Deputy Director Cyber Security
Cabinet Office, Central London, UK from £700 to £900 per day
THIS CONTRACT WITH THE CABINET OFFICE - GOVERNMENT DIGITAL SERVICES (GDS) IS FOR 10 MONTHS PAYING UPTO £900 per day (INSIDE IR35) AT LONDON
THE ROLE REQUIRES THE CANDIDATE TO BE SC CLEARED, ANY APPLICANTS WHO ALREADY HOLD SC CLEARANCE WILL HAVE AN ADVANTAGE. (IDEALLY NEED DV CLEARED)
CV DEADLINE: Tuesday 18th December at 03:00 PM
Additional requirements:
As well as the original information provided they need someone at a director level, possessing leadership/managerial gravitas and experience, but technical as well. Specifically someone who has had exposure to cloud/digital services and has security experience.
Minimum Requirement:
Must have Government experience and have general Cyber security experience. Must also have experience working with high level managers..
Role:
1 - Manage and align all internal and external security-related activities across GDS, including standards, external engagements, strategy, governance, delivery, operations, security risk management, assurance of internal and external services, and physical and personnel security.
2 - Work with the Cabinet Office security team and the National Cyber Security Centre to ensure existing and emerging security principles and standards are reflected in the implementation of government digital transformation.
3 - Forge strong relationships with security and transformation leads across government to ensure aligned and compatible security approaches are adopted to all government transformational services.
4 - Ensure wider government is sufficiently aware of transformational security and counter-fraud issues through the Digital Academy.
5 - Build and mature security and fraud communities across government that focus on issues and solutions relating to transformation.
6 - Prioritise, manage and assure GDS security, cyber and counter-fraud work.
7 - Ensure GDS cross-government service and technology standards, architecture, models, patterns, principles, best practice, service assurance / compliance and spend controls reflect transformation security, cyber and counter-fraud needs.
8 - Ensure GDS work aligns with wider government security standards and reporting agenda, and influence the evolution of those standards to reflect transformation needs.
9 - Understand the key threats to transformed and transforming services across UK government departments, including those built and operated by GDS.
10 - Act as GDS’s Security Security Advisor, advising the GDS Director General, the GDS senior management team and the Government Chief Security Officer on security issues and remediation relating to GDS’s services and operations.
11 - Ensure services are developed to be safe and secure by design, including those services delivered by GDS, and any cross-government services sponsored by GDS that are developed by other departments.
12 - Ensure GDS has a mature and robust information assurance and security risk management regime, and manage ensuing security risks.
13 - Ensure the secure operation of GDS’ services is fit for purpose, including threat, intelligence, vulnerability and incident management, and be responsible for associated short-term and long-term remediation.
14 - Ensure mature physical, personnel and education / awareness security measures are in place.
15 - Ensure commercial and financial frameworks and GDS governance processes reflect transformational security, cyber and counter-fraud needs
More info of requirements:
1 - Managing the security of a digital & cyber-exposed business.
2 - Leading the security function of a large organisation with complex environments and services.
3 - Experience of strategic, development, delivery and operational security lifecycles relating directly to modern digital / cloud-based services and delivery processes (including agile)
4 - Working at board level in a security role.
5 - Senior stakeholder management.
6 - Understanding of security & risk management, including those relating to agile processes.
7 - Experience of engaging, advising and influencing at all levels of an organisation.
8 - Taking a cross-organisational approach, considering the impact of your decisions in the broadest of settings.
9 - Forming excellent relationships with the wider transformation & security community including the UK Security & Intelligence Communities.
10 - A background in understanding how cyber attacks & cyber fraud are practically carried out.
CV DEADLINE: Tuesday 18th December at 03:00 PM
.NET/SQL Developer
Anglo Technical Recruitment , Cardiff, UK to £390 per day
THIS CONTRACT WITH THE NHS IS INSIDE IR35 BASED IN CARDIFF FOR 3 MONTHS PAYING £390.00 PER DAY.
