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Chief Digital Officer

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Birmingham, UK
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Consultancy · Engineering
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Skills & Experience

Job roles: CDO
Experience level: Lead, Leadership
Core skills considered: Business Analysis, Building Teams, Business development, Business Development Strategy
Other skills considered: Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Communication software

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Base salary: Undisclosed
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Employment type: Permanent
Remote working: Hybrid
Visa sponsorship: Not available

Job Description

The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is a senior member of the Account Leadership Team (ALT) and serves as Version 1's strategic lead for transformation, innovation, organisational change and future service design across the local government client and any successor authorities. The CDO will work with senior Authority stakeholders to establish and drive strategic engagement objectives, approaches and outcomes, ensuring that Version 1's advisory, architecture, innovation and partner capabilities are aligned to the Council's priorities. The role acts as a trusted advisor to senior Council leaders, helping shape strategic direction, identify and develop transformation opportunities, and establish a clear pipeline of change that delivers measurable organisational outcomes. A critical part of the role is to move Version 1 beyond the IT, to engage the broader business challenges and illustrate the role Version 1 can play in meeting them. The CDO provides leadership across strategy development, innovation, operating model design, business architecture, transformation planning and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that people, process, data and technology change are aligned to the Council's priorities and long-term objectives. A key responsibility of the role is to lead the Partner Advisory Group (PAG), bringing together expertise from Version 1, strategic partners and the wider market to provide thought leadership, innovation and external perspectives that help the Council address current challenges and prepare for future opportunities. The CDO also plays a significant role in helping the Council establish the strategic, organisational, digital and operational foundations required to support future authority structures and transition plans. The Council retains ownership of its strategic direction, priorities, investment decisions and organisational outcomes. The CDO provides strategic advice, challenge, insight and orchestration to help the Council make informed decisions and translate its priorities into coherent transformation activity.


Key Responsibilities

Strategy Development & Alignment

  • Support the council in developing and refining it's digital, data and transformation strategies.
  • Translate strategic objectives into prioritised transformation plans, roadmaps and operating models.
  • Align business, organisational, economic, digital, data and technology priorities to support current objectives and future Local Government Reorganisation (LGR).
  • Support the development of strategic account plans.

Strategic Advisory

  • Act as a trusted advisor to the Corporate Leadership Team, Directors and senior officers.
  • Provide strategic advice and challenge across transformation, operating models, digital capability, data, AI, automation and organisational change.
  • Bring external insight and best practice from local government, the wider public sector and industry to inform investment and strategic decision-making.

Innovation, Thought Leadership & Partner Advisory Group Leadership

  • Lead the Partner Advisory Group (PAG), bringing together Version 1, partners and subject matter experts to support Council priorities.
  • Drive innovation, thought leadership and horizon scanning to identify emerging opportunities, risks and market developments.
  • Facilitate workshops, executive briefings and innovation activities that support service improvement, productivity and organisational outcomes.
  • Promote a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and evidence-based transformation.
  • Plan and lead, with the PAG, at least three innovation days annually, focused on agreed Council challenges and opportunities, with documented outputs, recommendations and proposed next steps.
  • Support the progression of appropriate innovation outputs into proofs of value, service improvements, business cases or prioritised transformation proposals, subject to Council approval and agreed commercial arrangements.

Business Development & Opportunity Shaping

  • Build strong relationships across Council services to understand priorities, challenges and opportunities.
  • Identify, shape and mature transformation opportunities into investable initiatives and programmes.
  • Lead the development of strategic recommendations and investment propositions, coordinating appropriate subject-matter expertise to develop detailed business cases and options where agreed.
  • Maintain a sustainable pipeline of transformation opportunities aligned to Council objectives.
  • Support the development of other Local Government Accounts.
  • The CDO is accountable for strategic identification, shaping, orchestration and executive engagement. Detailed discovery, design, business-case production, implementation and delivery will be commissioned and resourced through the relevant contractual, Statement of Work or Change Control mechanism where not included within the baseline service.

Transformation Pipeline & Roadmap Development

  • Help develop and maintain a prioritised portfolio of transformation initiatives.
  • Create roadmaps that link strategy, investment, delivery and benefits realisation.
  • Support business case development, benefits modelling and investment planning.
  • Ensure transformation plans support long-term organisational goals and LGR readiness.

Strategic & Architectural Oversight

  • Provide strategic oversight across business, data, application and technology domains.
  • Ensure transformation initiatives align with architectural principles, operating models and governance standards.
  • Provide strategic leadership and coordination of the Enterprise Architecture capability supporting the client, ensuring that business, data, application and technology analysis, target-state roadmaps and recommendations are aligned to Council priorities.
  • Ensure that Enterprise Architecture activity supports strategic decision-making and provides a coherent connection between Council outcomes, transformation priorities, architectural direction and delivery
  • Promote joined-up thinking across people, process, data and technology change.

