HMRC is looking for a deputy IT director for cloud

Successful applicant will be part of firm's cloud delivery group

HM Revenue & Customs is hiring a deputy IT director for cloud and is offering a salary of up to £100,000 for the selected candidate.

The deputy IT director will report to HMRC's development, testing and operations director Peter Schofield, who reports to the company's chief digital and information officer, Mark Dearnley. The post holder will be part of HMRC's new cloud delivery group, which will be accountable for all IT infrastructure services and hardware within the HMRC IT estate, including the delivery of all cloud, virtual and physical infrastructure services.

The group is also responsible for ensuring platforms run effectively and efficiently. The group provides technical and business impact consultation on infrastructure, acts as a key stakeholder in incident resolution and undertakes "bridge operations incident management".

The post holder will oversee the migration to HMRC's cloud platforms, ensuring it is cost effective and offers value for money. He or she will have direct line management responsibility for approximately 50 staff, and the expectation is that the team is likely to grow in order to support HMRC's digital transformation agenda.

They will have to engage with senior directors and HMRC's executive committee to provide assurance that disaster recovery plans are in place for IT infrastructure outages.

The role will be based in London and will pay up to £100,000 per year. The post holder will work 37 hour weeks, although HMRC specified that this does not include breaks and lunch.

The job ad comes nine months after HMRC offered a whopping £162,500 salary for a cloud transformation director.

It wanted a leader with experience of delivering £50m+ IT infrastructure transformation projects. However, in January a HMRC spokesperson confirmed to Computing that it hadn't yet hired a cloud transformation director but that it had someone filling the post on an interim basis. The spokesperson said that HMRC couldn't comment further while the recruitment process was still ongoing. A HMRC organisation chart published in May doesn't show a cloud transformation director.

Earlier this month, HMRC CDIO Mark Dearnley defended the organisation's approach to exiting its £10bn Aspire contract.