Security News > 2021 > March > Like a challenge in a high profile 'face-of-IT' role? Welcome to the Home Office

For the brave - or perhaps foolhardy - senior IT jobs hunters there is an opening at the UK Home Office for a Deputy Director of IT Operations in a lovely '70s era highrise in Croydon.

In September, as chief digital, data and technology officer at the Home Office, Joanna Davinson told Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee that delays to the troubled Emergency Services Network would create additional annual costs "In the ballpark" of £550m "Across the whole of the legacy estate".

According to the job blurb, the Home Office Deputy Director of IT Operations will play a "Critical role in providing digital, data and technology services at the Home Office, supporting vital national infrastructure and Home Office services."

The person in the role, the ad said, is supposed to support a user-base of more than 35,000 Home Office staff, as well as more than 400 public-facing services used by millions, and diverse critical business areas including UK Visa & Immigration, Border Force, HMPO and policing.

They will "Ensure that the Home Office delivers to cost and quality standards, managing risks and dependencies across multiple teams."

It is a good job the Home Office bigwigs are looking to hire someone "Highly focused on delivering" because the individual will also be expected to be the "Face and voice" of IT Operations within the organisation, championing the function across the Digital Data and Technology group, the Home Office and wider government.

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