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Senior Outcome Technology Delivery Manager
Salford

Who we are...The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports. Every day, our teams across the UK and beyond deliver outcomes to improve citizens’ lives.To carry out our work effectively and fairly, we’re committed to representing the UK in all its diversity. There’s no one type of person working at the Home Office. Just like in wider society, everyone here’s different. We believe that different backgrounds, perspectives and voices add up to richer, fuller thinking that helps us deliver fairer, better outcomes.Our work is challenging, high profile and rewarding. Delivering it is a team effort, and we rely on talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences. We’re guided in what we do by our core values: compassion, respect, courage and collaboration.Why join the Home Office Digital team?The Home Office Digital team enables the Home Office to keep the UK safe and secure. Our teams do this by designing, building and developing the services that help people apply for visas or passports, support policing and counter-terrorism operations, and protect the UK’s borders.We are a friendly community of tech and digital teams who will support and challenge you to contribute. Our culture is inclusive, progressive and we value the unique contributions everyone makes. Our tech strategy is also clear: we work in agile product, user-centred teams with cloud native and interdisciplinary working as the focus. Digital inclusion, accessibility and forming a technical community across our departments are also key… this is how we strive to produce exceptional outcomes.Our main delivery centres are in Manchester, Sheffield, Croydon, Glasgow, and we also have offices in Southport, Westminster, Liverpool, west London and north London.The Home Office Digital team in Manchester is based in Soapworks, one of the North West’s most iconic commercial regeneration projects. Located within the Media City boundary, 1½ miles from Manchester City Centre and a 2-minute walk from the Exchange Quay Metrolink stop, the office is well placed for an easy commute.Learn more about our work and our organisation.Our benefits...As well as offering the opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives, a career with the Home Office comes with a range of amazing benefits.Take a closer look at the benefits on offer.Join us and make a difference...If you’re looking for an exciting digital career where you can make an impact, whilst using cutting edge tech to help develop and enhance products and services at the heart of government, we want to hear from you!You’ll find a supportive environment and opportunities to enhance your CV on projects that will help you stand out from the crowd. Take a look at the roles on offer.Interested in finding out more about life at the Home Office? Read our blogs to learn more about our people and the brilliant work they do.Follow us on LinkedIn and X (Twitter).Sign-up on our website to receive emails with information about careers at the Home Office.

Home Office Digital
Head of Secure Design
Manchester

Digital With PurposeDo you want to play a pivotal role in delivering some of the country’s most important tech projects? We are Digital With Purpose. That’s digital with people, passion and progress at our heart. We’re recruiting innovative, curious, and enthusiastic digital specialists who want to be part of our huge transformation.DWP Digital build and maintain user-friendly digital services for the Department for Work and Pensions, that enable millions of people to access the help, advice and financial support they need. Whether our users need to claim benefit, get help finding a job, or understand their State Pension, we’re the team designing, developing and delivering the world-class digital services they need.Own your careerThe large-scale digital transformation we’re undergoing requires a wide range of skills. We have over 5,000 experts working on a variety of important projects in multidisciplinary teams across the UK.  If you want a career with a real work-life balance, that blends challenge and opportunity with flexibility and support, you’ll find it here. We need people with experience in engineering, data, product design, architecture and much more. Opportunities to work with us range from early talent and apprenticeships that will enable you to grow with DWP Digital, all the way up to senior roles that will allow you to shape the future direction of the organisation. Our dedication to development means you’ll have ample opportunity to learn and thrive at the cutting-edge of the industry.An award-winning teamIn 2022, our award highlights include being awarded Kong’s Top Public Sector Innovation Award and the Red Hat Innovation Award. We also won the Organisational Exit from the Pandemic category at the UK IT Industry Awards and were highly commended for Digital Transformation Project of the Year. At the Civil Service Awards, we won Best Use of Data and Technology and won the cross-government award One Civil Service for collaborating on issuing cost of living payments.Where you’ll workWe have seven digital hubs located across the country – Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. They are designed to enable agile ways of working, allowing teams to collaborate to deliver world-class government digital services.Our Manchester hub is in St Peter’s Square. Right in the heart of the city, it’s easily accessible by tram, bus or rail.On-site facilities include a café, cycle shelter, showers, and Wudu washing facilities. It's also home to our user experience lab and UX command centre.We recognise that a healthy work-life balance is important. That’s why we’ve embraced a hybrid working approach that allows DWP Digital employees to spend up to 60% of their week working from home.Find out more about jobs with us. Visit our careers site today, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

