Senior Digital Project Manager

Senior Digital Project Manager

Campaign number - 441723

£57,946 - £68,205

locations: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield

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DWP Digital are looking for Senior Digital Project Managers to deliver multiple high-impact projects that shape services for millions. Join a collaborative team driving innovation and making a real difference.

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Senior Digital Project Manager

Pay up to £68,205, plus 28.97%employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Are you experienced in leading large-scale digital projects and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment?

This is your opportunity to join DWP Digital and play a key role in one of Europe's largest digital transformations.

You'll manage complex projects, work with multi-functional teams, and deliver innovative services that support millions of people. From modernising legacy systems and driving cloud adoption to creating low-code solutions, you'll lead impactful change in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.

We have vacancies on different teams within DWP Digital including:

Core Digital Service - Benefit Payment Services

This team maintains DWP's Core Services, paying £150 billion to over 15 million citizens annually. You'll lead technical delivery across complex digital environments, managing cross-cutting projects and infrastructure/software upgrades on legacy systems and services.

Working closely with our security manager, you'll plan and coordinate patches and upgrades to keep applications secure.

Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS)

As part of the HCS Database Platforms team, you'll lead end-to-end delivery of multiple projects at pace, working with engineers to ensure DWP's success continuing transition to a hybrid cloud model.

You'll manage risks, issues, and dependencies, reporting progress to the HCS Programme Board. Our team supports critical services impacting millions, driving the shift from on-premise to cloud with automation at the core for innovation and efficiency.

Low Code Team

Your team will deliver low-code solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, modernising services from scratch or remediating legacy applications.

This transformation replaces unsupported VBA tools with secure, scalable PowerApps aligned to DWP's Digital Strategy. With hundreds of applications relied upon by tens of thousands of users, you'll drive user-focused innovation and ensure successful end-to-end delivery in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Skills and experience as a digital project manager.
• You are influential - you are able to communicate and lead with impact across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, tailoring messages to ensure that it is right for the audience.
• You have experience and proven track record in motivating peers to deliver at pace and set a positive team environment. You can resolve difficult relationships and support teams to overcome conflicts.
• Detailed working knowledge and adept at spotting project risks and blockers to work at removing or action them. You're able to solve or escalate issues quickly and effectively, identifying themes and help the team learn from experience.
• Experience of procurement, commercial and supplier management and managing budgets. You're a creative and effective planner - both internal and external to team - optimising speed to market, value and quality.
• Adaptable and with proven ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions and to cope effectively with complexity and change.

What does a Digital Project Manager do in DWP Digital?

As a Senior Digital Project Manager in DWP Digital, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, large-scale digital change like the ones listed above.

You'll take ownership of project controls, ensuring plans, risks, issues, and dependencies are managed effectively. You'll provide governance and reporting to senior leaders, influencing decisions at board level and resolving complex challenges with confidence.

You'll be working across a diverse stakeholder landscape, setting the pace for delivery and collaborating with internal teams and external suppliers to achieve success. We look to you to foster a positive team culture, coaching and mentoring to improve flow, quality, and ownership, while managing dynamics and resolving conflict when needed.

You'll also take responsibility for your own development. You'll have lots of chances to build expertise in project management, digital frameworks, and emerging technologies in an agile environment, while supporting the wider Project Delivery community to establish best practices and standards.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield

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: Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £68,205

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £16,758 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
• Sports and social activities
• 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 is 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.

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