British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems
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£120k ... but you must take ultimate responsibility for functionality of e-gates, passports and more
The Home Office is looking for a software engineering boss ready to support systems that when they go down can ruin the day of many thousands of people and make headlines internationally.
The Director of Engineering for Home Office Digital will be responsible for managing and deploying nearly 1,000 engineers working on more than 600 systems. Among many other things, these systems enable 76 million e-gate border crossings, 140 million police checks on people, vehicles, and property and seven million passport applications every year.
Since February, the UK has required many foreign nationals to apply for electronic travel authorisations, which as well as blocking some dual citizens from getting back into Britain adds another itemto the list of what the job application pack calls “some of the UK’s most critical and well-used...
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