Job Vacancy Senior Technical Architect - Department for Work and Pensions - G7
England
Government Digital & Data
Job position Senior Technical Architect - Department for Work and Pensions - G7
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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.
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.
Candidate profile
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement, you should highlight your experience in line with the 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.
Working environment
These roles may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield.
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Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, this role will be based at Benton Park View from September 2025, and then at 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.
Do you want 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!
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Senior Technical Architect - Department for Work and Pensions - G7
Government Digital & Data