DWP Digital
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Our story so farWe started life as a mortgage listings company back in 1993. Nowadays we’re a data-driven marketplace, providing offers to customers that they can't get elsewhere. In all the time that’s gone by we’ve never wavered from our purpose - to help save households money. We were committed to it in 1993 and we’re committed to it now. Just on a much bigger scale. In 2023 alone we helped our users to save an estimated £2.7bn on their household bills. And we’re not stopping there.Our group of leading and trusted brands give our customers and users a complete toolkit of the services and products they need to save and grow their money. Leading innovationSince the launch of the MoneySuperMarket website in 1999 we’ve continued to expand our range of products. Today we operate a modern cloud-based technology platform offering security, stability and scalability. With a single view of our 14.2 million customers across their key interactions with us, we can serve them better with extraordinary levels of personalisation.With an investment of over £60m, our Reinvent strategy optimises our customer journeys and leverages our technology platform. Reinvent leads the way for the innovation of price comparison.Engineering at MONY GroupUsing a wide range of modern technologies and programming languages, our technology team of around 200 colleagues brings our purpose to life. They build, test and deploy products that help households save money and deliver the personalised experiences they love. You can find out more about our technologies and our approaches here.Never a better time to joinIn a technology landscape that’s constantly changing, we’re focusing on constantly evolving – to go beyond price comparison. We’re driving forwards to offer our customers more personalised financial management than anywhere else. Through better collaboration and use of data, more experimentation, and truly autonomous teams, we can make it happen.With our sights on transforming our customer experience and embracing the latest technology trends, we’ve brought innovation closer than ever. So our teams can get inspired, empowered, and overcome every challenge to give us the edge over our competitors. And grow their careers at the same time.So if you’re ready to dive into a workplace that’s full of challenges, innovation, and opportunities to make mistakes, and make it better – you’ll find your perfect fit here.A place to be youOurs is an inclusive environment, where everyone can be their true selves and where everyone’s voice is valued. This diversity of thought—and of different perspectives—helps us thrive as individuals and together as a team.  It champions creativity and drives the innovation that helps save our customers money. And it represents the diversity of customers we’re here to help. You can read more about what that means to us here. 

MONY Group
Senior Software engineer

Our story so farWe started life as a mortgage listings company back in 1993. Nowadays we’re a data-driven marketplace, providing offers to customers that they can't get elsewhere. In all the time that’s gone by we’ve never wavered from our purpose - to help save households money. We were committed to it in 1993 and we’re committed to it now. Just on a much bigger scale. In 2023 alone we helped our users to save an estimated £2.7bn on their household bills. And we’re not stopping there.Our group of leading and trusted brands give our customers and users a complete toolkit of the services and products they need to save and grow their money. Leading innovationSince the launch of the MoneySuperMarket website in 1999 we’ve continued to expand our range of products. Today we operate a modern cloud-based technology platform offering security, stability and scalability. With a single view of our 14.2 million customers across their key interactions with us, we can serve them better with extraordinary levels of personalisation.With an investment of over £60m, our Reinvent strategy optimises our customer journeys and leverages our technology platform. Reinvent leads the way for the innovation of price comparison.Engineering at MONY GroupUsing a wide range of modern technologies and programming languages, our technology team of around 200 colleagues brings our purpose to life. They build, test and deploy products that help households save money and deliver the personalised experiences they love. You can find out more about our technologies and our approaches here.Never a better time to joinIn a technology landscape that’s constantly changing, we’re focusing on constantly evolving – to go beyond price comparison. We’re driving forwards to offer our customers more personalised financial management than anywhere else. Through better collaboration and use of data, more experimentation, and truly autonomous teams, we can make it happen.With our sights on transforming our customer experience and embracing the latest technology trends, we’ve brought innovation closer than ever. So our teams can get inspired, empowered, and overcome every challenge to give us the edge over our competitors. And grow their careers at the same time.So if you’re ready to dive into a workplace that’s full of challenges, innovation, and opportunities to make mistakes, and make it better – you’ll find your perfect fit here.A place to be youOurs is an inclusive environment, where everyone can be their true selves and where everyone’s voice is valued. This diversity of thought—and of different perspectives—helps us thrive as individuals and together as a team.  It champions creativity and drives the innovation that helps save our customers money. And it represents the diversity of customers we’re here to help. You can read more about what that means to us here. 

MONY Group

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February 2027

Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Festival Launch Breakfast
MD Event
In person
8:30 - 11:00
8 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Future Innovators Day 2027 - Software Development & Engineering
MD Event
In person
9:00 - 17:30
8 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: From Manchester to the World
MD Event
In person
15:00 - 18:00
8 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Good Growth
MD Event
In person
9:00 - 13:00
9 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Deep Tech Manchester
MD Event
In person
15:00 - 17:00
9 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Growth Summit
MD Event
In person
15:30 - 17:00
9 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Ecommerce Industry Keynote
MD Event
In person
17:00 - 18:30
9 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Talent Fair
MD Event
In person
10:00 - 15:00
10 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Cyber & Defence Leadership Roundtable
MD Event
In person
15:30 - 17:00
10 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Fortify Industry Keynote
MD Event
In person
17:00 - 18:30
10 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Executive Breakfast
MD Event
In person
8:30 - 11:00
11 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Leadership Roundtable
MD Event
In person
16:00 - 17:30
11 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Manchester Digital FEAST
MD Event
In person
18:00 - 23:00
11 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: Croissants and Quantum
MD Event
In person
10:30 - 12:00
12 February 2027
Manchester Digital Festival 2027: AI Café
MD Event
In person
15:30 - 17:00
12 February 2027
“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs
Digital Futures @ The University of Manchester
In person
13:00 - 15:00
25 February 2027

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