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Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) - DWP - G6

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Manchester Digital

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

OverviewJob summary: 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! We are looking for Lead Technical Architects experienced in application design, 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.

Responsibilities

Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations.

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.

Person specificationWhen providing 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 Akhtar.ali1@dwp.gov.uk.

Behaviours

Leadership

Working Together

Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

Architecture communication (Expert)

Architect for the whole context (Practitioner)

Community collaboration (Practitioner)

Making architectural decisions (Expert)

Strategy design (Practitioner)

Technical design throughout the life cycle (Expert)

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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