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Job Summary

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC.

About The Team

HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support. HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) is responsible for the department’s civil and criminal investigations.

FIS provides HMRC with an effective investigation arm to enforce the Department’s compliance policies. This enables the Department to deliver against the strategic responsibilities across all the taxes and duties it administers.

This includes complex offshore evasion, international smuggling of illicit excise goods, exports of controlled weapons and technology, labour market abuses, VAT and Self-Assessment repayment frauds and a host of other fraud attacks targeted at the tax system.

FIS is home to a wide range of people with a variety of skills and professional backgrounds – including accountants, cybercrime specialists, criminal justice professionals, tax professionals and operational delivery support teams to name but a few. We use a range of powers and approaches to protect funding for UK public services, investigating the most harmful tax cheats and ensuring nobody is beyond our reach.

Job Description

Sensitive Collection is one of HMRC’s most cutting edge, fast-paced and impactful tools, working closely with other CODE teams, operational investigation and intelligence teams, as well as other Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and the UK Intelligence Community (UKIC).

Targeted Interception (TI) as a key component of Sensitive Collection provides FIS investigation and RIS intelligence teams with interdiction and evidential gathering opportunities gained through the law interception of criminals’ communications.

TI also provides an unparalleled insight into criminal intent and behaviour, used to drive tactical operational activity and inform strategic responses across all aspects of HMRC related serious crime.

Sensitive Collection is undergoing significant transformation as we develop and adopt new capabilities and practices, continuing to evolve into a highly skilled, cross-functional, Tier 3 Sensitive Communications Exploitation Business Unit, able to rapidly acquire, process and derive intelligence value from a range of sensitive communications sources.

The TI Data Analysis and Systems Management Team Leader is responsible for research activity and knowledge sharing with Law Enforcement and UKIC partners to reduce the threat posed by complex criminal communications and the emerging threats to HMRC's TI collection portfolio.

This includes rapidly experimenting to develop and run E2E innovative exploitation techniques that solve specific operational challenges and deliver actionable intelligence. Developing new capability services and ensuring the business can adapt quickly and effectively to emerging technology requirements in a systematic and sustainable way.

The successful applicant will lead a team, creating tradecraft and exploitation techniques in an agile operational environment, that are pulled through the wider community whereas a team we seek to disrupt serious organised criminal activity. Acting as a sensitive equities' gateway to protect capability and mitigate risks whilst releasing maximum benefit to operations. Providing operational expertise in the development and evaluation of national capabilities.

Working Patterns

Hybrid or smart home working is not available as there is a daily requirement to attend the office to work on specialist IT systems.

Security Vetting

This post requires British nationality (some dual nations may be ineligible), Developed Vetting (DV) clearance and additional security checks.

This role requires security clearance to DV level. Any job offer is conditional to the attainment of the security clearance to DV and thus, the security clearance is mandatory.

Please be aware that those who do not attain the required security clearance will not be allowed to carry on in this post.

Psychological Well-being and Resilience

Given the nature of the role, it is important that psychological input is in place to assess and supervise resilience. If successful in being appointed, focusing by attending and engaging fully in psychological well-being and resilience support (this will be six monthly in the first year of post and annually thereafter, unless other specific needs are identified).

Person specification

• Lead and manage the Data Analysis and Systems Management sub-section of the Data Exploitation (DE) function, contributing to team performance and people management, including HR requirements.
• Being responsible for the successful completion of Data Analysis and Systems Management functions and responsibilities, including requirements and benefits capture, design, development and implementation of bespoke software systems to maximise exploitation of existing and emerging capabilities.
• Work closely with Sensitive Collection colleagues to ensure resource allocation is managed to support operational priorities, including identification of intelligence development opportunities and identification of data, as well as ensuing analytical requirements are met.
• Build effective internal and external partner relationships and work collaboratively with stakeholders to provide subject leadership in Data Analysis and Systems Management. Coordinating the delivery of end-to-end process management for new capabilities.
• Coordination of business analysis to ensure comprehensive understanding of new technologies, as well as requirements and impact.
• Carry out research and development of new equipment, tools and techniques to counter the threat, risk and harm posed by serious organised criminals. Development of and implementation of training and documentation for new capabilities.
• Build relationships and collaborate with external law enforcement agencies and private industry to provide guidance, technical Operational support and training in the installation and use of developed tools and techniques.
• Remain abreast of political and legislative changes that may impact these capabilities and assist in developing appropriate Standard Operating Practices and IPA data handling arrangements and safeguards.

