Lead the way in modernising Parliament and bringing it to more people through the power of digital. Heading up the Platforms directorate, this role will be accountable for the provision of secure, robust, and modern platform services enabling Parliament to realise the benefits of digital technology. You will ensure that the digital platforms provided are in line with the Digital Strategy and enable the Houses to achieve their business needs and priorities.

• the critical shared services and core technologies delivered by the Platforms team which are central to the delivery of all digital services in Parliament.
• leading and supporting a move to product centric ways of working, to ensure plans are in place for ongoing lifecycle management, to reduce, remove and prevent technical debt.
• through your leadership, defining standards of excellence across all areas of delivery, including user experience, accessibility, availability, cyber security, and operational performance to provide a high-quality service evidenced against agreed measures and benchmarking.
• Being responsible for capacity planning for the Platforms and the digital services it operates.
• developing and continually maintaining a documented digital roadmap for all platform services used by Parliament, in line with the direction provided by the overarching Digital and emerging Technology and requirements of the services and products operating on them.

• a proven track record of delivering successful digital platform services with an ability to show strong credentials in cloud computing, infrastructure, third-party solutions, and managed service providers.
• a highly effective leader with strong stakeholder management skills and able to demonstrate how you have translated business requirements and user/stakeholder needs into effective work plans and practical working solutions within a complex matrix managed organisation.
• extensive experience in managing all aspects of the digital platforms’ lifecycle to reduce technical debt and mitigate risk.
• be a strategic thinker with the ability to solve complex problems and plan across multiple time horizons to ensure the team and products under your control continue to support the needs of end users, colleagues and partner organisations
• proven experience of procurement, supplier selection, and contract management, delivering to service level agreements and agreed KPIs (key performance indicators) while also ensuring highly effective management of resources and budgets to achieve financial targets.
• the ability to pass security clearance, backed by the right to work in the UK