Senior Software Engineer — Cloud-Native & Hybrid Leadership

DWP Digital; Sunderland; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off volunteering and charitable

I Can Be Me in DWP

Discounts and savings

Interest-free travel loans

Professional development

Job summary

DWP Digital is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the future of digital services within the UK government. You will design, build and support secure, scalable cloud-based platforms, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, PM and delivery.

Expect leadership, mentoring, and hands-on engineering with modern cloud tech including AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD. You will influence technical strategy, drive best practices, and deliver impactful services used by millions

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design scalable, secure solutions aligned with strategy and governance.
• Ability to lead cross-functional agile teams to shape technical direction.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, containers and IaC approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Design and deliver secure, resilient, scalable cloud-based services.
• Drive architectural decisions and ensure maintainability and interoperability.

Skills

Architectural design

Lead in Agile teams

Cloud-native

CI/CD & DevOps

Security & governance

Performance & resilience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

DWP Digital is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the future of digital services within the UK government. You will design, build and support secure, scalable cloud-based platforms, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, PM and delivery.

Expect leadership, mentoring, and hands-on engineering with modern cloud tech including AWS, Kubernetes and CI/CD. You will influence technical strategy, drive best practices, and deliver impactful services used by millions