Description
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.
Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:
- joining up public sector services
- harnessing the power of AI for the public good
- strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
- elevating leadership and investing in talent
- funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
- committing to transparency and driving accountability
The Government Data Team is helping transform how government manages, shares and uses data. We are building the foundations that enable data to be treated as a strategic asset across the public sector, including common standards, secure access models, interoperable data infrastructure and the capabilities needed to support AI and data-driven services.
As Head of Data Interoperability, you'll:
- lead the development and adoption of the patterns and technical approaches that enable organisations to share and use data consistently
- drive adoption of APIs, interoperable data exchange standards and federated data-sharing approaches across government
- build consensus and influence senior stakeholders to adopt common approaches to data sharing and interoperability
- work with architects, engineers and policy teams to deliver the foundations needed for modern public services and AI-enabled government
- play a leading role in delivering the UK Public Data Infrastructure vision and enabling trusted data sharing at scale
We're interested in people who:
- can turn data standards, API specifications and interoperability frameworks into practical approaches that delivery teams can adopt at scale
- have established data integration standards, design patterns or API architectures that enable secure and interoperable data sharing across organisational boundaries
- have successfully built consensus and driven the adoption of standards, mandates or common technical approaches across organisations and stakeholder groups
- can provide strategic leadership on complex interoperability challenges, identifying and describing problems, navigating trade-offs and providing technical assurance on complex integration and data-sharing designs
- can anticipate future developments in data interoperability, APIs and data-sharing technologies, and can advise on how to adopt new approaches to realise better value from data
Alongside your salary of £71,920, Government Digital Service contributes £20,835 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. There are many benefits of working at GDS, including:
- flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours
- a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
- 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days
- an extra day off for the King’s birthday
- an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance
- career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development
- a focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme
- job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK
- advances on pay, including for travel season tickets
- death in service benefits
- cycle to work scheme and facilities
- access to an employee discounts scheme
- 10 learning days per year
- volunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per year)
- access to a suite of learning activities through Civil Service learning