Home Office Digital Data and Technology

Our digital and technical specialists in the Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) profession enable the Home Office to keep the UK safe and secure. They design, build and run the services that help people apply for visas or passports, support policing and counter-terrorism operations, and protect the UK’s borders.

Civil Servants in this profession have specialised knowledge and a calling to build on it. We want the best people to come to the Home Office and work in the diverse roles and communities they are passionate about, because we know this is how we produce exceptional outcomes.

To support this vision, the Home Office has created a government-leading bespoke career framework that enables career planning whilst simultaneously ensuring our people can be the best they can be in their chosen role. Included in this framework are Heads of Role: industry specialists who build communities, set standards for what ‘good’ looks like, and ensure we have the right people in the right jobs at the right time.

We also have a Profession Management unit which aims to provide the best professional experience for all our technical staff, with a real passion for and focus on your continuous professional development. We have really invested in our people offer and will continue to do so, as it is hugely important to us.

What you could be doing

The DDaT Profession Career Framework features over 150 defined roles, grouped into 8 Clusters – Architecture, Data, Delivery, Engineering, IT Operations, Product, Quality Assurance and Testing, User Centred Design – and often employed across fast-paced, multi-disciplinary teams.

Here’s just a small snapshot of some of the exciting positions we have to offer:

  • Business Architects work across the change lifecycle to align Home Office strategy with transformation activity and operations to ensure high quality outcomes for citizens.
  • Data Engineers promote data governance and analyse problems, look for underlying causes and assist in developing solutions. They deliver robust services for Home Office, other government departments and private sector partners.
  • Product Managers use their knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame and solve problems and set priorities for delivery teams.
  • Delivery Managers work to deliver our ground-breaking products within agreed timescales, to cost and quality standards.
  • Developers and DevOps are responsible for proactively maintaining, supporting and updating our platforms and building new ones, ensuring they remain accessible to users. Learn more about our Software Engineering, Developer and DevOps roles
  • Information Security Managers oversee development of security, risk management and compliance procedures. This will include the investigation of major breaches of security and the development of information security policies and procedures.
  • Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) Analysts are responsible for the delivery of quality assurance across a project. With a user-centred focus, they develop and implement QAT approaches to help meet user needs and ensure QAT is embedded by default into development.
  • Content Designers make sure that appropriate content is shown to users in the right place and in the best format. Working closely with User Researchers and Interaction Designers as part of the User Centred Design Cluster of roles, they test ideas, challenge assumptions and propose design solutions based on user needs.

The benefits of working a DDaT role at the Home Office

People in the DDaT profession can apply for a Reward and Retention Allowance on top of their normal wages. There are 3 different levels which attract different amounts of rewards based on professional proficiency.

The Home Office is strongly committed to supporting your continued professional development. As such, everyone in DDaT has access to paid-for learning platforms (including Pluralsight, O’Reilly and Cloud Academy) to help them develop or support them in their day to day roles. We also offer paid-for access to the British Computing Society (BCS), with industry standard recognition of competency in their field and the option to become chartered via BCS.

Our Career Framework features role descriptions, career pathways and rich and varied continuous professional development opportunities. There is also role-specific learning which is regularly updated by subject matter experts.