Head of Systems Quality - HM Land Registry - G6

Location

Birkenhead, North West England, CH41 6DU : Croydon, London (region), CR0 2AQ : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Durham, North East England, DH1 5TR : Weymouth, South West England, DT4 9TT : Gloucester, South West England, GL1 1DQ : Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and the Humber, HU2 8JN : Leicester, East Midlands (England), LE3 5DR : Nottingham, East Midlands (England), NG2 1AW : Peterborough, East of England, PE1 1QF : Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS : Warton, North West England, PR4 1TE : Swansea, Wales, SA7 9FQ : Telford, West Midlands (England), TF3 4LR

About the job

Job summary

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. 

HM Land Registry's existing software systems and services form part of the critical national infrastructure, safeguarding land and property ownership valued at £7 trillion. This enables over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales.

We now have an exciting opportunity to join HM Land Registry (HMLR) on a fixed term appointment for 2 years as the Head of Systems Quality.

Check out the video below to find out what it is like working in in our Transformation and Technology Directorate.

Job description

As the Head of Systems Quality you will provide strategic leadership for quality engineering across HMLR’s digital services, establishing technical standards and frameworks that ensure reliable, secure and maintainable systems. You will oversee quality practices across development teams and domains and drive consistency in how HMLR builds and tests its systems while enabling teams to meet their unique service delivery needs.

With senior responsibility for quality across HMLR’s diverse technology estate, from traditional register systems to modern digital services, you will establish organisation-wide quality governance and growing technical testing capability, to ensure HMLR’s systems maintain public trust while enabling rapid delivery of secure, high-quality digital services.

For further information about the role, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you must have significant experience in quality engineering roles, including leading and influencing organisation-wide testing practices. You will be an expert in understanding modern testing approaches and frameworks and have a strong background in test automation at enterprise scale. With demonstrable success in building and leading communities of practice while developing quality engineering capability through coaching development, you will also have a track record of establishing quality governance frameworks and managing risks that balance delivery velocity with control.

With a history of driving cultural change and continuous improvement in quality practices across multiple organisational areas, you will be experienced in integrating quality into agile delivery methods and establishing technical testing infrastructure and tools at scale, with a strong background in test design and coverage approaches.

You must also have proven ability to influence and align diverse stakeholder groups around quality approaches and demonstrable experience in building effective professional networks and partnerships across technical and business domains.

Due to the nature of the role, occasional travel to other HMLR/ government/ external locations, including overnight stays where necessary, will be required. This role does not currently include participation in a permanent on-call rota, however you will occasionally be required to make yourself available for short periods of on-call, when an appropriate allowance will be paid. These occasions will coincide with specific operational occurrences. The role may also require occasional planned out of hours working in order to deal with IT changes and maintenance.

Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big Picture
Making Effective Decisions
Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Developing Self and Others