Chief Technology Officer - CPS - SCS1

Location

Birmingham, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Canterbury, Cardiff, Eastleigh, Exeter, Guildford, Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Mold, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Preston, Reading, Sheffield, St Albans, Stoke-on-Trent, Swansea, Truro, Wakefield, Warrington, York

About the job

Job summary

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is pleased to announce the opportunity to apply for the position of Chief Technology Officer.

The CPS sits at the heart of the criminal justice system (CJS), working with partners to help keep the public safe. We prosecute criminal cases that have been investigated by the police and other investigative organisations in England and Wales. Our duty is to make sure that the right person is prosecuted for the right offence, and to bring offenders to justice wherever possible. These offences include all types of serious crime including murder, rape, burglary, terrorism, domestic abuse and multi-million-pound fraud cases. We also work across borders to tackle cybercrime, human trafficking, and drugs smuggling, and use our powers to confiscate the proceeds of crime at home and abroad.

You can find out more about our role on our website: 

About CPS , The Crown Prosecution Service

This position can be based in any CPS area, Regular travel to these locations, particularly London, will be required (Link to CPS Offices).

Job description

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the organisation's technology strategist. The CTO makes decisions about the technical direction of the organisation and works closely with other senior leaders.

The role involves working closely with service owners & users, commercial teams and financial teams to support all technology procurement activities. This includes leading and contributing to business requirements within tender documents, assessing suppliers and bids and supporting the end-to-end procurement process.

You will sit on or chair relevant technology governance forums including the organisation’s Technical Design Authority (TDA) along with contributing to internal and wider technology government forums, committees and boards. You may be required to act as SRO or adviser on large technology programmes.

Person specification

Candidates must be able to clearly demonstrate evidence of the following essential criteria that will be used to assess your application :

Essential Criteria:

Proven track record of setting and delivering a clear technology vision and strategy aligned with organisational priorities, ensuring technology and architecture enables business transformation and improved user services. 
Significant experience of building and leading high-performing enterprise architecture, cloud platform, IT operations and engineering teams within large-scale complex organisations. 
Strong track record of building and running enterprise IT services to high levels of performance and user-satisfaction within complex 24/7/365 operating environments. 
Adept at building strong trusted relationships, with senior stakeholder's examples include Executive Teams and Non-Executive Teams along with building professional networks that benefit the wider organisation. 
Strong track record of building, leading and motivating diverse technology teams at scale, including suppliers and partners with proven experience of developing capability across DDaT profession with a strong focus on user-centred design, agile and product focused approaches.  
Demonstrable experience in ensuring technology systems are cyber secure, compliant and resilient to threats in hostile environments. 
Manage large technology contracts and fostering effective partnerships, and the delivery of value for money through commercial.