Job descriptions

An accessibility specialist provides support, advice and guidance to other roles in the Government Digital and Data profession about how to create accessible digital services.

You will use knowledge of accessibility guidelines, provide technical expertise and bring the voice of disabled users to ensure that product teams make digital services that can be used by everyone.

A business architect uses their extensive knowledge and experience to address a variety of business scenarios.

Content designers make things easier for people to understand and use. This can involve working on a single piece of content or on the end-to-end journey of a service to help users complete their goal and government deliver a policy intent.

Data architects create data flows and data models that describe both the current state of a service, and also set a target that better fulfils the strategic data needs of the service and the DfE as a whole.

Data Engineers at Department for Education develop algorithms to transform data into actionable insights They build scalable and secure data products to collect, validate, prepare high-quality data.

These products are then consumed for use case like analysis and machine-learning.

The data products enable the department to leverage data to inform policymaking, drive innovation in children’s services, ensure excellent standards of education, training, and care.

DevOps engineers’ (or development operations engineers) support the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices.

Enterprise architects collaboratively develop business capability models and roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making.

Interaction designers work out the best way to let users interact with services, in terms of both overall flow and at the level of individual design elements.

Service designers design the end-to-end journey of a service. This helps a user complete their goal and government deliver a policy intent.

Solution architects own the overall technical vision for a set of solutions and work with delivery teams to assure the implementation of those solutions. They also help to deliver business change and achieve organisational objectives.

Technical architects design and build services for a diverse set of users, including citizens, teachers, social workers, and school professionals.

Job specifications for head of profession roles across DDT.