Are you ready to build modern, cloud-first systems that replace legacy services and shape the future of how government manages billions in public money? As a Senior Software Engineer in DWP Digital, you''ll join one of our Debt Solutions teams, helping to deliver large-scale, greenfield transformation programmes. These teams are responsible for replacing long-standing, high-risk legacy debt systems with modern and resilient digital platforms that will serve the UK for the next decade and beyond. You''ll play a critical role in designing and building scalable, secure services using technologies like Java (21+), Azure, Kubernetes and modern integration platforms. Working in a highly collaborative, agile environment, you''ll partner with engineers, architects and product teams to deliver systems that recover approximately £3 billion each year. This is a rare opportunity to help shape an evolving engineering capability and leave a lasting impact on critical national services. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Strong hands-on experience building software with Java (ideally Java 21+) in a cloud-based environment such as Azure Experience leading engineering teams, setting technical direction, and supporting less experienced engineers to grow and improve Experience working in agile teams to build digital services, collaborating with product managers, delivery managers and other specialists Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (like Azure, AWS or GCP), c