Senior Technical Architect (Solutions)
| Posting date: | 08 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,557 to £83,917 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 August 2025 |
| Location: | City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2 3LR |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | DWP Digital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 419381_1754646244 |
Summary
Senior Technical Architect (Solutions)
Pay of up to £83,917, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We are looking for experienced Senior Technical Architects who are confident working on products and services in a complex digital environment.
Our teams use 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 £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, the architectural problems we have to solve are rich and complex, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- Architecture design across on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration aspects.
- Architecture design informed through use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
- Architecture design working with project delivery teams within agile, waterfall and hybrid environments throughout the lifecycle - from concept to go-live.
- Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
- Architecture design through use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent.
- Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice.
- Event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards, across multiple domains in private data-centres and public clouds.
You and your role
We're looking for skilled architects who are confident working on products & services in a complex digital environment. These are roles where you need to be a skilled technical expert, as well as a good communicator and leader.
As a Senior Technical Architect, you will design, implement and oversee the architecture of IT solutions that improve services for millions of DWP users.
You'll work the design, oversight and architecture governance of IT solutions that support DWP customers and help our colleagues be at the most effective.
You will will work collaboratively with engineers and other experts in multi-disciplinary teams, to create efficient solution designs that meet user needs.
You'll ensure technical quality and make sure product designs to DWP's Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps.
Details. Wages. Perks.
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 sometime collaborating face to face in a hub.
Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £83,917, comprised of salary and Government Digital & Data allowance.
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,094 per year.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days and 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
- Sports and social activities
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is 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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