Role Purpose
Digital, Data and Technology are responsible for transforming and supporting all of the force's digital technology needs.
Within the Strategy and Transformation team responsible for ensuring the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) understands current and future requirements for the force, the technology marketplace, and as a result identifies opportunities for leveraging information and digital technology to benefit the force.
Strategy and Transformation and maintains the overall technical architecture solution for the force, ensuring that all work undertaken across the force adheres to agreed standards, design principles and architecture methodology (in terms of technology, information and
security).
This team is responsible for translating organisational requirements into technical detailed designs and solutions that can be implemented via internal or external resource.
This role is a hands-on development or software engineering role to exploiting new technology opportunities across the force, based on new and existing applications, to ensure better integration and more access to knowledge due to improved data integration.
The role holder will be expected to identify areas of opportunity where new software solutions or new interfaces will drive forward data driven policing initiatives and allow more intelligent and more powerful usage of the force’s IT systems. Design, Build, Test and implement solutions in a continuous and iterative development cycle.
Experience and skills:
Post graduate qualification or equivalent experience
Significant experience of working within IT and implementing latest integration technologies
An ability to identify integration opportunities
Able to present complex technical concepts in executive summary reports
Previous experience in data visualisation techniques and systems integration
Good knowledge Enterprise grade
Previous transformation experience
Demonstrable change achievements and systems integration
Working knowledge of databases and infrastructure technologies
ITIL Certified or awareness
Tasks & Responsibilities
Explore and develop new solutions and opportunities, including interface initiatives, software changes, database structures, or changes to underlying architecture.
Responsible for end to development lifecycles, i.e Design, build and support of developed solutions including Peer review and QA.
Management of code repositories (IDE) ensuring version control and good release management
Responsible for development in well-established Languages (C#, Java, dot Net etc) as well as low and no code solutions
Scrutinise and enhance the integration design between applications for all software solutions delivered by Technology Services.
Fully contribute to any impact assessment process to provide SME input on proposed initiatives.
Seek to continually propose new integration solutions which provide increased efficiency and business effectiveness through data transformation between interfaces.
Discover new ways of sharing data between systems to ensure functionality is not duplicated
Use data transformation opportunities to link systems together to present enhanced intelligence to the end user.
Present new innovation proposals to stakeholders at various levels of technical understanding within the force.
Engage with end users to define and promote suitable technology solutions.
Support and contribute as necessary to the Technical Design Authority.
Provide consultancy engagements and report writing.
Maintain an awareness of appropriate commercial and technical developments to allow advice to be given on providing future IT & Digital solutions.
Liaise with user departments and other sections of technology in the implementation of new systems, software and hardware, focusing on existing systems and compatibility with existing platforms.
Evaluate existing operational systems to identify improvements to the system environments which would allow smoother integration between solutions.
Ensure that any proposed design or alteration is well considered and supportable.
Benefits of working for Staffordshire Police:
Flexi time – flexible working
Pension Scheme - one of the best pension schemes in the country with guaranteed pension payable” for more information visit the LGPS website: Staffordshire Pension Fund - Home (staffspf.org.uk)
Annual Leave Entitlement - starting at 26 days plus bank holidays
Fostering friendly policy
Family friendly policies – maternity, paternity, parental leave, adoption
Occupational Health
On site Gyms
Staff associations
Reward and Recognition
Blue light Card – not solely for Staffs police
Staff restaurant at HQ
Free parking
As ‘One Force’ across Staffordshire, we know that Diversity and Inclusion help us improve our decision making, encourage creativity and embrace innovation so all our people can thrive.
Our vacancies are open to everyone and all appointments are made based on merit and achievements. We encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, gender, people who have a disability, those who are neurodiverse and persons of the LGBTQ+ community.
We use positive action to encourage potential candidates from underrepresented groups through targeted step-In support and advice sessions. If you have the skills, experience and values, that here in Staffordshire Police Force we pride ourselves on, then we would welcome you to apply.
For more information on Positive Action please email the team on positive.action@staffordshire.police.uk
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