CV DEADLINE : Tuesday 18th December at 03:00 PM
MINIMUM REQUIREMENT:
We are looking for experienced senior .NET developers to take a lead role in developing our Welsh Clinical Portal software system.
Working as part of a small agile development team you shall take responsibility for delivering individual software components. You shall have the opportunity to get involved in all aspects of the .NET development stack. This could be the UI - using the MVC framework and JQuery - or hooking up to different APIs, messaging frameworks and other clinical systems.
Working as part of a wider development team you shall take responsibility for ensuring applications follow the principles of good software design
The Lead Software Developer must have the following qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Honours degree in Software Development or equivalent qualifications, knowledge or experience
• Foundation qualification in an agile development methodology (e.g. the BCS Foundation Agile) or equivalent knowledge or experience
1) At least 5 years of enterprise level web applications
2) Integrating systems and databases
3) Web Development, excellent team work, documenting their solutions
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
ASP.NET MVC and the latest Microsoft .NET technologies (up to version 4.6)
Excellent understanding of OOP and software design patterns
Entity Framework and LINQ
Unit testing frameworks such as MSTest or NUnit
SQL, Enterprise RDBMS
Mentoring and coaching junior development staff
CV DEADLINE : Tuesday 18th December at 03:00 PM
Senior User Researcher
Cabinet Office, Central London, UK to £525 per day
THIS CONTRACT WITH THE CABINET OFFICE (GDS) IS OUTSIDE IR35 PAYING UPTO £525.00 PER DAY FOR 4 MONTHS BASED IN LONDON
CANDIDATES MUST ALREADY HOLD A VALID SC CLEARANCE, ANY CANDIDATES WITH SC CLEARANCE WILL HOLD AN ADVANTAGE.
CV DEADLINE : Friday 14th December at 03:00 PM
DESCRIPTION:
1 - User Researchers are key figures in the teams that design and deliver services. They help their teams develop a deep understanding of the people - citizens, businesses or government colleagues - who use a service. Their findings allow their teams to design and build better services more quickly and at lower cost and risk. And to continuously improve services, based on data and evidence.
2- The Senior User Researcher will plan and lead user research activities on larger teams and more complex services. They will build user centred practices in new teams, and align user research activities with wider plans to inform service proposition. They may supervise and develop other user researchers to assure and improve research practice.
Main responsibilities
Planning, designing and preparing a range of user research activities to support the design, development and continuous improvement of complex government services
Carrying out a wide range of user research activities from recruiting participants, preparing discussion guides and moderating research sessions
Leading colleagues to analyse research data and synthesise clear and actionable findings, including working closely with analytics colleagues to create a rich picture of user behaviour
Communicating user research findings to help the team and wider organisation develop a deep understanding of users and their needs
Working closely with product managers, designers and developers to turn user research findings into stories and actions that lead to valuable product and service features
Aligning user research activities with wider plans to inform service proposition.
Building user centred practices in new and larger teams
Mentoring and guiding more junior user researchers to assure and improve research practice
contributing to the wider user research community - including presenting at meetups, writing blog posts and leading on aspects of practice
Skills and experience
It’s essential that they have:
Experience of helping teams to adopt user centred service design and delivery practices and embed them into their agile workflow
The ability to understand the complex problems a team is trying to solve, and align user research activities to inform decision making and action
Extensive experience of a wide range of user research methods, analysis and synthesis techniques and approaches to presenting and sharing findings
The ability to include all kinds of users in appropriate research activities to help teams understand the diversity of users of government services
Proven experience of introducing new user research methods into a team, and guiding colleagues in the choice and effective application of research methods
Experience of advocating for user research and engaging skeptical colleagues and stakeholders
A good understanding of the social and technological context for government services, and experience of aligning user research activities to help teams understand changing user behaviour
It’s desirable that they also have:
Knowledge of the technologies used to build and operate digital services, and the ability to work closely with colleagues in technical roles and to constructively challenges technical constraints
Experience of user research for government services
CV DEADLINE : Friday 14th December at 03:00 PM
