Technical Lead - DWP - G7
Government Digital & Data -
Job summary
Are you a Software Engineer or Technical Lead with experience of working with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to create cutting edge, innovative cloud-based solutions in a business-critical team?
If so, The Garage has an exciting opportunity for you!
To date, The Garage has developed and deployed over 75 solutions that have processed over 50 million transactions. Recognised as a government leader in intelligent automation, The Garage is also acknowledged as leading the way across industry.
As a deep technical specialist, you will regularly communicate with a range of technical resources, including Architects, Enterprise Infrastructure teams and Product Owners, to ensure alignment to standards and the delivery of customer-focused products that meet business needs throughout their life.
Job description
As a Technical Lead in The Garage, you will be accountable for the day-to-day product development and coordination of multiple technical teams to deliver and maintain products and services for DWP.
The Technical Lead will provide technical input into business discussions as required based on their deep technical experience in areas such as software development, site reliability engineering, DevOps, and solution architecture.
To deliver innovative, robust, secure, scalable and cost-effective automation products to be proud of, the Technical Lead will utilise a blend of the latest techniques and technologies such as event-driven architecture, microservice architecture, serverless computing, containerisation, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and optical character recognition.
To help you really make a difference, you’ll be using the best tools and equipment for the job. We plan and track work in Jira, we document in SharePoint, we communicate using Teams and Slack, we commit, build and deploy code with GitLab, we use best-in-class cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and we do it all on MacBook Pro devices.
To support you in your role, you’ll have access to some fantastic learning and development resources; conferences with industry expert speakers, comprehensive instructor-led training, and subscriptions to digital training solutions such as Cloud Academy. You will also have access to support through direct Slack channels with our partners such as AWS, UiPath and MongoDB for every day on the job learning. You will:
- Provide technical insight to wider DWP business discussions to contribute to the development of new products and/or the exploration of new technical solutions.
- Advising and assisting in the formulation of application development plans and guiding others on how they relate to the wider DWP strategy.
- Consult and co-operate with internal and external stakeholders where necessary to achieve mutually acceptable solutions.
- Acting on own authority to manage and provide direction to projects, maintaining information and analysis used to justify decisions.
- Providing definitive advice amongst diverse teams, negotiating, persuading and gaining consensuses and cooperation on contentious issues to drive development forward.
- Ensure product development is aligned with and delivers wider DWP technical strategy.
- Work closely with delivery teams to ensure alignment to DWP standards and best practice for all product development and support.
- Work with production, security and infrastructure teams to ensure highly resilient, secure, scalable and available products.
Person specification
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Lead criterion - Experience of creating cloud-based solutions using JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, Docker. *
- Experience of communicating effectively with stakeholders at multiple levels within an organisation.
- Experience of leading multiple agile teams delivering a diverse range of projects.
- Experience of building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Awareness of open-source AI/ML models and how to utilise them in cloud-based solutions.
Your application, and what is required from each section is listed in the Selection Process Details.
*An initial sift may be conducted using the lead criterion stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift.
