Senior Cloud Tech Lead — Hybrid, Platform Architect

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Pension contributions 28.97%

Generous holidays 26–31 days

Volunteer time off

Job summary

DWP Digital in the UK is seeking a Senior Tech Lead to steer engineering standards across multiple delivery teams. You will guide cloud, on‑premises and third‑party platforms, review designs, and mentor engineers to turn ideas into robust, scalable services.

The role blends hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence, supporting government digital services that touch the lives of millions, with hybrid working and competitive pay.

Qualifications

• Experience across full cloud-based platform lifecycle from design to deployment and patching.
• Strong background in securing data and ensuring regulatory/compliance adherence.
• Proven ability to create engineering tooling to improve SDLC efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Set engineering standards across multiple delivery teams and influence technology strategy.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with senior stakeholders to translate ideas into scalable services.
• Review solution designs and drive technical improvements across cloud, on‑premises and third‑party platforms.

Skills

AWS cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Cross‑functional teamwork

Data security & compliance

SDLC tooling

Tools

Git

GitLab CI

Jenkins

AWS

Job description

DWP Digital in the UK is seeking a Senior Tech Lead to steer engineering standards across multiple delivery teams. You will guide cloud, on‑premises and third‑party platforms, review designs, and mentor engineers to turn ideas into robust, scalable services.

The role blends hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence, supporting government digital services that touch the lives of millions, with hybrid working and competitive pay.