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As a Lead Technical Architect, you'll guide the design of MI and Analytics solutions that support thousands of users, from frontline teams to ministers. You'll manage a small team, ensure designs are secure, scalable and aligned with strategy, and collaborate across engineering, policy, legal and government teams. You'll also advise on tooling, resolve technical debt, and share best practice across DWP Digital.
Pay up to £99,836, plus 28.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid working with 60% home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP Digital with Purpose
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
About the Role
We're driving a once-in-a-generation transformation of government services. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to build and maintain innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives.
Responsibilities
You'll lead architecture design for Management Information (MI) and Analytics services, two strategic capabilities that support thousands of users, from operational teams to ministers. You'll work across complex digital environments, combining sensitive data handling, cloud security and live service integration.
In this role, you'll manage a small team of architects and guide the design of solutions that meet user needs, align with strategy, and support digital transformation. You'll work with engineers, policy teams, legal, and cross-government colleagues to ensure architecture decisions are robust, scalable and secure.
You'll provide expert advice on tooling, drive resolution of technical and data debt, and ensure architecture artefacts are delivered to high standards. You'll also help shape best practice and share reference architectures across DWP Digital.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
* Architecture Across Environments – design across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
* Principled Architecture Design – apply architecture principles, patterns, technical radars, and standards.
* End-to-End Delivery Support – work with project teams across agile, waterfall and hybrid environments.
* Business-to-Technical Translation – translate business requirements into technical solutions with traceability.
* Architecture Modelling – use modelling techniques and tools to design and communicate solutions.
* Data Integration – integrate data from disparate sources, including ERP, CRM and IoT, using real-time pipelines and batch processing.
* Data Security & Compliance – design for data privacy, disaster recovery and backup, ensuring compliance with standards and policies.
* Analytics & Reporting – design and implement data warehousing and data lake solutions, and apply BI and analytics technologies like Power BI.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You'll join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever you prefer. We work a hybrid model – you'll be in the office about 60% of the time, and 40% home working.
Competitive pay up to £99,836. A brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions over 28.9% and a generous leave package starting at 26 days. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.
Benefits
* Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards); Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100).
* Flexible working including flexible hours and family-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.
* Sports and social activities.
* Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
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Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Information Technology
Industries
IT System Design Services
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