Lead Technical Architect

DWP Digital; Leeds; On-site; GBP 84,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A government digital services provider in Leeds is seeking a Lead Technical Architect to guide MI and Analytics design, manage a team, and collaborate across departments. This role offers pay up to £99,836, a competitive pension contribution, and a hybrid working model. Strong architectural skills in various environments and data integration expertise are required.

Benefits

Competitive salary

28.9% employer pension contributions

Generous leave package starting at 26 days

Flexible working hours

Volunteering and charitable giving time off

Interest-free loans for commuting

Professional development opportunities

Sports and social activities

Qualifications

• Experience designing architecture across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Ability to apply architecture principles and standards.
• Experience with agile, waterfall, and hybrid environments in project teams.
• Skill in translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Familiarity with architecture modelling techniques and tools.
• Experience integrating data from disparate sources.
• Knowledge of designing for data privacy and compliance.
• Ability to design and implement data warehousing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design for MI and Analytics services.
• Manage a small team of architects and guide design solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for robust architecture.
• Provide expert advice on tooling and resolve technical debt.
• Share best practices across DWP Digital.

Skills

Architecture Across Environments

Principled Architecture Design

End-to-End Delivery Support

Business-to-Technical Translation

Architecture Modelling

Data Integration

Data Security & Compliance

Analytics & Reporting

Job description

Overview

As a Lead Technical Architect, you'll guide the design of MI and Analytics solutions that support thousands of users, from frontline teams to ministers. You'll manage a small team, ensure designs are secure, scalable and aligned with strategy, and collaborate across engineering, policy, legal and government teams. You'll also advise on tooling, resolve technical debt, and share best practice across DWP Digital.

Pay up to £99,836, plus 28.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid working with 60% home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

We are looking for a Lead Technical Architect to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're driving a once-in-a-generation transformation of government services.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to build and maintain innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

Delivery. Work. Projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design for Management Information (MI) and Analytics services, two strategic capabilities that support thousands of users, from operational teams to ministers. You'll work across complex digital environments, combining sensitive data handling, cloud security and live service integration.
• Manage a small team of architects and guide the design of solutions that meet user needs, align with strategy, and support digital transformation.
• Collaborate with engineers, policy teams, legal, and cross-government colleagues to ensure architecture decisions are robust, scalable and secure.
• Provide expert advice on tooling, drive resolution of technical and data debt, and ensure architecture artefacts are delivered to high standards.
• Help shape best practice and share reference architectures across DWP Digital.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Architecture Across Environments - You can design architecture across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments, covering networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration layers.
• Principled Architecture Design - You can apply architecture principles, patterns, technical radars, and standards to guide consistent and scalable design decisions.
• End-to-End Delivery Support - You can work with project teams across agile, waterfall, and hybrid environments, supporting architecture design from initial concept through to go-live.
• Business-to-Technical Translation - You can translate business requirements into technical solutions with clear traceability that stakeholders can understand and validate.
• Architecture Modelling - You can use architecture modelling techniques and tools to design and communicate solutions effectively.
• Data Integration - You can integrate data from disparate sources including ERP systems, CRM platforms, and IoT devices, using both real-time pipelines and batch processing approaches.
• Data Security & Compliance - You can design for data privacy, disaster recovery, and backup, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and policies.
• Analytics & Reporting - You can design and implement data warehousing and data lake solutions, and apply BI and analytics technologies like Power BI using best practices and proven design patterns.

Details, Wages, Perks

You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever you prefer.

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work and collaborate flexibly. We work a hybrid model - you'll be in the office about 60% of the time, and 40% home working.

We offer competitive pay of up to £99,836.

You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth over 28.9%, and a generous leave package starting at 26 days.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and family-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.

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