Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Lead Technical Architect
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This role may be located in one of the following locations; Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield or Birmingham.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.
For candidates requesting to work in Sheffield King’s Court, please note these roles will initially be based at King’s Court and then move to 1 West Bar by early 2028.
Job Summary
Do you want to work collaboratively designing modern IT architecture for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe?
Do you want to help support millions of our claimants by designing user-friendly digital services? If so, this role may be perfect for you!
We are looking for an experienced Lead Technical Architect who is confident working on data-focused products and services in a complex digital environment.
This role is within the Data Insights and Analytics area of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which is responsible for the provision of the tooling and infrastructure used by data professionals across the department undertaking data activities.
The primary focus for the role holder will be on the DWP Management information (MI) service, which provides the strategic capability for MI reporting and visualisations across the entire Department.
DWP has a large and growing portfolio of MI, with around 20,000 users of the service, from operational managers to the Secretary of State.
This is an exciting time to join us. You'll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional internal MI and Analytics products and services that work for everyone.
Job Description
A Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) leads at the highest level and is responsible for ensuring the strategy is agreed and followed.
At This Role Level, You Will:
- Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations.
- Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation.
- Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
- Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation.
- Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high-risk issues, or delivering architecture design.
- Work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders (engineers, policy, legal, and other Digital colleagues, including cross-government colleagues where necessary) to create solution designs that meet user needs for MI and Analytics across DWP.
- Manage a small team of Technical Architects and the associated architecture design backlog.
- Ensure that architecture design artefacts are produced to agreed quality standards and timescales and presented effectively at governance forums.
Person Specification
When Giving Details In Your Employment History And Personal Statement You Should Highlight Your Experience In Line With Essential Criteria Below:
- Architecture design across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database and integration aspects.
- Architecture design informed through the use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
- Architecture design working with project delivery teams within agile, waterfall and hybrid environments throughout the lifecycle, from concept to go-live.
- Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
- Architecture design through the use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent solutions.
- Data Integration: Knowledge of integrating data from disparate sources (ERP systems, CRM systems, IoT devices, etc.), real-time data pipelines and batch processing.
- Analytics & Reporting: Data warehousing, data lakes, business intelligence (BI) and analytics technologies (e.g. Power BI), design patterns, tools and best practice.
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If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Oliver.Canham1@dwp.gov.uk
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical Skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Architecture Communication (Expert)
- Architect for the whole context (Practitioner)
- Community collaboration (Practitioner)
- Making architectural decisions (Expert)
- Strategy design (Practitioner)
- Technical design throughout the life cycle (Expert)
Salary Information
Alongside your salary of £75,026, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £21,735 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
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.
Hybrid Working
This 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.
If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.
If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.
Salary Information
The role is part of the Government Digital and Data profession and utilises an enhanced Government Digital and Data Pay Framework linked to capability which provides access to a Government Digital and Data allowance.
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Pay for this role is £75,026 to £80,267, subject to candidate type. In addition to this, the role can attract a Government Digital and Data allowance of up to £21,657. Please see additional info below regarding candidate type. The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills as demonstrated in the selection process. Government Digital and Data Allowance is a discretionary non-consolidated, non-pensionable allowance.
External applicants
Pay for this role is £75,026 plus a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £21,657, subject to our assessment of capability at interview.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on our assessment of your capability based on the evidence you provide at interview against the listed Technical Skills for the role. There is no negotiation at offer stage.
Internal and OGD applicants
Pay for the role is from £75,026 to £80,267, you may also be eligible for a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £21,657, subject to our assessment of capability at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current base salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion should either move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase to their base salary; whichever would be the greater.
In addition to your base salary a Government Digital and Data Allowance may be payable based on our assessment of your capability. Our offer to successful candidates will be based on the evidence you provide at interview against the listed Technical Skills for the role. There is no negotiation at offer stage.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Stage 1: Application
Your Application Will Consist Of Three Parts:
- A Personal Details application form.
- Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed based on the essential criteria.
- Personal statement - up to 1250 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person specification.
Ensure that all examples provided in your statement are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. If you choose to use gen-AI to support your statement, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide.
The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria.
You will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for
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