Lead Technical Architect - Department for Work and Pensions - G6

Location

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

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.

For candidates requesting to work in Sheffield King’s Court, please note these roles will initially be based at King’s Court and then move to 1 West Bar by early 2028.

About the job

Job summary

Do you want to 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, this role may be perfect for you!

We are looking for an experienced Lead Technical Architect who is confident working on data-focused products and services in a complex digital environment.

This role is within the Data Insights and Analytics area of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which is responsible for the provision of the tooling and infrastructure used by data professionals across the department undertaking data activities.

The primary focus for the role holder will be on the DWP Management information (MI) service, which provides the strategic capability for MI reporting and visualisations across the entire Department.

DWP has a large and growing portfolio of MI, with around 20,000 users of the service, from operational managers to the Secretary of State.

This is an exciting time to join us. You'll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional internal MI and Analytics products and services that work for everyone.

Job description

A Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) leads at the highest level and is responsible for ensuring the strategy is agreed and followed.

At this role level, you will:

• 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.
• Work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders (engineers, policy, legal, and other Digital colleagues, including cross-government colleagues where necessary) to create solution designs that meet user needs for MI and Analytics across DWP.
• Manage a small team of Technical Architects and the associated architecture design backlog.
• Ensure that architecture design artefacts are produced to agreed quality standards and timescales and presented effectively at governance forums.

Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

• Architecture design across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database and integration aspects.
• Architecture design informed through the 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 the use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent solutions.
• Data Integration: Knowledge of integrating data from disparate sources (ERP systems, CRM systems, IoT devices, etc.), real-time data pipelines and batch processing.
• Analytics & Reporting: Data warehousing, data lakes, business intelligence (BI) and analytics technologies (e.g. Power BI), design patterns, tools and best practice.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Oliver.Canham1@dwp.gov.uk