Stealth iT Consulting: Driving HMRC’s Digital Future
His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority that collects the funds that pay for the UK’s public services; it also helps families and individuals with targeted financial support.
The authority’s Chief Digital and Information Officer’s (CDIO) Group partners with business areas to drive digital optimisation and innovation to meet the department’s dynamic policy needs. HMRC’s increasingly product-centric and platform-based capabilities are designed to enable a world-class customer and colleague experience using secure, modern and flexible technology. It is transforming technology as the ‘beating heart’ of HMRC – Making Tax Digital.
As a strategic partner, Stealth iT Consulting is committed to helping HMRC deliver on these digital transformation objectives. It now has the largest footprint on HMRC’s Live Services as an ECO partner with digital service partners, Capgemini and Accenture.
Since 2021, Stealth has maintained a vital role in empowering HMRC’s large and complex Live Service programmes throughout the UK. The firm provides full-scale, end-to end, team-based resource consultancy throughout HMRC’s five Digital Delivery Centres (DDCs): Newcastle, Telford, Worthing, Edinburgh and Leeds.
Stealth has deployed over 40 digital resourcing solutions to HMRC, establishing itself as a trusted and valued partner and as a key player inside the department’s digital transformation landscape.
It provides a strategic portfolio of Statement of Work (SoW) solutions, ensuring the consistent delivery of key project milestones for HMRC. This all depends on enabling HMRC to build new and innovative Live Services to exacting specification and time scales within Government Digital Standards (GDS).
Transforming HMRC with stealth precision
Stealth’s consultancy solutions for HMRC’s Live Services draws on the strength its agile and compact dynamic team of experts that help the department deliver on massive, large-scale projects, efficiently and effectively.
Its expert resourcing services champion:
• The largest footprint on Digital Resource with on HMRC Live Services as an ECO partner. Partnering with Capgemini and Accenture, Stealth has consistently demonstrated its capability to deliver high-quality consultancy services.
• Strength and depth in Digital Resources: Stealth’s success with HMRC is attributed to its diverse range of agile service provision that cuts through the noise and red tape often associated with larger consultancies.
For HMRC, through Capgemini and Accenture, Stealth’s expert team sources and manages full digital team deployment across these multi-disciplinary role profiles: Scala Developers; Content Designers; UX Designers; User Researchers; QA Testers and Agile Delivery Managers. End-to-end Statement of Work (SoW) deliverables. Stealth’s SoW consultancy solutions effectively meet resource requirements for digital team deployment so HMRC can research, build and test its extensive Live Services. They provide permanent and subcontractor talent, building teams for seamless project integration.
Stealth’s SoW consultancy services excel in:
• Efficient onboarding and rapid mobilisation of digital talent to contribute to digital service partners’ and HMRC’s high-quality service delivery.
• Flexible best practice and dynamic resource allocation to adapt to evolving programme requirements.
• High success rates and performance metrics to meet project objectives.
• Strategic insights, adhering to GDS standards to enhance project outcomes.
• Meticulous recruitment to ensure top-tier digital professionals match the required roles to build Live Services throughout HMRC’s five UK Digital Delivery Centres (DDCs).
• Providing digital service partners and HMRC with the flexibility, reliability and expertise required for successful digital transformation.
Flagship Project on the DALAS Framework: A key success of Stealth’s work with digital service partners and HMRC is reflected in a flagship project on the DALAS Framework. This is a framework agreement for IT Digital and Legacy Application Services. Stealth is proud to be part of this multi-year framework to help HMRC migrate its complex suite of application services.
Through the framework, Stealth will support the delivery of future applications, reduce the dependency on legacy technologies, and be agile amongst other suppliers.
“Stealth’s role in supporting HMRC Live Services through its digital service partners has been nothing short of transformative. Our extensive capabilities, diverse range of digital resources, and consistent delivery of key project milestones have made us an invaluable partner. As we continue to partner through the DALAS Framework and other initiatives, our contributions will drive further advancements in HMRC’s digital transformation journey.”
Ryan McQueen, Stealth Managing Partner
