As a Lead Technology Delivery Manager, you will be accountable for the performance of multiple teams working to deliver technology products and services. You will set up your teams for success and represent them to stakeholders and suppliers, building successful relationships across and beyond the organisation. You will find and remove blockers and inefficiencies, using data to continually encourage better ways of working within and between teams, leading to better outcomes.
As a leader in the Home Office Technology Delivery community, you'll share knowledge and experience with colleagues across the department and wider Government, building skills, advising others, and applying good practice and standards. You will support the UK's security and prosperity through the products and services that your teams deliver.
Migration and Borders Technology Portfolio (MBTP)
is part of the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Directorate in the Home Office. MBTP is a Portfolio of around 3,500 dedicated professionals made up of civil servants and suppliers working together to develop some of the most challenging and transformative technology products, supporting critical programmes within the Migration and Borders system. Working closely with colleagues in the Migration and Borders mission, we also support a number of the Home Office's capabilities such as Customer Services, Immigration Enforcement and Border Force. We jointly design services, build, run and sustain them to enable some of the government's most important strategic outcomes, notably the legitimate movement of people and goods to support economic prosperity.
We're recruiting Digital, Data and Tech professionals to join the Home Office, working in a wide range of roles. Watch this video to hear from members of the team talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here.
What you will do
* Take responsibility for delivery of technology products and services across multiple teams, facilitating and coaching in the most appropriate methodologies for complex, ambiguous situations. Facilitate structured approaches to problem-solving and opposing user needs, continuously improving processes and performance.
* Lead delivery within cost and time constraints, ensuring that realistic plans are maintained. Ensure regular, accurate communication with stakeholders and engagement with appropriate governance.
* Develop and bring together motivated, functioning teams, empowering cross-team collaboration and joined-up delivery. Monitor the health of interactions between teams and resolve issues.
* Ensure that risks are identified, their impact and probability are understood, and mitigations are in place, involving specialists where necessary.
* Identify and understand stakeholder groups and their needs. Develop stakeholder engagement strategies and plans and lead teams in executing them.
* Work proactively with suppliers involved in delivery, monitoring their performance, and collaborating to resolve issues. Help to improve supplier management processes.
What you will bring
You'll have a demonstrable passion for delivery with the following skills or some experience in:
* Leading teams in different delivery approaches, such as Agile and Waterfall, guiding them in implementing the most appropriate methodology for the situation, while continuously reflecting and challenging them to inspect and improve processes.
* Facilitating the delivery of technology products and services throughout their lifecycle, across multiple teams.
* Bringing teams together to work towards common goals, identifying and rectifying issues in the links between them.
* Identifying, prioritising, and managing risks, issues and dependencies.
* Leading teams in understanding and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders, managing stakeholder expectations, resolving issues and improving relationships.
* Engaging with suppliers, monitoring their performance, and resolving problems.
Why join us
* Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
* Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King's Birthday.
* Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
* Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
* Recognition and inclusion: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.
* Learn more about our Benefits - Home Office Careers