The Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) professions enable the Home Office to keep the UK safe and secure, protect the borders while enabling legitimate movement, prevent crime, and counter national security threats. They do this by designing, building, and running the services that help people apply for visas or passports, and which support policing and counter-terrorism operations, and protect the UK’s borders.
Within DDaT, Data Services & Analytics (DSA) is one of the most advanced data analytics centres in Government. DSA sits at the heart of the Home Office’s transformation into a data driven department. DSA leads the way in Government in getting strategic value from data and in the application of data analytic techniques to real Government problems. DSA designs, builds and operates innovative data insight services that are critical in helping the department achieve its mission. You will be responsible for business-critical products which are used every day across the Home Office. Our success depends on our ability to exploit the latest technologies to create world class solutions whilst ensuring they are secure and resilient and constantly meet the changing needs of users.
This is an exciting time to work for the Home Office as we develop some of the most challenging and transformative technology projects the department has ever seen. You’ll have a chance to shape the future and support our goal to provide exceptional services for everyone.
We value people : We value everyone’s skills and provide a creative and supportive environment to help you do your best work. We want the best people to come to the Home Office and work in the diverse roles and communities they’re passionate about. This is how we produce exceptional outcomes.
Career framework : The Home Office has created a government-leading bespoke career framework that enables career planning, while ensuring our people can be the best they can be. The framework includes Heads of Role, who are industry specialists. They build communities, set standards for what ‘good’ looks like, and ensure we have the right people in the right jobs at the right time.
Professions : We also have a profession management unit, which aims to provide the best professional experience to all our technical staff with a real passion for continuous professional development. We invest heavily in our people as part of growing our collective capability.
You can keep up to date with our work on the Home Office DDaT blog
A Senior Product Manager will use their knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame and solve problems and set priorities for delivery teams. You will be responsible for the overall vision and quality of the product being delivered, set its roadmap and lead the delivery team.
Senior Product Managers in DSA use their knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame and solve problems and set priorities for delivery teams. You will be responsible for the overall vision and quality of a product or set of products being delivered by DSA.
Our work is guided by these fundamental principles:
* Put user needs first.
* Delivery and outcomes over process.
* Make the most of openness: open standards, open source, open data and open markets.
Broadly, our products fall into a small number of categories:
* Products which support ‘intelligence’ operations and allow users to match data sets together, search data, uncover patterns in data and visualize networks of connections and activity.
* Products which process high volumes of (usually casework) data and apply machine learning rules or policy-led rules or a combination to rank the data against a set of pre-agreed criteria in order to assist operational decision-making.
* Products which provide reporting, either matching and aggregating data and performing statistical and other analysis on the data to provide management information, or filtering out record-level data according to complex rules for some business action.
Products which use innovative data science techniques, for example, to analyse text or geo-data for patterns and trends.
Some of the products you may be responsible for are established and are delivering value to their customers. It is vital that these continue to be delivered and maintained and also that the way in which these products are architected, developed and delivered is revisited as part of a strategic review of these products’ roadmaps and visions, and to ensure the continued growth of these services in DSA.
You will identify opportunities for improving business outcomes and enhancing benefits, looking to continuously improve the quality, capability and efficiency of your products. You will have the final say on quality and whether something is ready to be released into production. You may be asked either to be responsible for a single, complex, large product, or multiple related products.
In addition, you may line manage, coach and mentor Associate Product Managers and Product Managers, and be involved in recruitment related processes.
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