Lead Technical Architect - Department for Work and Pensions - G6

Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

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.

About the job

Job summary

This is an exciting architect career development opportunity to join the DWP Corporate Centre Services (CCS) team, part of succession planning within CCS senior leadership.

The role offers wider architecture strategy, design and management experience across the range of GDD technical skills.

CCS manages the implementation of typically Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) systems (including platform build, and integration) for Finance, Commercials, People & Place, DWP Estates and Workplace Transformation.

As the Lead Technical Architect, you will be accountable to the Deputy Director to continue to drive the design and implementation of services.

This is a key leadership role, working alongside the Senior Leadership Team. We are looking for an experienced leader that is passionate about delivering impactful solutions that touch everyone within DWP.

Job description

A lead technical architect leads at the highest level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed.

At this role level, you will:

• Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations.
• Provides technical leadership and architectural design.
• 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.
• Design and issue specification of end-to-end services spanning multiple service providers.

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 [including SaaS] 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.
• Mentoring and/or leadership of architects, providing oversight and technical leadership across multiple projects.
• Vendor and/or technology evaluation and selection exercises, and involvement with proof of concepts.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact [email protected].