Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION\n\nVetting Level\n\nDeveloped Vetting (DV) and Management Vetting (MV) = DV(Enhanced)\n\nSTRAP Required\n\nYes - TS/TK STRAP\n\nJob Summary\n\nThe CTP Customer Service Centre (CSC) is located close to Birmingham Airport and the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) and provides IT support nationwide; to policing as well as other partner agencies, on a 24/7 basis. As a proven centre of excellence, aligned to ITIL best practices, the Application and Data functions have been developed and invested in heavily over the last few years. Now, due to a promotion, the department seeks to recruit a new Applications and Data Teams Manager.\n\nAs Applications and Data Teams Manager you will be supporting a catalogue of national application services that are mission critical to Counter Terrorism Policing.
You will be responsible for line managing a diverse teams of Application Analysts, Engineers and SQL DBA's working on a variety of incidents, problems, changes, releases and patches. You will be performing regular 121's and setting work prioritisation with our teams, both in Birmingham and London.\n\nThe role will require you from time to time to get technically hands on, so someone coming from a technical background is ideal. As is someone who has a demonstrable experience of line managing diverse groups of practitioners.\n\nThe role holder will be required to engage with a wide array of stakeholders, representing Applications and Data in engagements with suppliers, and business groups across the organisation.
You will also be involved in projects, helping to ensure the smooth transition of new services from project to business as usual (BAU) support.\n\nThis role requires a flexible working approach and may be required to travel to sites around the UK as appropriate.\n\nKey Tasks\n\nThe post holder will be required to do the following:\n\nProvide line management, mentorship and leadership to the Applications and Data Teams based at the CSC and CTOC\nEnsure that BAU workloads are actively managed and prioritized in accordance to agreed service levels and ITIL best practice\nRepresent the Applications and Data Teams at meetings, working groups, supplier reviews, project boards etc.\nLiaise with stakeholders from across the business and be able to relay technical solutions with clarity and minimal jargon to a diverse audience\nRepresent the function on the CSC Senior Management Team (SMT) and join the Management On Call roster to provide an out of hours escalation point to the business for service issues\nRegularly liaise with the other managers of the CSC SMT, ensuring that the teams are collaborating and working efficiently and effectively in providing an end to end support service with other support functions\nAct as a point of contact and subject matter expert at the change advisory board and other governance exchanges to ensure conformity and oversight of technical work that may adversely affect or impact supported applications\nDevise critical success factors, key performance indicators and other suitable metrics for the department and produce useful reports for stakeholders to demonstrate the output, performance and value of the function\nProvide application expertise and advice to both BAU functions and Projects to ensure objectives are being met in line with National CT priorities\nWorking in conjunction with key stakeholders to create and continually maintain a comprehensive documentation set to ensure the department can adequately support BAU services in a consistent manner\nAssist with resilience and failover testing to ensure that all CSC managed infrastructure applications are tested and documented on a regular basis to ensure failover functions as designed and is predicable\nProactively monitor Application tools to ensure availability, capacity and performance is acceptable and raise any related concerns to senior management as appropriate\nEnsure Change and Release management process and procedures are adhered to and correct process is followed to mitigate against unplanned downtime and service outages\nEnsure CSC Infrastructure standards are followed to ensure new and existing services implemented in a standard nature and scalable in approach\nEnsure security accreditation and procedure is not compromised by ensuring all activities comply with relevant SyOPs and RMADS \n\nEssential Experience\n\nExperience in roles involving service management of high priority digital or technology services in a demanding operational environment;\nExperience of building and maintaining relationships with a range of business users and senior stakeholders in the context of service management of live IT services.\nExperience in roles managing commercial or internal suppliers and their performance against agreed contract requirements or Service Level Agreements;\nExcellent oral and written communication skills to ensure all stakeholders associated with the service maintain a clear understanding of the status of the service and associated tasks at all times.\nExperience working within a service based team monitoring components such as web servers, applications servers, log files, disk space and databases\nExperience of line management and leadership\nSolid understanding of the entire Application Lifecycle\nExperience of testing bug fixes and enhancements and involvement with release management\nExperience of raising support tickets and coordinating vendor support\nUnderstanding of ITIL process, incident management, change management and problem management including working to strict SLAs\nExperience of performing application upgrades, patches and failovers\nExperience of maintaining middleware, application hosting technologies and architecture, MS SQL, MySQL and other common database technologies, Active Directory, ASP and.NET including troubleshooting, performance tuning, basic queries and resolving bottlenecks)\nKnowledge of reporting and integration using query writing, power shell, java, JavaScript, HTML and SQL\nExperience of Linux operating systems, including shell script.\nKnowledge of Application firewalls and system component communication\nExperience of managing application backups and restores\nExperience of supporting COTS and WEB based software applications\nAbility to understand business logic, technical tools and be an analytic thinker\nStrong customer focus - understanding the needs of the internal and external customer and keeping them in mind when taking actions or making decisions\nStrong communication and interpersonal skills with an aptitude for communication complex technical issues to both peers and non-technical staff \n\nDesirable\n\nAn appreciation of the below (or similar): \nKubernetes and containerisation tooling (e.g. SUSE Rancher, RKE2, EKS, AKS, Yaml, Helm, Docker)\n.NET (C#, ASP.NET, .NET CORE) \nJavaScript (REACT, Bootstrap Frameworks, node.js) \nDatabases (SQL) \nNoSQL technologies e.g. Elasticsearch \n\nKnowledge of ITIL framework (preferably ITIL4 foundation qualified) and experience of applying and undertaking ITIL based service management activities including change management and incident management, acting as the main point of contact for senior stakeholders during major incidents\nExperience of Agile ways of working (SAFE Agile)\nPreferred experience within a secure police, defence or public sector environment