DWP Digital
Lead Technical Architect
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Job Title: Lead Technical Architect
Pay up to £75,026 - £96,683 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
Shape the future of one of Europe's largest digital transformation programmes.
Are you passionate about designing modern, scalable, and secure technology solutions that make a real difference to millions of people?
We're looking for talented Lead Technical Architects to play a pivotal role in defining and delivering architecture for critical digital services across DWP Digital. Working within a complex and evolving technology landscape, you'll help shape strategic technology decisions that support some of the UK's most important public services.
Role Overview
As a Lead Technical Architect, you'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, senior stakeholders, and architecture communities to design innovative solutions, provide expert technical leadership, and influence technology direction across major programmes and products.
You'll be responsible for:
- Driving solution design
- Ensuring architectural integrity and governance
- Helping teams deliver secure, resilient, and user-centred services at scale
This is an exciting opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, shape enterprise-wide technology choices, and contribute to services that support millions of citizens every day.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, senior stakeholders, and architecture communities
- Design innovative solutions
- Provide expert technical leadership
- Influence technology direction across major programmes and products
- Drive solution design
- Ensure architectural integrity and governance
- Help teams deliver secure, resilient, and user-centred services at scale
Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
- Proven expertise in designing enterprise-scale architectures across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, encompassing networking, security, infrastructure, applications, data, and integration services.
- Ability to apply architectural principles, patterns, standards, technology roadmaps, and industry best practices to deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions.
- Proven experience providing architectural leadership across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery environments, guiding solutions from discovery and design through to deployment and live service.
- Capability in translating complex business requirements into robust technical architectures, with clear traceability, stakeholder engagement, and influence over technology decisions.
- Proficiency in architecture modelling and solution design, using recognised frameworks, techniques, and tools to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven experience designing microservices, API-led, and event-driven architectures, applying modern integration patterns, messaging, and data streaming approaches to deliver resilient, high-performing digital services at scale.
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Your Role
As Lead Technical Architects, you'll be responsible for shaping and governing technology solutions across major digital programmes - that means providing architectural leadership, influencing strategic decisions, and driving the adoption of modern technologies and best practices.
You'll work with senior stakeholders across DWP, influencing technology decisions, building consensus on architectural approaches, and ensuring solutions deliver the greatest value for users and the business.
You'll be empowered to identify opportunities to modernise services and drive digital transformation. You'll use architectural best practice, emerging technologies, and industry standards to solve complex business challenges.
This is a role where your technical leadership and your ability to communicate complex information across different teams, programmes, and business areas will ensure the solutions DWP are building are scalable, secure, resilient, and fit for the future.
You'll be a senior member of the architecture community here. You'll mentor and support other architects, sharing knowledge, promoting best practice, and helping teams understand how their work contributes to wider organisational goals and strategic outcomes.
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Details. Wages. Perks.
- Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, or Sheffield, 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: Up to £96,683. A salary of £75,026 plus a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £21,657, subject to our assessment of capability at interview.
- Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £21,735 per year.
Benefits
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, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring, and career progression opportunities
Our Environment and Culture
DWP has been recognised as 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, and Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards.
Application Process
We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages:
- Apply: Complete your application on Civil Service Jobs.
- Interview: A single stage interview online.
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