Essential Criteria

• Experience of working with Kibana or other data visualisation software to explore, view and build dashboards for application monitoring or operational intelligence use cases.
• Proven experience in the design and delivery of internal technical development initiatives including the introduction of a Learning Management System (LMS) or technology driven solutions is essential.
• A doer, who is motivated by problem-solving with good attention to detail to be able to review and adapt Standard Operating Procedures to meet business needs.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively with departmental colleagues and other Law Enforcement and Intelligence partners.
• Being an excellent communicator and influencing colleagues and partners alike.

Desirable Criteria

Desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of a tied score.

• Recent experience conducting or supporting serious crime investigations to deliver capability improvements to support business /operational outcomes across teams.
• Elastic Certified Analyst or Engineer.
• A demonstrable knowledge and practical application in the use of material relating to, or associated to, data analysis with Kibana, including an understanding of how this can be used to drive intelligence development or has been used to progress criminal investigation.
• Working knowledge of Confluence or other business collaboration tools.
• Experience with data and log analysis.
• Programming knowledge / experience in Python or Structured Query Languages (SQ) used to manipulate and access large datasets.
• Knowledge, understanding and practical application of the following legislation: Investigatory Powers Act (IPA 2016), Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA 2000) and the associated Code of Practices.
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec).

Behaviours

• Leadership

Alongside your salary of £49,091, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £14,221 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.

How To Apply
Stage 1 (Initial Application and Sift)

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and a Personal Statement.

• Your CV should provide a brief description of your employment history for your last four roles, highlighting your key achievements to help demonstrate how you match the Person Specification part of the Job Advert. No more than 350 words per individual role please. Talk about what you achieved under each role and what skills and qualifications you may have picked up.
• Up to 1000-word personal statement providing examples of how you consider your technical and personal skills, qualities and experience define your suitability for the role in line with the Essential Criteria. We want to see impacts; outcomes and result here also please.
• Please complete a separate statement (Max 250 words) for the Desirable Criteria, where applicable. This is not mandatory for the role but may be considered by the vacancy-holder where candidates have the same scores at sift or interview.

It is crucial that you provide reference to the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Please note that the personal statement is an important part of your application and is as much how you will be assessed as your CV.

Only those who pass the pre sift (CV) have both parts scored at full sift (Personal Statement too) If you don't pass the CV part your Personal Statement won't be assessed. A part sift will be undertaken on the submitted applications assessing both the CV and Personal Statement (full sift). Sifting will commence and complete 1 week after closure of the role.

Only those who pass the pre sift (CV) have both parts scored at full sift (Personal Statement too) If you don't pass the CV part your Personal Statement won't be assessed.

Stage 2 (Interview)

Those successful at sift will be invited to interview and will be tested using the following:

• Presentation (10 minutes including Q&A)
• 1 behaviour (Leadership)
• Strengths
• Experience and Technical questions.

If you progress to the interview stage, a presentation question will be set ahead of time, so that the candidate has time to prepare. Interviews will be held face-to-face at HMRC Regional Centre, Stratford, London.

Successful candidates may refer to notes during their interview. Sift and Interview will take place within 5 weeks of the advert closing date.

Stage 3 (Results)

Successful applicants following interview will be given a provisional offer subject to satisfactory conduct, discipline checks and security vetting. Please note there will be a reserve list which will be held for 12 months.

The successful applicant will be required to undertake bi-annual face-to-face psychological interviews with a qualified psychological practitioner and will undergo mandatory wellbeing and resilience training sessions.

Eligibility

Please Take Extra Care To Tick The Correct Boxes In The Eligibility Sections Of Your Application Form. We Understand Mistakes Sometimes Happen But If You Contact Us Later Than Two Working Days (Monday-Friday) Before The Vacancy Closes, We Will Not Be Able To Reopen Your Application For You. If You Do Make a Mistake With Your Eligibility Form, Please Contact Us Via

• unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’.

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.

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.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact the UBS Recruitment team via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Additional Security Information

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Developed Vetting (DV) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for DV is 10 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers

Please note that this role is unsuitable for contractual homeworkers due to the nature and/or requirements of the role.

Terms and Conditions

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.

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.

If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.