Senior Digital Project Manager

DWP Digital

West Midlands

Hybrid

GBP 57,946 - 68,205

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

28.97% employer pension contributions

Professional development opportunities

Interest-free loans for bike or season ticket

Job summary

A government technology department is seeking a Senior Digital Project Manager to oversee the delivery of large-scale digital projects. The successful candidate will lead teams to modernize systems, drive cloud adoption, and create low-code solutions while enhancing work-life balance through a hybrid working model. Successful applicants will be skilled communicators with experience in managing diverse stakeholders and navigating complex project landscapes.

Qualifications

Skills and experience as a digital project manager.
Proven ability to motivate peers.
Detailed working knowledge to spot project risks.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of complex digital change.
Manage cross-functional teams to deliver innovative services.
Coach and mentor team members to improve quality and ownership.

Skills

Digital project management

Influential communication

Conflict resolution

Risk management

Budget management

Adaptability

Job description

Overview

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Base pay range

Senior Digital Project Manager

Pay up to £68,205, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, large-scale digital change. Manage projects with multi-functional teams to deliver innovative services that support millions of people. Modernising legacy systems, driving cloud adoption, and creating low-code solutions while leading impactful change in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment. Take ownership of project controls, ensuring plans, risks, issues, and dependencies are managed effectively. Provide governance and reporting to senior leaders, influencing decisions at board level and resolving complex challenges with confidence. Work across a diverse stakeholder landscape, setting the pace for delivery and collaborating with internal teams and external suppliers to achieve success. Foster a positive team culture, coaching and mentoring to improve flow, quality, and ownership, while managing dynamics and resolving conflicts as needed. Continue your own development and support the wider Project Delivery community to establish best practices and standards.

What you will manage

Core Digital Service - Benefit Payment Services: lead technical delivery across complex digital environments, manage cross-cutting projects and infrastructure/software upgrades on legacy systems and services. Plan and coordinate patches and upgrades to keep applications secure in collaboration with security teams.
HCS Database Platforms: lead end-to-end delivery of multiple projects at pace, supporting the transition to a hybrid cloud model.
Low Code Team: deliver low-code solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, modernising services from scratch or remediating legacy applications. Replace unsupported VBA tools with secure, scalable PowerApps aligned to DWP's Digital Strategy.

What does a Digital Project Manager do in DWP Digital?

As a Senior Digital Project Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, large-scale digital change. You will own project controls, provide governance and reporting to senior leaders, and collaborate with internal teams and external suppliers to achieve success. You will coach and mentor to improve flow, quality and ownership, and support your own development and the wider community of project delivery.

Skills, knowledge and experience

Skills and experience as a digital project manager.
Influential communicator able to lead with impact across a wide range of stakeholders, tailoring messages to the audience.
Proven ability to motivate peers to deliver at pace and maintain a positive team environment; able to resolve difficult relationships and support teams to overcome conflicts.
Detailed working knowledge to spot project risks and blockers and to remove or escalate them quickly and effectively; identify themes and facilitate learning from experience.
Experience of procurement, commercial and supplier management and managing budgets. Creative and effective planner for internal and external to the team, optimizing speed to market, value and quality.
Adaptable with ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions and to cope with complexity and change.

Location and hybrid working

Location: Choose from Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield

Hybrid Working: Hybrid model – some time at home and some time in a hub.

Pay, Pension and Holidays

Pay: From £57,946 to £68,205

Pension: Civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%

Holidays: 26 days rising to 31 days, plus up to 3 extra flexi-time days per month and public holidays.

Benefits

Broad benefits package focused on work-life balance including:

Flexible working, flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
Time off volunteering and charitable giving
Inclusive culture with diversity and identity initiatives
Discounts, savings and lifestyle perks
Interest-free loans for bike or season ticket
Sports and social activities
Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities

Culture and recognition

Recognised as a diverse and inclusive employer with multiple industry accolades.

Process

Application and selection process is two stages:

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Interview: A single-stage online interview.
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