Senior Technical Lead
| Posting date: | 14 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £72,664 to £89,995 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 January 2025 |
| Location: | M2 3LR |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 381979/3 |
Summary
Would you love the opportunity to promote technical evolution within the organisation across multiple teams?
If so, come join us as a Senior Technical Lead!
Within DWP’s Working Age Services Digital we are responsible for a number of existing services which support the core of society including the department’s highest profile benefit service, Universal Credit.
As part of the Universal Credit programme, we continue to seek ways to transform how we deliver for the citizen with its circa 6 million citizens. As part of this we have several key platform capabilities which we are looking to evolve to support the wider departmental ambitions. All of which have large data persistence footprints and need a high level of load testing assurance. This role will be vital in supporting all these aims and more.
We’re looking for an outstanding Senior Technical Lead, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are changing the face of public services, with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
We need a driven and passionate Senior Technical Lead who would like to be part of teams delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
The candidate will act as a leader across the Working Age Services space, with line management responsibility of Senior Engineers. You will support increasing capability, standards and practices across the organisation.
As a seasoned Senior Technical Lead, you will spearhead the data persistence strategy for Universal Credit, New Style JSA/ESA (Job Seeker’s Allowance/Employment Support Allowance) plus various other smaller systems. The role will focus on architecting and implementing scalable data lifecycle management processes, including backups and retention policies, while ensuring system resilience and security. Alongside the overall messaging stack to support event management outcomes.
Additionally, you will lead performance testing initiatives to ensure workload stability, guaranteeing seamless service operations. Your expertise in data management, backup/recovery strategies, and performance engineering will drive key decisions in shaping our data capability that underpins these critical systems.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
As Senior Technical Lead, as well as being a hands-on engineer, you will:
- Work across multiple teams as an engineering specialist defining and refining engineering standards and setting direction in line with overarching strategy (which you will influence).
- Push a mindset change within the organisation to foster engineering ownership of infrastructure development including software engineering activities.
- Define and implement the data persistence and event strategy for Working Age Services, including Universal Credit.
- Create capability, through definition of training opportunities, pastoral care, and Practice alignment.
- Be responsible for recruitment, mentoring and support of engineers and trainee engineers alongside other Lead engineer community members.
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