careers – Digital trade

Growing as a data leader through a temporary promotion

Leonardo Mazzone - Senior Data Scientist, 24 February 2025 - People

Read how a temporary promotion lead to Leonardo Mazzone helping his new team to overcome some demanding challenges.

From Learning to Leading: Celebrating Apprenticeships in the Civil Service

Andy Palmer, Senior Capability Manager, Hameda Akther, Head of Portfolio Management Office and Julia Crompton – Service Owner for Employee Experience, 12 February 2025 - People

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2025, we’ll share information about apprenticeship opportunities within Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) and hear from some of our apprentices.

How we built a service owner profession at the Department for Business and Trade

Anais Reding, Chief Digital Officer - Business Growth, Julian dos Remedios - Service Owner of Customer Relations Management system and Julia Crompton – Service Owner for Employee Experience, 20 February 2024 - Professions

How Service Owners bridge the gap between the Digital Data and Technology directorate and the rest of the Department for Business and Trade.

What it is like to become a Business Analyst in DBT

Adebisi Iwediebo, Business Analyst, Funmi Endeley, Business Analyst and Kaye Boon, Head of Business Analysis, 17 January 2024 - People, Professions

Two Business Analysts share their first year as Civil Servants working in the Department for Business and Trade

Women in Tech: closing the gender gap in DDaT DBT

Hannah Horn, Head of Engagement and Strategic Adoption, Imogen Barker, Senior Engagement and Strategic Adoption Officer, Liz Catherall, Delivery Manager, Georgia Defeo, Head of DDaT Recruitment and Jason Kitcat, DDaT Director, 4 September 2023 - People, Professions

DBT DDaT pave the way to closing the gender gap after being nominated for the Women in Tech Employer Awards.

Introducing students to a career in Digital, Data and Technology

Kelly Voysey, Product Adoption Manager, Joanne Granton, Capability Lead and Andy Palmer, Senior Capability Manager, 31 August 2023 - People, Professions

A team from DBT shared their DDaT career advice and experiences with students at Exeter college.

Meeting potential colleagues at Silicon Milkroundabout

Georgina Prvulovich, DDaT Recruitment Lead, Liz Catherall, Delivery Manager, Amad Ahmed, Content Designer, Luisella Strona, Senior Developer and Kelly Thompson, Resourcing Advisor, 8 August 2023 - People, Professions

Find out about DBT's weekend at Silicon Milkroundabout

Building our User Research Capability in DIT

Jonathan Nicholls, Head of User Research, 4 July 2022 - Professions

DIT is reinvigorating its user research function. Read about some of the challenges we are addressing to increase our impact on DIT’s digital services.

Female leadership in DIT DDaT: breaking barriers and reflecting the public we serve

Jason Kitcat, DDaT Director, Anais Reding, Chief Digital Officer - Business Growth, Miranda Pottinger, Chief Product and Delivery Officer and Daisy Mackay, Senior DDaT Resourcing Lead, 14 June 2022 - People

We reflect on being shortlisted for the Best Public Sector Employer at the Women in Tech Awards 2022 and why leading diverse teams matters.

How continuous learning for our Product profession helped improve our business and stakeholder strategy

Tom Dolan, Head of Product, 10 May 2022 - People

DIT’s Product Managers are adopting the “opportunity solution trees” workshop technique. This is to provide better structure around ideas from their teams and stakeholders, aid collaboration, and improve their overall product strategy.