Role -Delivery Lead
Client - TPR
Target start date - 2025-07-28
Salary / Benefits - 63-75k


Describe the role / what they will do? -
Use Lean Agile to build new teams out. Work with Data engineers on Data platform on Azure. Recently launched DDAT and data strategies. Following international equivalents of TPR like Australia's version. Creating internal and external-facing data market places. Really good bunch of guys in the team. Know their onions but have a laugh etc. Want a self-starter. Will onboard and then want to be self-motivated to pick up tasks. Work on OKRs - a better version of KPIs - great to find people with exp of OKR frameworks. Data product experience helpful. Chance to make a real difference, work with a great team - great bunch of guys Grade 6 role - senior Backfill Alan Groves who is moving to another area of the business. allan.groves@tpr.gov.uk


Team size / Structure -
No managing - work with data engineering team to begin with but this team likely to split to 2 as so much work. Will work with both teams.


Onsite requirements - 6 days per month in Brighton

Essential skills / experience -
Agile and ideally data product experience. Senior. Confident presenter. Power point skills useful.


Any nice to haves? - Technical experience or certifications?
Data Product experience would be very much preferred. Agile or scrum great but less Matt not too fussed on certs. Want the demonstrable exp.


Level in career? -
Want lots of experience, senior person.


Clearance or vetting requirements? -
BPSS eligible


Interview process / Who involved? - CVs to Matt first, usual CC rec - WC 30th June for interviews.

How long recruiting / challenges? -
New role

• Andy is retiring – Product Owner

• TPR does 2 scheme returns. Gather from schemes and analysing to make sure they pay out

• Liase with different depts in DDaT – being the middle person for resources on scheme returns

• Implement new data and new questions – what needs to be include twice a year

• Defeined benefit in Feb, most are DC pensions in the summer

• Batch pulling of data is a bit hold school. Regulator wants to gather on keys things rather than data churn

• Defines what delivery team until releases

• Existing service built around legislation

• In line with contractor role – shift and transform

• Trying to move towards and over arching strategy – change customer and user perspectice. Put more through the scheme return.

• Pensions acumnen – mini CEO & CIO

• Bring in product knowledge – a lot of SME knowledge to build stakeholder network. Build knowledge of the industry

• Experience of managing and guiding would be great – that would be helpful

• It’s an aspiration to manage others

• Digital products – appreciate of how data is pulled in a modern way. Knowledge of API’s

• Front end, back end, server side, API’s, understand integrations

• More customer facing services and applications that link in to it

• Need to have data and technical conversation

• Someone in the ordenance survery – how you bring data in and manipulate it – that would work. Not finance or pensions

Role Briefing with: Simon Kellow

Date: 27.03.2025

Recruiter: CJ

TEAM PURPOSE: Cyber Security Team, (still quite new after they have broken away from the Infrastructure team and are now a team in their own right.  Previously the Cyber Security function was covered by the Infrastructure team.

TEAM STRUCTURE:

Report to Simon:

2 x Cyber Engineers – Grade 7 (new roles)

2 x Senior Cyber Analyst – Grade 8

1 x Cyber Analyst – Grade 9 (lowest)

ROLE LOCATION:  Brighton 6 days per month (Every Monday in the office and every 2^nd and 4^th Thursday) for team meetings.  30/40 miles of Brighton can work.

ROLE SALARY: £55,504 – 62,671 + on-call + Pension etc.

The salary stated is the bottom to the mid-range, can offer anywhere on this scale.

Flexi time – up to 2 days per month can be takes as flexi time holiday if you accrue hours.  Which means an extra 24 days holiday per year potentially!

On-call means going onto the rota – you get £150 – 200 per week for being on the rota.  There are very few calls if any each week if you are on the rota, (24 hours).  If you are on the rota and a call comes in – the call is redirected to you.  In the event that you take a call then you can build your flexi-time as well.

HOURS: 37 + flexi time arrangement.

ROLE SUMMARY:

Create and document Cyber security architecture (inline with technology roadmap)

Reporting on cyber security issues

Assist with cyber security planning – collaboratively at team meetings

Provide guidance on Cyber security on escalated tickets, (tickets are escalated to the Cyber security team if relevant)Support Cyber governance

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE:

• Hands on individual, a do-er !!
• Solid career, (6+ years) in infrastructure, (perhaps network or systems engineer) and then gone into cyber security last 2/3 years.
• Strong Vulnerability Management tools experience, Cyber security skills essentials Azure Security Centre, Defender and Sentinel

As much of the following as possible:

• Broad infrastructure background across PaaS and IaaS and Virtual machine tech, Azure networking, SQL services, Azure AD etc.
• Windows Endpoints and servers, Cisco firewalls etc.  Network architecture.
• Cyber certifications great but not essential
• Power BI or similar for reporting – great but not essential.

TEAM CULTURE: Great team, supportive.  Meetings Monday and Thursdays to build team knowledge and encourage ideas.  Also, team learning events, ie they are all attending a major cyber security event in London in a few weeks to attend conferences and meet vendors.

WHAT's EXCITING ABOUT THIS ROLE:

• Great team!
• Lots of opportunity for personal development and training
• Ideas encouraged

CV SUBMISSION PROCESS:

Role will go live on the TPR site 28.03.2025

Submit CV's to Simon:  PLease ask all candiates the following question and include their answer on the cover sheet. 

Q.  You’re looking at a Vulnerability Report and there is a Level 2 Severity that’s been around since 2022 and a Level 5 Severity that’s been around for the last 10 days.  The device you’re seeing it on does not have any internet access.  What is the priority of resolution?

2 stages MS Teams interview with Simon.

Feedback for all candidates will be 14.04.2025

2^nd and finals will be w/c16th and 17^th April