Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Senior Tech Lead
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Job Summary
Are you an experienced Technical Leader with a passion for automation excellence?
Would you love the opportunity to promote technical evolution within the organisation across multiple teams? If so, come join us as a Senior Tech Lead.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) core strategy is one of “Full Transformation”, however many of the Business Products that are tenants of at-risk Legacy IT Systems are old policy and/or closed benefit lines. Where a Business Product is not a suitable candidate for Full Transformation, we have defined a range of additional treatment options that we can use to mitigate the risks of Technical Debt across our core IT Systems, protecting our ability to pay Citizens.
The Legacy Tech Debt (LTD) workstream has been established to oversee the work needed to address our Technical Debt.
As a Senior Tech Lead, you will work at a strategic level and will drive application development and the coordination of technical teams to create and maintain the LTD replacement products and services for DWP. You will utilise your technical expertise in multiple domains to support multiple delivery teams in the development of technical product roadmaps and the management of product lifecycles, ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy.
You will provide technical input into discussions to direct the wider LTD delivery teams as required, based on your deep technical experience in areas such as package implementation, package configuration, customisation and integration, and solution architecture.
We’re looking for an outstanding, driven and passionate Senior Tech Lead, who wants to significantly contribute to development of critical digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are changing the face of public services, with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
If this sounds like you, apply today!
Job Description
As Senior Tech Lead, you will:
- Work across multiple LTD delivery teams as an engineering specialist defining and refining engineering standards.
- Provide technical input into strategic discussions to direct the wider LTD delivery teams as required, based on your deep experience in areas such as package implementation, package configuration, customisation and integration, solution architecture and experience of utilising externally hosted services.
- Co-ordinate and mentor technical teams to create and maintain products and services for DWP and deliver against roadmaps and plans.
- Manage and oversee product life-cycles ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy and non-functional requirements.
- Support work on critical LTD digital services, working across public cloud, On Premise hosting environments and externally hosted services.
- Lead and oversee governance and assurance submissions on technical designs for LTD packaged solutions and engage with key stakeholders to secure input and support for subsequent approvals.
- Gather a range of information from different sources and stakeholders to ensure effective decision making, clearly demonstrating a balanced approach to conclusions and recommendations. Especially by advising senior DWP stakeholders on the development of DWP technical strategy including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
- Review existing services and trends in industry to identify areas of improvements and formulate plans to deliver enhancements to enable the development, configuration and management of a quality service.
- Be responsible for mentoring and support of engineers and trainee engineers.
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Person Specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Richard.Hanley@dwp.gov.uk.
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Technical Breadth
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.
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
Pay for this role is from £75,026 to £92,522.
The maximum salary for the grade is £80,267, however a Digital Allowance of up to £12,255 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.
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 will maintain their current substantive salary.
Civil Servants who gain promotion will move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase applied to their current substantive salary, whichever is greater.
Any temporary allowances that you are currently in receipt of will not form part of the calculation to determine your pay. Any allowances that are in payment will cease when you move into your new role.
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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Stage 1: Application
Your Application Will Consist Of Four 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.
- Personal statement - up to 1000 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:
- Significant experience of version control systems as well as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines e.g. git with GitLab CI or Jenkins.
- Significant experience of Infrastructure-as-code and configuration of code for one or more cloud providers.
- Significant experience of collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Significant experience of ensuring adherence to industry standards for data security, disaster recovery and compliance.
- Significant experience of creating engineering tooling and solutions to optimise and align the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of our engineering teams.
- Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of: Technical Breadth. This statement should be used to provide example(s) of how you meet the criterion below:
- Significant experience of the full life cycle of a cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and patching (AWS).
Ensure that all examples provided in your statements 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 statements, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide.
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 will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.
If you do progress to a full sift, you will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your employment history and Personal Statement.
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.
Stage 2: Interview
If you’re successful at the sift stage, you’ll be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. During the interview, you’ll be assessed against the experience criteria listed under both the essential criteria and technical skill.
You will be asked to do a 10 minute presentation on a specific topic. Further details will be provided to
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