Principal Data Management Professional

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The Data Capabilities Team provides expert partnering to support regimes/directorates to manage data risks, needs and improvements.

We enable HMRC to deliver key parts of the Enterprise Data Strategy, improving HMRC’s ability to manage data risks, signposting teams to services that help diagnose and fix data issues.

We promote the importance of good data management across HMRC, raising awareness of its benefits and our role as the central expertise.

We encourage teams to create linked process maps and capture data attributes, risks, and controls using HMRC tools such as Riskonnect, ABACUS, and Informatica Axon through Business Process Mapping. We help HMRC’s Director Generals meet their legal duties for proper data and process stewardship, facilitating completion of each area’s Annual Governance Statement., The Principal Data Management Professional – Capabilities plays a strategic role in helping HMRC’s Directorates and Regimes manage, safeguard, and make effective use of their data. This includes strong stakeholder engagement to guide and support them to understand their critical data processes and flows, identify risks and controls, and ensure data is fit for purpose - relevant, timely, secure, compliant, and accurate.

The role sits within the Data Capabilities Team in the Chief Data Office, which works across HMRC to build data capability, support governance, and enable evidence-based decision-making. The team collaborates closely with the Data Governance Team and other stakeholders to ensure alignment with HMRC’s Data Strategy and Operating Model., * Provide expert advice on data management and governance best practices.

• Work collaboratively with process owners and other data stakeholders to support them in fulfilling their data management responsibilities, while identifying and helping to address any barriers to effective delivery.
• Build capability within Directorates and Regimes to identify critical data, map data processes and flows, and assess risks and controls.
• Support data improvement plans aligned with HMRC Data Strategy.
• Identify the use of tools like ABACUS, AXON, and Power BI to capture business processes and data models and business insights to maximise business value.
• Help business areas manage data risks and develop practical, visual guidance.
• Contribute to initiatives that enhance data capability and maturity across HMRC., Exceptionally, candidates who are not successful at this grade may be considered for appointment to similar roles at a lower grade where the eligibility criteria are met. If this applies, we will contact you directly., If you have an HMRC online account already, sign straight in using your ID and password. If not, you can prove your identity by answering some questions or providing your photo ID.

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Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.

Merit List

After interview, a single merit list will be created, and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with the set number of roles in each location.

Criminal Record Check

Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

Hybrid working at HMRC

HMRC is an office-based organisation, and colleagues are expected to spend 60% of their working time in the office. Our offices provide opportunity for interaction, collaboration which aids learning and development and a sense of community. Where the role allows it, and where the home environment is suitable, colleagues can work from home for up to 2 days a week, averaged over a calendar month (or a proportionate amount of time for colleagues who work less than full time).

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate., HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.

Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.

Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.

Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.

Please note that, if you are applying for roles on a part-time basis, the salary agreed will be pro-rata, reflective of the working hours agreed within your contract.

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Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks., * UK nationals

• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Do you have experience in Presentation skills?, * Proven experience and knowledge of data improvement in the public sector,

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to promote data-driven thinking, and build trusted relationships with key stakeholders This includes strong report writing and presentation capabilities to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience and knowledge of improving data management and governance within complex environments, handling large amounts of data.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience of leading, inspiring and motivating others, fostering a culture of continuous improvement., * Awareness of Metadata Tooling concepts and tools.
• Awareness of Business Process Modelling Notation 2 (BPMN2) and enterprise architecture tools (such as ABACUS).
• Experience and understanding of capturing and managing corporate governance risk and controls.

Transitional Sites

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

If your location preference is for the following sites, it’s important to note that this is not a long-term site for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time., Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Leadership, Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of the Recruitment Principles. In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via ubsrecruitmentcomplaints@hmrc.gov.uk. Please note that we do not accept complaints or appeals regarding scoring of outcomes of campaigns, unless candidates can provide clear evidence that the campaign did not follow the Recruitment Principles. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their website.