Head of Applications and Data

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience of delivering digital, application, or data strategies aligned to wider organisational priorities
• Experience of leading technical and project teams
• Ability to engage and work with colleagues across the organisation
• Strategic leadership experience in IT or a related digital services environment
• Ability to lead the functions strategy, operating model, product and service offerings, and workforce

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for our application, data and AI-enabled services
• Ensure our services are secure, sustainable, user-focused, and aligned to parliamentary priorities
• Contribute as a key member of our senior IT leadership team
• Support the development and execution of our enterprise-wide digital strategy
• Lead the function, including strategy, operating model, product and service offerings, and workforce
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across our organisation to deliver our IT strategy and future vision

Technologies:

• AI
• Support
• Embedded
• Security

More:

We are the Scottish Parliaments Digital Services office and are offering a permanent, full-time hybrid role based between Holyrood in Edinburgh and home working. This is a strategic leadership opportunity at the heart of public service, where you can help shape the Parliaments digital future and make a tangible difference to democracy in Scotland. We support a healthy work-life balance with flexible working and offer 41.5 days leave including public holidays, paid professional subscriptions, family-friendly policies, a Season Ticket advance loan, onsite gym facilities, health and wellbeing schemes, confidential counselling and information services, a Cycle to Work Scheme, and access to the Alpha Civil Service pension scheme with an employer contribution of 28.97% of basic salary. We are a values-based organisation committed to respect and inclusion, and we particularly welcome applications from candidates from Minority Ethnic backgrounds and candidates with a disability.

last updated 30 week of 2026