Senior Technical Lead - Payments and Accounting
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £72,664 to £89,995 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2025 |
| Location: | Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 5ES |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | DWP Digital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 412504_1750849630 |
Summary
Senior Technical Lead- Payments and Accounting
Pay up to £89,995 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We're transforming how we use tech in banking to make sure DWP payments are fast, accurate, and reliable. Join us as a Senior Technical Lead and help shape the future by leading teams, building smart solutions and driving innovation that makes a real difference.
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 £265bn 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?
- Lead criteria - Extensive experience in a range of package implementations in a large-scale organisation, clearly demonstrating depth and understanding of complex requirements and how the packaged solution is designed, configured and tested to meet those requirements.
- Proven track record in gathering a range of information from different sources and stakeholders to ensure effective decision making, clearly demonstrating a balanced approach to conclusions and recommendations.
- Strong working knowledge and experience in reviewing existing services and external industry trends to identify areas of improvement and formulating plans to deliver enhancements to enable the management of a quality service.
- Detailed working knowledge and a deep understanding of the design, implementation and operation of shared service payment and accounting solutions based on packaged solutions.
- Significant experience and a deep understanding of large-scale payment journeys, payment processing, related accounting processes and use of packaged solutions to deliver payment, accounting and reconciliation functionality.
You and your role
We're looking for a Senior Technical Lead to help shape and deliver key digital services at DWP.
You'll lead technical teams, guide product development, and make sure everything aligns with our wider strategy.
Using your deep experience in payments, accounting, and financial systems, especially around package implementation and integration, you'll play a big role in shaping our tech direction.
You will work across cloud and on-prem environments, support critical digital services and advise senior stakeholders on the best way forward. If you're passionate about using tech to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle, 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 £89,995.
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:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- 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.
Process:
We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:
Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
Interview: a single stage interview online.
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
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