The department for home affairs is seeking a manager to take on oversight of the organisation’s enterprise IT, including major platforms, as well as tens of thousands of staff devices

The Home Office is offering a six-figure salary for a senior leader to manage hundreds of the department’s core IT systems – including numerous pieces of critical national infrastructure.

According to the job advert, the post of director, enterprise services is “a highly impactful role [which] is responsible for overseeing the appropriate strategy, standards, controls and policies” of IT infrastructure throughout the Home Office.

The chosen applicant will lead an organisation of about 2,000 people – including 1,200 contractors and 800 in-house officials – and manage a yearly budget of £500m.

Under the watch of the successful candidate will be “over 700 of the department’s key IT platforms, including 11 critical national Infrastructure systems, and their supporting platforms and infrastructure”.

Among the postholder’s responsibilities will be managing the provision of 65,000 laptops and 30,000 smartphones provided to staff.

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“The director, ES also has overall responsibility for the 24/7/365 operational management and successful sustainment of all enterprise services managed IT systems and tools,” the advert adds. “The director… also oversees the Home Office Data Services and Analytics functions, bringing together Home Office data with data from other government departments, public agencies, industry partners (air, rail and maritime passenger and freight carriers) to support a wide range of important Home Office use-cases.”

Alongside the specific demands related to platforms and devices, the Home Office picks out six general areas that represent the “key responsibilities” of the job: strategic planning; service quality; service delivery; technology delivery; stakeholder engagement; and team leadership and development.

The advert says: “The director, ES is responsible for developing, implementing and delivering the strategic direction of the Home Office enterprise-wide IT platforms and ensuring their stability, resilience and performance. The role is critical to the efficient and effective delivery of all Home Office IT services overseen by DDaT enterprise services.”

The role offers an annual salary of between £125,000 and £145,000 and will be based in Croydon, London, Manchester, or Sheffield.

Applications are open until 11:55pm on 16 March.