This is a Nationally based role.

The successful candidate will:

• Make sure services designed to meet user needs and be iteratively improved over time are at the heart of the MoJ’s interaction with both citizens and businesses.
• Support the flexible, cost-effective transformation of the department’s technology estate to leverage agile development techniques, open-source solutions and open standards to deliver solutions that support digital services.
• Build, lead and inspire a community of technical specialists and will make sure our services come together as a coherent whole.
• Work with the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and other government departments to exchange best practice, develop cross-government strategic direction and deploy shared services.
• Be flexible and responsive by reducing our reliance on legacy technology and automating where it is right to do so.
• Identify, experiment with, and create demand for emerging technologies and innovation that help the organisation to deliver policy and outcomes.
• Build strategic, collaborative and constructive relationships with key stakeholders, suppliers and justice partners to drive maximum success.
• Improve core technical competencies such as enterprise, solution, data, cyber security and business architecture.
• Be a visible leader across MoJ and government, promoting agile and user-centric product development best practice.
• Oversee a complex budget, ensuring value for money for the taxpayer.

Our vision is a simpler, faster, and better justice system which can adapt and respond to changing needs and the role of Chief Technology Officer will play a critical part in helping us to achieve this vision. If you feel that you can add real value to taxpayers, have a passion for protecting the public, reducing reoffending and delivering swift access to justice, we would love to hear from you.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) . See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality Requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service