Overview
As a Senior Technical Architect at DWP Digital, you'll support major initiatives by designing complex IT solutions that meet strategic goals and governance standards. You'll evaluate technical options, assure supplier architectures, and guide technology choices across teams. This role also involves mentoring others and contributing to cross-government alignment to help deliver high-quality, user-focused services.
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. We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. 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. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We\'d love you to join us. Delivery. Work. Projects. As a Senior Technical Architect you\'ll work across major initiatives, supporting the design and delivery of complex IT solutions that meet strategic goals, quality standards and cost constraints. You\'ll collaborate with colleagues, stakeholders and vendors to evaluate technical options, provide expert advice, and ensure solutions align with DWP\'s architecture governance. In this role, you\'ll lead the technical design of systems and services, review supplier architectures, and assure the quality of technical work across multiple teams. You\'ll mentor others, contribute to cross-government alignment, and help drive technology choices that support our mission to deliver exceptional products and services.
Responsibilities
* Architecture Across Environments - You can design architecture across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments, covering networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration layers.
* Principled Design - You can apply architecture principles, patterns, technical radars, and standards to inform robust and scalable design decisions.
* Lifecycle Engagement - You can work with delivery teams in agile, waterfall, and hybrid environments, supporting architecture design from concept through to go-live.
* Business-to-Technical Translation - You can translate business requirements into technical solutions with clear traceability that stakeholders can understand and trust.
* Modelling & Representation - You can use architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise, document, and communicate design effectively.
* Vendor & Product Management - You can work with third-party vendors, evaluate software products, develop roadmaps, and manage external software solutions to align with strategic goals.
* Disability Confident
* Disability Confident
Disability Confident
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Benefits
* Pay up to £83,917, plus 28.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid working with 60% home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
* 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, 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.
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