Telecoms Technical Team Lead

The Digital, Data and Technology Directorate is the in-house IT division for HMLR. We are currently recruiting several roles to ensure the directorate’s teams contain the right blend of skills, experience and knowledge to take our major transformation programme forward. These teams are at the heart of the move to a digital, data-driven organisation with the ambition to provide our customers with cutting-edge digital services.

Our Business Plan for -2024 sets out our aims of:

• brilliant at the basics;
• a comprehensive Land Register;
• world-leading through Digital Street – our ground-breaking research and development project exploring how land registration might work in 2030;
• opening our data;
• expert people; and
• financially strong.

For more information about what its like to work here please see the following links:

Building our digital capability through Communities of Practice

Working for HM Land Registry/

See our vetting charter.

We want to keep this process as easy as possible for you so just cut and paste an anonymised CV to include your qualifications, career history, skills and experience into the online application form when prompted, ensuring you cover those areas listed under the ‘Essential Technical Skills and Qualifications’ and ‘Essential Experience Criteria’ sections in the Job Description on page 4 of the attached candidate pack.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a blended interview. Your interview will be held in the Plymouth Office week commencing Monday 12 2022.

Interview Venue: HM Land Registry Plymouth Office, Seaton Court, 2 William Prance Road, Plymouth PL6 5WS.

The blended interview will assess the technical skills, behaviours and experience listed in the job description, as well as the strengths associated with the role.

We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to the strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strength questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles.

Candidates refer to notes within their interview but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.

If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

If you would like further information about the use of your personal data, please click on the link below:

Job Applicant Personal Information

The post will require a Security Check and will therefore be subject to further background checks, including meeting the UK minimum residency requirement of 5 years. Further details of the process and checks can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels.

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

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.