Essential Skills & Experience required:

As the Lead Technologist you will possess the following:

• Experience supporting the setting and delivery on a vision and leading digital and data change, with specific focus on service and technology modernisation
• Experience designing and building technology and be able to use this to build credibility with others, evaluate proposals and decide an execution approach
• Proficient in engaging with suppliers/vendors both formally and informally
• Create written content and present to senior stakeholders, both technical (such as CTOs / CDOs across Government) and non-technical
• Be keen to share your learning with those around you through coaching and mentoring
• Understand the opportunities and issues delivering digital services and/or technology in government and the wider public sector

T Technical skills

• You will be at the top skill levels in your Digital & Data specialism, most likely from the Architecture group, with experience across Data, IT Operations or Software Development.
• Also hold relevant industry certifications eg: AWS or MS Azure

Possess on premise application modernisation, which range across any technology provider, taking old legacy and re-purposing for public cloud

Understand dependencies of operational support and commercial process for outsourcing

End to end lifecycle management and legacy modernisation

Experience of leading end-to-end technology and/or digital service modernisation

Technical skills  - nice to have would be any Oracle, VMWare or Hyper-V

Agile delivery

An understanding of Government commercial framework