Senior Technical Lead
| Posting date: | 03 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £75,026 to £92,522 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 February 2026 |
| Location: | NE98 1YX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 444157/4 |
Summary
Join DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) Analytics and help shape the data platforms that power some of the UK’s most important public services.
Our team builds the advanced analytics capability that drives accurate benefit payments and supports the Department’s mission to reduce fraud, error and debt. You’ll help create the systems that bring data together, enable data scientists to develop powerful analytical models and deploy these models into real world digital and case management services used every day by citizens and colleagues. This is a chance to work at the heart of a modern, ambitious data organisation and make a meaningful impact on millions of people.
If this sounds like you, apply today!
As the Senior Technical Lead for the DWP Analytics team, you will work alongside a Lead Product Manager and Lead Agile Delivery Manager to jointly define and direct the work of multi-disciplinary teams providing current and future Analytics capabilities across DWP.
As the Senior Technical Lead within Data & Analytics Architecture and Engineering, you will work alongside other Technical Roles to provide support, advice, guidance and oversight of all solutions across Data & Analytics.
You will need to consider how the DWP Analytics capability can be developed to align and interact with the overall Strategic Reference Architecture in Digital, as well as the Departmental Data Strategy, supporting analytics delivery across the evolving hub and spoke operating model.
You will be a key member of the technical leadership community across the Data & Analytics directorate.
You will be:
- Responsible for the management of technical team members, guiding and mentoring them, including the achievement of defined objectives and their performance management.
- Responsible for providing technical expert domain knowledge and advice to project teams when dealing with complex issues.
- Responsible for providing leadership on architectural roadmaps to support advanced analytics for DWP, including of fraud detection strategies and fraud mitigation approaches to the department.
- Advising senior stakeholders including Digital and wider leadership on development priorities including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
- Maintain relationships both internally and externally, reconciling on priorities and agreeing on approach, tooling or strategy improvements.
- Advise on problems arising from specific work programmes or from implementation of proposed changes in Departmental policy and make recommendations.
- Managing performance against the technical roadmap for DWP Analytics.
- Ensure product development alignment with and assists in delivery of wider DWP technical strategy, including Strategic Reference Architecture and Departmental Data Strategy.
- Work with production, security and infrastructure teams to ensure highly resilient, secure and available technical capability.
- Work closely with delivery team to ensure alignment to DWP standards and best practice for all product development and support.
Please note: As part of the role, you will be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs, especially Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.
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