Length of employment: Job Summary: Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. Be at the heart of shaping the future of data in DWP Digital. We're looking for a strategic and visionary Senior Product Manager to lead the design and development of next-generation cloud data platforms replacing legacy systems and driving real impact for millions of UK citizens. If you're passionate about data, thrive in complex backend environments, and want to build meaningful, modern platforms at scale, this is your opportunity to make a difference. You'll take ownership of our data platform roadmap, leading cross-functional teams to deliver powerful, scalable cloud-based solutions that support advanced analytics, insight generation, and smarter decision-making across DWP. Job Description: Own and evolve the product strategy and roadmap for cloud-based data platforms, ensuring alignment with DWP's transformation agenda. Oversee the transition from legacy data warehouses to new cloud-based architectures, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum business value. Advocate for user needs in complex backend processing environments, ensuring data products meet the demands of analytical, audit, and insight-focused users. Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Architects and the wider D&A and Digital Group to deliver integrated, scalable data solutions. Promote data-driven thinking and practices across the organisation, influencing teams to build with data in mind, aligned to our "hub and spoke" model. Support and guide other Product Managers within the Data Platforms team, building capability and consistency in product practices, while also providing line management to ensure their development, performance, and wellbeing. Engage confidently in discussions around both legacy and modern data ingestion, storage, and exploitation techniques. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours. Generous annual leave - at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave. Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme. Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year's continuous service. Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes. An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women's Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more. This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. Salary Information Pay for this role is from £72,664 to £77,740. Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary. Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater. See selection process for further details. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Caicy.sandford1@dwp.gov.uk. Stage 1: Application Your application will consist of four parts: 1. A Personal Details application form. 2. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed. 3. Personal statement - up to 1000 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below: A good understanding of modern data architectures e.g. Data Warehouses and Data Lakehouse, and an understanding of ETL/ELT processes. Experience of leading technical and non-technical stakeholder engagement to represent the user in all product and prioritisation decision making. Experience of working in an agile team with a focus on iterative engineering development. Strong communication skills for engaging with customers, engineering, stakeholders and senior executives. Proven ability to coach and develop multidisciplinary teams, manage performance, and build a collaborative high performing environment aligned with organisational goals. 4. Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of Product Management. Experience of leading a data platform product strategy and roadmap; showing the ability to translate technical and user needs into data platform capabilities and features, ensuring alignment to strategic business needs. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, and technical statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge. An initial sift may be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift. For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. Important Information You will be asked to complete your employment history. Any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form. Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered. If your employment history, personal statement or technical statement contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn. We recognise that AI may be helpful when applying for this role, but it is important to use it in the right way. Read the DWP AI Candidate Guide to understand how you can make the best use of GenAI while ensuring your application remains authentic and effective. Stage 2: Interview If you're successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed above. You will be asked to do a 10 minute presentation on a specific topic. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview. Interviews will take place from early July 2025. Sift and Interview dates to be confirmed. Further Information: Find out more about Working for DWP If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards. A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location. Security Clearance Requirement You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers. For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website. Reasonable Adjustment At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the "Reasonable Adjustments" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional. For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page. The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.