Senior Technical Architect

Pay up to £83,917, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

We are significantly growing our Architecture practice at DWP Digital to make sure we have the capability to design contemporary solutions that are secure, scalable, and built using the latest engineering approaches.

Join the team delivering some of Europe's largest digital transformation programmes, designing modern IT architecture that supports millions of users. As a Senior Technical Architect, you'll lead the design of complex systems and services, providing expert guidance, shaping technical solutions, and ensuring alignment with wider government strategy.

Working collaboratively across teams and stakeholders, you'll develop architecture options, govern technical quality, and mentor others-playing a key role in delivering user-focused, accessible digital services.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• 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.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £83,917.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies

• Time off volunteering and charitable giving

• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'

• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more

• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference

• Sports and social activities

• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

And we have an award-winning environment and culture:

• DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards

• Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024

• Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025

Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

• Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

• Interview: a two - stage interview online.

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