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HMRC wins Women in Tech Employer award for the second year running

Posted by: Sarah, Posted on: 28 June 2023 - Categories: General
Five HMRC employees standing on a stage holding a trophy at the Women in Tech Employer Awards. Text on a green background states: HMRC wins Women in Tech Employer award for the second year running

HMRC has won the Best Public Sector Employer category for the second year running at the Women in Tech Employer Awards. The awards celebrate employers and individuals going above and beyond to help close the gender gap within the tech …

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Open Banking Payments at HMRC, a team making history

Posted by: Alfie Abdullah, Posted on: 19 November 2021 - Categories: General
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HMRC recently made history by becoming the first tax authority in the world to integrate Open Banking into our systems. We introduced it as an alternative to paying tax with a debit card or corporate credit card. It has the …

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Digital Forensics at HMRC

Posted by: Mems Bangura and Debbie Clerkin, Posted on: 16 September 2021 - Categories: General
Image of a HMRC employee working in a digital forensics laboratory

When you hear of HMRC you may immediately think about the ‘taxman’, Self Assessment and other Government Gateway services provided to the public, but we have over 20 different professions across the department. Deborah has been working as a Forensic …

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Delivering digital services in a global pandemic (Eat Out to Help Out)

Posted by: Chris Leo, Posted on: 13 May 2021 - Categories: General
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I’m Chris Leo, a programme lead working across Policy Driven Change at HMRC. During the COVID-19 crisis of 2020, Policy Driven Change set up multiple digital services, helping millions of people across the UK at a time of need. These …

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Making mobile apps accessible

Posted by: Marc Belle - Designer, Posted on: 27 April 2021 - Categories: General
Expanding Row component in situ on the tax credits and PAYE screens

My name is Marc Belle. I work on the HMRC mobile app team as an interaction and product designer. It’s been nearly two and a half years since we released the HMRC Mobile App Design System. All public sector apps …

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Becoming a transformative IT organisation 

Posted by: Pete Schofield - Chief Information Officer for Corporate Services, Posted on: 31 January 2019 - Categories: General
Pete Schofield standing on the stage at the Gov ICT conference delivering his talk

At the recent Government ICT conference, Pete Schofield spoke about our transformation progress...

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Innovation - our door is open!

Posted by: Antony Collard, Posted on: 22 January 2019 - Categories: General
A group of five digital team members looking excitedly at a piece of tech kit in front of a brightly coloured background

New Director of Architecture and Innovation, Antony Collard, invites innovating companies to come on in to work with HMRC ...

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SMiShing smashes it at UK IT Awards

Posted by: Steve Rowlands, Posted on: 15 November 2018 - Categories: General

A successful night for HMRC digital at the biggest IT awards of the year...

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The magic key to mentoring

Posted by: Chloe Walker, Posted on: 31 October 2018 - Categories: General
Chloe Walker and her mentor Dave Hatch working together on a laptop

Scrum Master Chloe Walker blogs about what she believes makes a good mentoring relationship...

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Our first user research community conference

Posted by: Shila Odedra, Posted on: 10 October 2018 - Categories: General
A group of user researchers sitting in a circle having an in depth discussion

Over 50 user researchers met to share 2 days of best practice, celebrate successes and explore how to continue to innovate. Research Lead Shila Odedra summarises the event...

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