Senior Tech Lead

DWP Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Pension contributions

Job summary

DWP Digital in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Senior Tech Lead to drive engineering standards across multiple delivery teams. You will shape technology strategy and guide engineers through complex cloud and on-premise challenges, ensuring robust, scalable digital services.

You will combine hands-on technical leadership with mentoring of engineers and collaboration with senior stakeholders to translate ideas into robust solutions that support the government’s critical services.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with cloud-based platform lifecycles (design, deployment, patching) on AWS.
• Strong background in version control and CI/CD tools (Git, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and multi-cloud configuration.

Responsibilities

• Set engineering standards across multiple delivery teams.
• Influence technology strategy and future of critical digital services.
• Mentor engineers and guide senior stakeholders through complex challenges.

Skills

Cloud platforms

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Solution architecture

Security & compliance

SDLC optimization

Tools

Git

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Tech Lead Pay up to £92,522 plus
28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We're looking for an outstanding Tech Lead, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.

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 £280bn 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?

Significant experience of the full life cycle of a cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and patching (AWS). Significant experience of version control systems as well as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines e.g. git with GitLab CI or Jenkins.

Significant experience of Infrastructure-as-code and configuration of code for one or more cloud providers.

Significant experience of collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.

Significant experience of ensuring adherence to industry standards for data security, disaster recovery and compliance.

Significant experience of creating engineering tooling and solutions to optimise and align the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of our engineering teams.

You and your role As a Senior Tech Lead, you'll work across multiple delivery teams, setting engineering standards, influencing technology strategy and helping shape the future of critical digital services.

You'll combine hands-on technical expertise with leadership, guiding engineers through complex challenges across cloud, on-premises and third-party platforms.

From reviewing solution designs and driving technical improvements to mentoring engineers and advising senior stakeholders, you'll play a key role in turning ideas into robust, scalable services.

Details.

Wages.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, 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 £92,522. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth
28.97%, worth over £21,000 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 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 2024 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 Tech Employer Awards

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