Treasury seeks leader for Data Hub


Government’s finance department is recruiting for a new chief data officer who will also take on responsibility for leading a facility dedicated to overseeing data management and fostering advanced analytics

HM Treasury is recruiting for a leader for its Data Hub, a specialist facility which aims to grow high-end data science skills among the finance department’s 400 analysts.

The department is recruiting for a new chief data officer, a role which also comes with responsibility for leading the Data Hub which, according to the job advert, “is transforming how the Treasury uses data across its entire business”. In doing so, the hub is delivering data science training to “the 400-strong analytical community in the department with the aim of improving HMT’s economics analysis and policy”.

“Leading the hub will provide a unique opportunity to shape change with lasting influence on HMT’s analytical capability for years to come,” the advert says. “With your stewardship, the hub will provide strategic coordination and support to teams across the department to all them both better exploit data automation as well as bring data science to bear on new and novel data sources.”

The hub operates across two core branches, respectively covering: data management; and advanced analytics.

The remit of the former is to “drive best practice [in] data management” across the department, and overseee a “corporate data and analytics infrastructure based on Microsoft Fabric and Azure”. Key objectives for this unit in the coming months include “enhancing the existing data strategy with a focus on developing a roadmap of data assets, introducing a lightweight data catalogue, and continuing to invest in our corporate data warehouse”.


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The analytics function, meanwhile, “focuses on providing data science expertise through project delivery, capability investment and enhancing our analytic support for policy decisions”, the advert says.

It adds: “Examples of work within the branch include developing an AI-ensemble method to automate the allocation and response choice for inbound correspondence, using artificial intelligence to improve how we develop a cashflow forecast for government transactions, and working on novel analysis to better understand effects of preventative spending.”

Going forward, this team will be tasked with “identifying and delivery [of] advanced analytic opportunity specifically aligned to policy challenge, [and] communicate benefits in a non-technical way and introducing governance across groups to promote those opportunities around HMT”.

The post as data head comes with a salary of between £75,000 and £90,000, and applications are open until 11.55m on 30 July. The successful candidate will be based at government’s Economic Campus in Darlington.

“As chief data officer you will model and champion data management and the value of data science to the department,” the job ad says. “You will engage with leaders to elicit, initiate, and lead projects with high policy priority and analytical value to realise efficiency and value-add through automation of repeated tasks. Through the role you will have a unique opportunity to build on established foundations that will drive how data is used across the department to support development of policy and decisions on public spending. The department has a mission focussed appetite for innovation and warrants an ambitious, energetic person to drive out benefit.”

Sam Trendall

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