Lead IT Asset Manager

DWP Digital; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading government digital service provider in the UK seeks a Lead IT Asset Manager to oversee IT Asset Management and optimize digital assets across cloud platforms. This role requires strong leadership and strategic insight to drive value from cloud investments while ensuring compliance with regulations. The position offers a salary up to £80,267, hybrid working, a robust pension, and generous leave, alongside a supportive work culture.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Time off for volunteering

Discounts and savings on shopping

Interest-free loans for transport

Qualifications

• Experience managing large-scale cloud contracts.
• Proven track record in financial analysis and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with FinOps principles and tools.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and lead a team on FinOps and IT Asset Management.
• Oversee IT Asset Management capability for legal and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with Finance, Commercial, and Delivery leaders for cloud spend optimization.

Skills

Commercial Strategy & Governance

Stakeholder Engagement & Financial Alignment

Technical Leadership & FinOps Integration

Financial Analysis & Insight

Risk Management & Compliance

FinOps Tools & Cloud Platforms

Tools

CloudHealth

Cloudability

Job description

Lead IT Asset Manager

Pay up to £80,267, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Shape how DWP manages its digital assets at scale.

In this leadership role, you'll define strategy and lead a team focused on FinOps and IT Asset Management across one of Europe's largest cloud estates. From optimising spend and ensuring compliance to building real‑time dashboards and influencing cloud contract decisions, you'll make sure our AWS, Azure, and OCI environments deliver maximum value. This is a high‑impact role at the heart of DWP's digital transformation.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Lead IT Asset Manager to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

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.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

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?

• Commercial Strategy & Governance – You can manage large‑scale cloud contracts and frameworks within regulated environments, leading commercial strategy and negotiations to ensure value for money and compliance with contractual and regulatory obligations.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Financial Alignment – You can build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across technology, commercial, and finance functions, driving alignment on cloud budgets, forecasts, and financial targets for digital delivery.
• Technical Leadership & FinOps Integration – You can lead the integration of FinOps principles into engineering teams and digital delivery environments, defining and implementing financial governance mechanisms that support technical decisions and cloud operations.
• Financial Analysis & Insight – You can use analytical tools and techniques to transform complex financial data into clear insights, trends, and actionable recommendations, presenting performance data to senior leaders to influence strategic decisions.
• Risk Management & Compliance – You can manage financial risk within technical and operational environments, ensuring compliance with government and departmental financial policies.
• FinOps Tools & Cloud Platforms – You have hands‑on experience using FinOps platforms and tools (e.g., CloudHealth, Cloudability, native tooling) to manage and optimise spend across cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or OCI.

You and your role

We're looking for a Lead IT Asset Manager to shape how DWP manages and optimises its digital assets across one of Europe's largest cloud environments. This is a key leadership role within Hybrid Cloud Services, where you'll define strategy, set standards, and lead a team focused on FinOps and IT Asset Management. Your work will ensure cloud investments deliver real value, driving cost transparency and empowering teams to make smarter, cost‑aware decisions.

You’ll oversee the full IT Asset Management capability, covering legal, regulatory, and contractual compliance for software and hardware across the DWP estate. Your remit spans AWS, Azure and OCI environments, and includes implementing policies, managing renewals, auditing assets, and reporting on compliance. You’ll also lead the development of real‑time dashboards and tooling to monitor cloud usage, costs and budget adherence, providing actionable insights to engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Beyond governance, you’ll partner with Finance, Commercial and Delivery leaders to influence cloud contract decisions, optimise spend and forecast costs. You’ll mentor engineers and analysts, embed financial accountability into technical operations and drive continuous improvement across processes and systems. This is a high‑impact role at the heart of DWP's digital transformation, requiring strong leadership, strategic thinking and a passion for delivering value at scale.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle, 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 £80,267.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £23,253 per year.

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.
• 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 Digital Awards

Process:

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

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.