Overview
Strategic Capability Lead (Home Office Digital) - Product, Delivery & Architecture at UK Home Office
A Product Manager will use their knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame and tackle problems and set priorities for delivery teams. You will be responsible for the overall vision and quality of the product being delivered (sometimes in conjunction with a Senior or Lead Product Manager).
You will identify opportunities for improving business outcomes and enhancing benefits, looking to continuously improve the quality, capability and efficiency of your product. You will have the final say on quality and whether something is ready to be released into production. In addition, you will build a shared understanding between the development team, stakeholders and end users about what your product does and how it achieves the outcomes it needs to achieve.
As a Product Manager in Home Office Digital (HOD), you’ll be central to shaping digital services that support the Home Office’s mission. This role sits within the End User Compute and Collaboration portfolio, which delivers and supports essential services including devices, applications, voice, and email. You’ll join the Collaboration Tooling team, where the focus is on developing solutions using Microsoft 365 technologies - such as Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office apps - to meet real user and business needs.
You’ll work in an agile environment within a multifunctional delivery team and alongside stakeholders from across the Home Office, helping to turn complex challenges into intuitive, user-centred products. The team is collaborative and mission-driven, with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement and service excellence. You’ll be empowered to shape the product’s direction and supported by a wider product management community that values learning, innovation, and shared success. This is a role for someone who wants to make a tangible difference, delivering products that matter and contributing to the Home Office’s digital transformation.
We’re recruiting Digital, Data and Tech professionals to join the Home Office, working in a wide range of roles.
What You’ll do:
* Forming the vision for the product and engaging teams and stakeholders in the development of that vision over time.
* Producing roadmaps, release plans and lifecycle plans for the delivery and maintenance of the product from its inception right through to its retirement.
* Taking a product through its lifecycle (e.g. discovery, alpha, beta, live) including service assessments.
* Representing users throughout the delivery process and using their feedback to inform continuous improvement.
* Prioritising the work that needs to be done by the software development team by creating and maintaining a product backlog which balances immediate user needs with the long-term investment in development and overall business benefits.
* Providing final sign off on any completed functional development prior to deployment of code to the production environment.
* Using product or service usage data to devise new ideas for functionality or new ways of working with a continuous improvement mindset.
You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Product with the following skills or some experience in:
* Working in the delivery of technology or digital based projects.
* Decision-making skills, with an ability to digest information from a multitude of sources and use that to develop a prioritised plan of action.
* Strategic thinking skills with the ability to focus on outcomes rather than solutions and the ability to translate a vision into deliverable goals.
* Communicating using a variety of methods (written reports, verbal feedback, presentations etc.), applying the appropriate method to each scenario/audience, which at this level, will usually be on a one to one basis.
* Promoting the needs of the team, and of the product; understanding how these will vary depending on the different phases of a product lifecycle
At the Home Office, your work has real-world impact, shaping the safety and security of millions. We offer:
* Meaningful Work: Contribute to critical national security and public service initiatives.
* Career Growth: Benefit from tailored development frameworks and professional communities.
* Flexible Working: Balance your professional and personal life with hybrid work options.
* Diversity and Inclusion: Join a workplace where your unique background and talents are celebrated.
Benefits include:
* 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.
Additional Information: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years. Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor visas.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology and Product Management
Industries
* Government Administration, Technology, Information and Media, and IT System Design Services
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