Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Senior Technical Architect
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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, these roles may be perfect for you!
We are looking for experienced Senior Technical Architects who are confident working on products and services in a complex digital environment, where you’ll be supporting major initiatives within DWP Digital.
You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to support the delivery of solutions, creating options and recommendations and providing expert advice to drive technology choices.
The roles will include the design, oversight and architecture governance of IT solutions that support DWP customers.
This is an exciting time to join us. You’ll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional products and services that work for everyone.
Job Description
A Senior Technical Architect works with multiple projects or teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking.
At This Role Level, You Will:
- Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions.
- Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government.
- Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment.
- Provide mentoring within teams.
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-prem, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration aspects.
- Architecture design informed through 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 use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent.
- Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice.
- Event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Aisha.gultasab@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 (Practitioner)
- Architect for the whole context (Practitioner)
- Community collaboration (Practitioner)
- Making architectural decisions (Practitioner)
- Strategy design (Practitioner)
- Technical design throughout the life cycle (Practitioner)
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.
Pay for this role is £57,946 to £68,205, subject to candidate type. In addition to this, the role can attract a Government Digital and Data allowance of up to £23,321. 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.
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External applicants
Pay for this role is £68,205 plus a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £23,321, subject to our assessment of capability at interview.
Internal and OGD applicants
Pay for the role is from £57,946 to £68,205, you may also be eligible for a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £23,321, 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.
Benefits
Alongside your salary, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £16,786 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.
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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.
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 both your CV and Personal Statement.
For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
Stage 2: Interview 1
If you’re successful at sift stage, you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams.
You Will Be Asked To Do a 10-minute Presentation To Further Assess Your Experience And To Assess The Technical Skill Of Skill "Architecture Communication (Practitioner)". The Presentation Should Focus On The Following:
- Present an example of a cloud-based event-driven microservices architecture design that you’ve defined and delivered, explaining how you translated business requirements into technical solutions including your key decisions, applied architectural standards, patterns and modelling techniques, and worked with delivery teams through the full lifecycle. Your presentation should include at least one suitable architectural view or diagram to support your example.
Interviews will take place from late November 2026. Interview dates to be confirmed.
Stage 3: Interview 2
Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical Skills:
- Architect for the whole Context (Practitioner)
- Community Collaboration (Practitioner)
- Making Architectural Decisions (Practitioner)
- Strategy Design (Practitioner)
- Technical Design throughout the life cycle (Practitioner)
Interviews will take place from early January 2027. Interview dates to be confirmed.
Further Information
Please note that for these vacancies we recommend that applicants seek specialist advice on their eligibility for Visa Sponsorship (if applicable) when considering whether to apply for any role. We can never guarantee sponsorship, requests will be considered in line with the relevant DWP guidance and Home Office policy in place at the time.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.
At the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
Find out more about working for DWP on the DWP Careers Hub.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact:
- Name : Aisha Gultasab
- Email : Aisha.gultasab@dwp.gov.uk
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