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Senior Technical Lead

Senior Technical Lead

DWP Digital • Acomb, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
19 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Description

Senior Technical Lead



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Pay up to £92,522 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.


DWP. Digital with Purpose.


We're looking for an outstanding Tech Lead, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.


We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.


DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.


The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.


What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?



  • Significant experience designing and delivering secure, cloud-based solutions (AWS and/or Azure) in large-scale enterprise or government environments.


Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate complex organisations to drive technical, service, and strategic improvements.


Strong DevOps expertise, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform), automation, and improving observability and live service support.


Experience providing technical leadership for the design and delivery of technology solutions, ensuring alignment with architecture standards, security requirements, governance processes, and organisational objectives.


Experience of leading and supporting Engineers in multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment and sharing knowledge and good practice with the wider organisation.


Experience delivering technology change on enterprise platforms that improves user experience, service quality, and business outcomes.



You and your role


As a Senior Technical Lead, you'll shape the technical direction of large-scale cloud platforms and services, working with Product and Delivery teams to solve complex challenges and deliver better outcomes for users.


You'll provide technical leadership across engineering teams, driving modern ways of working through DevOps, automation and cloud technologies. You'll help teams build secure, resilient services while improving performance, reliability and operational excellence.


You will also influence senior stakeholders, support architectural decisions, and develop engineering capability through coaching and mentoring. Working across product, security, infrastructure and operations teams, you'll help ensure services are scalable, compliant and ready for the future.


Details. Wages. Perks.


Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.


Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.


Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £92,522.


Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £21,000 per year.


Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.


You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.


We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:



  • Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies


Time off volunteering and charitable giving


Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'


Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more


Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference


Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.



And we have an award-winning environment and culture:



  • DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards


Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024


Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025


Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards



Process:


We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:


Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.


Interview: a single stage interview online. xwwtmva


CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.



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