Senior Technical Lead

Senior Technical Lead Pay up to £92,522 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We're looking for an outstanding Tech Lead, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.

Shape the technical direction of large-scale cloud platforms and services, working with Product and Delivery teams to solve complex challenges and deliver better outcomes for users.

Provide technical leadership across engineering teams, driving modern ways of working through DevOps, automation and cloud technologies.

Help teams build secure, resilient services while improving performance, reliability and operational excellence.

Influence senior stakeholders, support architectural decisions, and develop engineering capability through coaching and mentoring.

Work across product, security, infrastructure and operations teams, ensuring services are scalable, compliant and ready for the future.

• Significant experience designing and delivering secure, cloud-based solutions (AWS and/or Azure) in large-scale enterprise or government environments.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate complex organisations to drive technical, service, and strategic improvements.
• Strong DevOps expertise, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform), automation, and improving observability and live service support.
• Experience providing technical leadership for the design and delivery of technology solutions, ensuring alignment with architecture standards, security requirements, governance processes, and organisational objectives.
• Experience leading and supporting Engineers in multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment and sharing knowledge and good practice with the wider organisation. Experience delivering technology change on enterprise platforms that improves user experience, service quality, and business outcomes.

Wages: Pay of up to £92,522. Pension: £21,000+ employer contributions (28.97%). Holidays: 26 days rising to 31 days over time, plus up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time, and all public holidays.

Additional benefits:

• Flexible working, flexible hours and flex-friendly policies.
• Time off for volunteering and charitable giving.
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more.
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket.
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
• Work-life balance focus and inclusive culture.

You will join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.