Intellectual Property Office
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the UK government agency that administers patents, designs, trademarks, and copyright, operating under the Department
Company facts
- Employees
- 5,000
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Government
About
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the UK government agency that administers patents, designs, trademarks, and copyright, operating under the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology. It safeguards intellectual property rights to foster innovation and economic growth, delivering services with high quality, cost control, and transparency. The IPO is governed by a Steering Board and audit committee that ensure compliance with corporate governance and strategic objectives. Its unique position as a public institution gives it a national mandate to protect creators while supporting the UK's competitive advantage in technology and creative industries.
Open positions
Business Analyst
Business Analyst in the UK Intellectual Property Office's DDaT team, based in Newport with hybrid working (at least 20% onsite). Day to day: eliciting and documenting requirements, modelling business processes, analysing current and future ways of working, and supporting stakeholders across project and service lifecycles. Permanent, HEI grade, £36,736.
Lead Automation Tester
Lead Automation Tester (Grade 7, permanent) at the UK Intellectual Property Office in Newport: building automated test solutions for cloud-based (Azure) services within agile squads, mentoring and line-managing test engineers, and contributing to the department's technical strategy using C#, Selenium, SpecFlow and related tools.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Lead DevOps Engineer at the UK Intellectual Property Office: hands-on technical leadership of CI/CD and Azure platform engineering, plus mentoring and light line management of 3-4 DevOps engineers. Core tech: Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, Azure, OpenTofu/Terraform, AKS, and scripting.
Agile Delivery Manager
Agile Delivery Manager at the UK Intellectual Property Office in Newport, leading a multi-disciplinary service squad's agile delivery (ceremonies, planning, flow, reporting, risk) within a major digital transformation programme. Requires deep SCRUM/Kanban experience, an agile qualification, and existing UK right to work (no sponsorship).
Senior Business Analyst
Senior Business Analyst at the UK Intellectual Property Office, working in Agile squads with product managers, designers, developers and testers to deliver internal and external IP services. Day-to-day involves writing user stories with acceptance criteria, eliciting requirements, modelling business processes, and mentoring other BAs. Based in Newport with hybrid working.
Lead DevOps Engineer (DevOps Specialist Lead) - Newport
Lead DevOps Engineer at the UK Intellectual Property Office in Newport: hands-on technical leadership, mentoring and light line management of 3-4 engineers, and designing CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. Core stack: Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, Azure, OpenTofu/Terraform, AKS, Python/Bash/PowerShell. Hybrid with weekly onsite attendance.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Lead DevOps Engineer (DevOps Specialist Lead) at the UK Intellectual Property Office in Newport. The role centers on using technical skills to enable collaborative working and help teams deliver software to users with speed and stability. The posting provides minimal detail, directing applicants to the full job description.
Cyber Security Architect
Cyber Security Architect at the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO Secure team), shaping security strategy, architecture roadmaps and Secure by Design across on-premises, cloud and hybrid platforms. Focus on compliance with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NCSC CAF/GovAssure, plus advising teams on identity, Zero Trust and threat modelling.
Digital Delivery Senior Automation Tester
Senior automation tester at the UK Intellectual Property Office (a government agency) in Newport, writing and maintaining automated UI and API test suites using C#, Selenium, SpecFlow and Azure DevOps within a multi-disciplinary squad delivering Azure-based digital services, on a hybrid basis (at least 20% onsite).