Governance and Assurance

  • Represent Version 1 as a standing supplier member of the client's Digital Design Authority.
  • Provide strategic input and challenge to decisions affecting digital transformation, architecture, data, technology and future service design.
  • Ensure that strategic recommendations and transformation roadmaps are aligned with the Council's agreed governance, architecture and assurance arrangements.
  • Escalate material strategic dependencies, risks, constraints and decisions through the appropriate account and contractual governance routes.
  • Maintain clear records of strategic recommendations, decisions and agreed actions arising from CDO-led governance and advisory activity.

Stakeholder Management & Engagement

  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior Council stakeholders and partners.
  • Act as Version 1's senior strategic liaison for digital transformation, innovation, digital strategy and future service design, working in conjunction with the Account Director, Client Partner and other account leadership roles.
  • Facilitate alignment across leadership teams, programmes and delivery functions.
  • Lead strategic governance discussions and communicate complex concepts in clear business language.

Local Government Delivery

  • Support the Council's priorities for service delivery.
  • Ensure transformation priorities, operating models and investments contribute to future organisational readiness.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and modernise services ahead of transition.
  • Support future service, governance, digital, data and organisational planning activities.

Account Leadership Team Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the strategic direction, growth and success of the account.
  • Support the development of a long-term partnership between Version 1 and Strategic Local Government Accounts.
  • Champion innovation, transformation and business value across the account.
  • Collaborate with consulting, delivery, operational and commercial leaders to provide a joined-up customer experience.
  • Leverage Version 1 capabilities, partner ecosystems and market insight to maximise value delivered to the Council.
  • Promote Version 1 values

Company Benefits

  • Annual Leave - Employees receive an annual leave allowance and up to five days can be carried forward each year if you want to save leave for a special occasion. Unpaid leave of up to thirteen weeks may also be taken.
  • Flexible Working - Many of our employees choose to take advantage of the opportunity to work from home, either on an ad hoc basis or with a regular pattern. Many also work flexible hours, depending on what works for themselves and their customers.
  • Maternity/Paternity Leave - We offer statutory maternity pay in line with your local office and after two years’ service, we offer enhanced six months’ paid maternity leave. We also provide two weeks full pay for new dads once probation is completed.
  • Shared Parental Leave - This enable parents to share the period of leave that could have been taken as Maternity Leave. Local employment legislation applies here - our HR department can provide more information where required.
  • Wedding Leave - We recognise this happy event by giving employees an extra three days annual leave to help them celebrate with family and friends.
  • Special Leave - Additional leave is offered to employees upon a family bereavement or when it is needed in a crisis.
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Starling Bank

Full Stack Engineer (ML Ops)

London, UK
FinTech · Banking · Finance
A better bank for everyone
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Skills & Experience

Job roles: Full Stack
Experience level: Mid, Senior
Core skills considered: Java, React, Redux, AWS, JavaScript

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Base salary: £70K - £110K
Employment type: Permanent
Remote working: Hybrid (up to 2 remote days p/w)
Visa sponsorship: Not available

Job Description

Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.

Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.

We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.

Our Data Environment

Our Data teams are excited about the value of data within the business, powers our product decisions to improve things for our customers and enhance effective and agile decision making, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

We are looking for talented data professionals at all levels to join the team. We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling. People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges, who can work across teams do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good.

Requirements

We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java. We are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers on a daily basis.

We are looking for people who are truly full stack, and are as comfortable polishing their javascript front end as they are debugging the innards of their java applications database interactions, or standing up infrastructure with terraform. We are looking for people who can:

  • Design REST apis.
  • Code backend services, ideally using Java, or another other server side compiled language.
  • Develop modern front ends, ideally using React and Redux.
  • Get their code into the cloud and support it there, ideally on AWS.
  • Believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
  • Like to take ownership of a feature from the original idea through to live.
  • Think (like us) that a small number of empowered developers is the right way to deliver software.

Company Benefits

  • 33 days holiday (including flexible bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
  • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
  • Part-time and/or flexible hours available for most roles
  • Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
  • Life insurance at 4x your salary
  • Hybrid/remote working
  • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
  • Generous family-friendly policies
  • Varied social groups set up and run by our employees
  • Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
  • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

Full details are available on our careers site

Interview Process

Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

  • Stage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team
  • Stage 2 - Take home challenge
  • Stage 3 - 90 mins technical interview with two team members
  • Stage 3 - 45 min final with an executive and a member of the people team
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