Senior Digital Project Manager
| Posting date: | 06 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £57,946 to £68,205 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 November 2025 |
| Location: | B1 2AX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 435114/1 |
Summary
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment continually looking to evolve?
If this sounds like you, this may be the perfect opportunity for you!
We’re looking for driven and passionate Senior Digital Project Managers who can lead the delivery of multiple digital projects which have significant business impact.
Our Digital Project Managers use a range of skills and methodologies, managing multi-functional delivery teams to deliver change, maintain our core applications and deliver new services that support the lives of millions of people.
We have many exciting opportunities for you to join us at DWP Digital, you will join a flourishing, supportive delivery community delivering some of the largest digital transformations in Europe.
You'll be an experienced Senior Digital Project Manager, who will lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale complex digital change.
For our vacancy in Newcastle, you will be working on building robotics and automations to improve existing DWP processes. Ideally, you’ll have experience working on automation projects, leading development teams in activities that involve implementing robotics and AI technologies.
For the vacancy in Birmingham, you will lead strategic projects to enhance DWP’s Data Engineering capability. You’ll drive improvements in recruitment, standards, community development, and data curation across Digital and Analytics.
Experience managing digital projects and working with Data Engineering teams is strongly preferred.
For the vacancies in Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle, you will be working on Projects related to Microsoft 365 Products and Services. For all posts:
- You'll lead the team to ensure project controls are in place, managing plans, risks, issues and dependencies to effective resolution.
- You’ll lead the team in ensuring you manage appropriate governance and reporting to Digital Directors, communicating and taking ownership of resolving complex issues while influencing decisions that require board level approval.
- You’ll manage a varied stakeholder environment, setting the pace for delivery and working with internal teams and/or external suppliers to deliver successfully.
- You’ll manage team dynamics, coaching teams to improve flow, quality and ownership throughout the team. Dealing with conflict and help establish a positive team culture.
- You’ll take responsibility for your own learning and development, especially in project management practice, digital frameworks and technologies in an increasingly agile environment, alongside coaching and mentoring your team and the wider delivery community to establish standards for processes and tools.
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