Senior Technical Lead

Pay up to 89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

As a highly experienced technical leader joining our Cross Boundary Team, you will drive strategy and innovation, leading on the application development and coordination of technical teams to create and maintain products and services for DWP.

You will be a strategic thinker, with the ability to convey complex ideas and plans to both stakeholders and technical teams.

This role requires a technical specialist who can steer communication between a range of technical resources to ensure alignment to standards and business needs, as well as DWP strategy.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

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?

• Experience of anticipating and exploiting opportunities, suggesting and reviewing new technologies to ensure they are fit for purpose and utilised in the best way possible.
• Experience of leading a team of engineers, providing experience, advice, and guidance to a wider team.
• Experience of getting solutions through technical governance, in particular architectural design approval, and understanding how technical governance works within wider governance.
• Experience of assuring corporate services by understanding key risks and mitigation through assurance mechanisms.
• Experience of ensuring solutions meet standards of practice and appropriate governance

You and your role

As a member of the Cross Boundary Team's leadership team, you will be accountable for the application development, coordination and leadership of a large technical team (around 100 resources), creating and maintaining products and services for DWP.

Using your deep technical knowledge, you will provide advice and guidance across internal and external relationships reconciling priorities, agreeing on approach and contextualising proposals submitted for approval. You will make balanced recommendations to mitigate problems resultative of change in Departmental policy.

You will work closely with the delivery team to ensure alignment to the wider DWP technical strategy and achieve mutually acceptable solutions across both internal and external interests.

You will have the expertise to contribute to critical business discussions to inform strategy across areas such as software development, engineering, DevOps and solution architecture.

Due to the size and location of the team, there will be an element of travel required to all hub locations, which will contribute to your hybrid working commitment.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: We You'll join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle, 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 89,995.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to 22,521.

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:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women in IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• 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.

Process:

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

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

1. Interview: a single stage interview online.

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