Senior Data Architect - DWP - G7

Location

The Citizen Information team role can be located in either: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Sheffield.
The Children and Families team role will be located in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

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.

About the job

Job summary

Do you want work collaboratively designing modern IT architecture for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe?

If so, this role may be perfect for you!

We are looking for experienced Senior Data Architects who are confident working on data-focused products/services in a complex digital environment, where they’ll be supporting major initiatives across DWP Digital.

These roles will involve collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to support the delivery of solutions, creating options and recommendations, and providing expert advice to drive technology choice decisions.

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

Job description

A Senior Data Architect works with multiple projects or teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking. At this role level, you will: 

• design data models and metadata systems.
• help lead data architects to interpret an organisation’s needs.
• provide oversight and advice to other data architects who are designing and producing data artefacts.
• design and support the management of data dictionaries.
• make sure that your teams are working to the standards set for the organisation by the lead data architects.
• work with technical architects to make sure that an organisation’s systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture.

Person specification

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

• Data Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
• Presenting data architecture design to technical governance forums.
• Data Architecture Design: Data Modelling, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Data Governance
• Event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards.
• Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools and best practice (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Agile delivery methodologies and best practice.
• DevOps: Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) delivery methodologies, tools and best practice.
• Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact caicy.sandford1@dwp.gov.uk.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Working Together

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Communicating data - Practitioner
• Data governance (Data Architect) - Practitioner
• Data modelling - Practitioner
• Data standards (Data Architect) - Practitioner
• Metadata management - Practitioner
• Turning business problems into data design - Practitioner