Senior Digital Project Manager
| Posting date: | 06 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £57,946 to £68,205 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 January 2026 |
| Location: | S3 7UF |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 441723/6 |
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 to lead the delivery of multiple digital projects with significant business impact.
Our Project Managers use a range of skills and methodologies, managing multi-functional teams to deliver change, maintain core applications, and create new services that support millions of people.
Join us at DWP Digital, where you’ll be part of a thriving, supportive delivery community driving one of Europe’s largest digital transformations.
Core Digital Service – Benefit Payment Services
This team maintains DWP’s Core (legacy) Services, paying £150 billion to over 15 million citizens annually. You’ll lead technical delivery across complex digital environments, managing cross-cutting projects and infrastructure/software upgrades. Working closely with our security manager, you’ll plan and coordinate patches and upgrades to keep applications secure.
Hybrid Cloud Services
Join Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) and help deliver one of Europe’s biggest digital transformations, implementing cutting-edge technologies with users at the heart. As part of the HCS Database Platforms team, you’ll lead end-to-end delivery of multiple projects at pace, working with Engineers to ensure success. You’ll manage risks, issues, and dependencies, reporting progress to the HCS Programme Board. Our team supports critical services impacting millions, driving the shift from on-premise to cloud with automation at the core for innovation and efficiency.
Low Code Team
An exciting opportunity exists within the Digital and Transformation Group’s Low Code Team. You’ll deliver low-code solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, modernising services from scratch or remediating legacy applications. This transformation replaces unsupported VBA tools with secure, scalable PowerApps aligned to DWP’s Digital Strategy. With hundreds of applications relied upon by tens of thousands of users, you’ll drive user-focused innovation and ensure successful end-to-end delivery in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment.
You’ll be an experienced Senior Digital Project Manager, who will lead the end-to-end delivery of large scale complex digital change.
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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