Role: Principal Technologist
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Hybrid/London, Bristol or Manchester - Candidates based in the London office are expected to be onsite two days each week. Those located outside London should attend their local office once per week and be willing to travel into London 2–4 days per month (Potentially overnight to save extensive travel time for those based further afield).
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £775 - £800 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Principal Technologist for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGIST
- Set a clear 10 year intent and strategy for your aligned technology domain, including how it contributes to reducing and preventing legacy IT, and secure endorsement from senior stakeholders.
- Identify, develop and promote principles, standards and best practice for managing and remediating legacy technology, or convene and lead cross government groups of technologists to create these where they do not yet exist.
- Work with suppliers to maximise their offer to the UK public sector, including new and more effective approaches to legacy remediation, and partner with the Government Commercial Function on strategic and complex commercial engagements.
- Build and maintain a strong network of senior technical and delivery peers across the UK public sector to support shared problem solving on legacy IT and broader technology challenges.
- Promote the team’s work through GOV.UK content, speaking engagements and the delivery of community and supplier events.
- Help upskill public sector organisations in your specialist area, including improving capability to manage, modernise and avoid creating new legacy systems.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGIST
- You must have experience setting a vision and leading digital and data change
- You must have experience designing and building technology and be able to use this to build credibility with others, evaluate proposals and decide an execution approach
- You should have experience engaging with suppliers/vendors both formally and informally
- Communication in this role is key: you should be comfortable in creating written content and presenting to senior stakeholders, both technical (such as CTOs / CDOs across Government) and non-technical (including ministers and permanent secretaries)
- Learning should be embedded in the way you approach your working week, and you should be keen to share your learning with those around you through coaching and mentoring
- You should be at the top skill levels in your Digital & Data specialism, most likely from the Architecture, Data, IT Operations or Software Development groups.
- You should hold relevant industry certifications for your technical specialism.
If you are a Principal Technologist, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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