Head of Digital Futures
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £73,194 i £82,293 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 1 diwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Northumbria Police |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | JRN 31062 |
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Salary: Band 13, £73,194 - £82,293
Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: Full time, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Digital Department as a Head of Digital Futures.
Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and serving as a key member of the Digital Policing Senior Management team, the Head of Digital Futures will spearhead the strategic vision and implementation of digital transformation within the Force. This role involves leading a team of IT professionals and overseeing all aspects of Architecture, Engineering, Development, and Planning & Technical Delivery.
The Head of Digital Futures is crucial to the continuous enhancement and modernization of the Force's technology landscape. This includes comprehensive oversight across all architecture domains, ensuring alignment with local and national standards. The role also involves establishing and continuously improving design principles, measuring compliance, and shaping the future architecture to meet strategic goals.
What you’ll do
Formulate and implement component-level strategies supporting the DDaT Strategy, aligned with the Force's Vision, Values, and national strategic landscape.
• Ensure Portfolio Delivery Plans meet both current and future Force requirements, fostering sustained growth and innovation.
• Actively engage in and contribute to national programs and IT initiatives, aligning with organizational goals and fostering technological innovation and excellence.
• Offer comprehensive internal consultancy, providing expert advice to support and guide Force Change programs for strategic alignment and effective implementation.
• Provide visionary leadership to foster a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, and transformative change.
• Serve as a mentor and coach to develop digital and business acumen among team members, equipping them to meet evolving policing demands.
• Ensure solutions comply with relevant regulations and standards, including data protection and cybersecurity, by identifying and mitigating risks through regular risk assessments and appropriate controls.
What you’ll bring
• The ideal candidate will possess excellent technical, analytical, and project management skills, with proven experience in leading architecture teams, preferably within a policing or public sector environment. You should be educated to degree level or have equivalent relevant experience and have a strong understanding of ITIL and other service and quality management frameworks. Additionally, you should have knowledge of digital transformation and continual delivery techniques, along with proven experience in business analysis, solution optioneering, and solution design.
• Demonstrable experience in influencing and stakeholder management, ability to persuade effectively at various organisational levels, good understanding of IT service delivery and project management, and experience in partnership working.
• Ability to see the strategic landscape, exploit opportunities for both technology and the wider organisation, and engage in enterprise-level solution optioneering and design.
• Evidence of creativity and innovation, excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, and line management experience with both fixed and dynamic teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to adapt materials to resonate with multiple stakeholders, and influence senior stakeholders to gain buy-in and adoption of enterprise architecture principles and their value.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Paul Mclauchlin, Chief Technology Officer by email at paul.mclauchlin@northumbria.police.uk
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of Head of Digital Futures with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: Full time, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Digital Department as a Head of Digital Futures.
Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and serving as a key member of the Digital Policing Senior Management team, the Head of Digital Futures will spearhead the strategic vision and implementation of digital transformation within the Force. This role involves leading a team of IT professionals and overseeing all aspects of Architecture, Engineering, Development, and Planning & Technical Delivery.
The Head of Digital Futures is crucial to the continuous enhancement and modernization of the Force's technology landscape. This includes comprehensive oversight across all architecture domains, ensuring alignment with local and national standards. The role also involves establishing and continuously improving design principles, measuring compliance, and shaping the future architecture to meet strategic goals.
What you’ll do
Formulate and implement component-level strategies supporting the DDaT Strategy, aligned with the Force's Vision, Values, and national strategic landscape.
• Ensure Portfolio Delivery Plans meet both current and future Force requirements, fostering sustained growth and innovation.
• Actively engage in and contribute to national programs and IT initiatives, aligning with organizational goals and fostering technological innovation and excellence.
• Offer comprehensive internal consultancy, providing expert advice to support and guide Force Change programs for strategic alignment and effective implementation.
• Provide visionary leadership to foster a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, and transformative change.
• Serve as a mentor and coach to develop digital and business acumen among team members, equipping them to meet evolving policing demands.
• Ensure solutions comply with relevant regulations and standards, including data protection and cybersecurity, by identifying and mitigating risks through regular risk assessments and appropriate controls.
What you’ll bring
• The ideal candidate will possess excellent technical, analytical, and project management skills, with proven experience in leading architecture teams, preferably within a policing or public sector environment. You should be educated to degree level or have equivalent relevant experience and have a strong understanding of ITIL and other service and quality management frameworks. Additionally, you should have knowledge of digital transformation and continual delivery techniques, along with proven experience in business analysis, solution optioneering, and solution design.
• Demonstrable experience in influencing and stakeholder management, ability to persuade effectively at various organisational levels, good understanding of IT service delivery and project management, and experience in partnership working.
• Ability to see the strategic landscape, exploit opportunities for both technology and the wider organisation, and engage in enterprise-level solution optioneering and design.
• Evidence of creativity and innovation, excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, and line management experience with both fixed and dynamic teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to adapt materials to resonate with multiple stakeholders, and influence senior stakeholders to gain buy-in and adoption of enterprise architecture principles and their value.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Paul Mclauchlin, Chief Technology Officer by email at paul.mclauchlin@northumbria.police.uk
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of Head of Digital Futures with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
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