Senior Technical Lead

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

Join DWP Digital as a Senior Technical Lead and help shape the advanced analytics platforms that support some of the UK's most critical public services.

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?

• Demonstratable experience of leading, supporting, guiding and providing oversight to engineers across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
• Significant experience of the full life-cycle of cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and patching (in particular AWS and/or Azure).
• Proven experience of communicating effectively with stakeholders at multiple levels within an organisation.
• Evidence of defining, building and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Experience of creating cloud-based solutions - specifically AWS, utilising the likes of Athena, Sagemaker and Glue, as well as associated cloud services.
  
  

You and your role

As our Technical lead, you will lead multi disciplinary teams in the delivery of advanced cloud based analytics.

We're using these analytics to improve the accuracy of benefit payments and strengthen fraud detection and prevention. Your work will help shape modern data platforms that are improving critical public services.

You'll work closely with senior product and delivery partners to define and steer technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with DWP's Strategic Reference Architecture and Data Strategy. You'll provide expert guidance on complex engineering and architectural challenges while supporting and mentoring technical colleagues.

Our Tech Leads are trusted experts. You'll influence senior stakeholders, and in turn help drive adoption of secure and resilient AWS and Azure solutions. You'll also collaborate with infrastructure, security and production teams to ensure robust, end to end delivery across our whole analytics landscape.

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please click through and read the 'Selection process details' section.

Details. Wages. Perks.


Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home (40%) and some time collaborating face to face in a hub (60%).

Pay: We offer competitive pay for this role of £75,026 - £92,522, based on our assessment of you skills and experience at interview.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £23,253 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:

• 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
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and progression opportunities.

And we have an award-winning environment and culture:

• 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
  
  

Process:

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

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a two-stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.