Lead technical architect Work, Jobs in Tile Hill, War (with Salaries)

Lead Technical Architect
Department for Work and Pensions —Birmingham
- £75,026 - £99,836 a year
- Overtime
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Leadership
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
IT Field Engineer
BCA —Birmingham
- Monday to Friday
- Travel
- Computer networking
- IT
- Employee assistance programme
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Solution Architect
M Group —Warwick
- Part-time
- Negotiation
- Employee discount
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Lead IT Technical Architect
High Speed Two (HS2) —Birmingham
- £54,878 - £64,562 a year
- Full-time
- IT
- Leadership
Cloud Architect
C SYSTEM SERVICES LIMITED —Birmingham
- £6,400 - £6,500 a month
- Full-time
- Azure
- Computer Science
- DevOps
- Free parking
- Work from home
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BIRMINGHAM – Junior to Lead Business Process, Automation & Change Roles for 2026
Vantage Point —Birmingham
- Hybrid work
- SQL
- Analysis skills
- SharePoint
IT Group Platform and DevOps Lead
Bravissimo —Warwick
- £60,000 - £70,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- SQL
- AWS
- Free parking
- Employee discount
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Business Systems Data Lead
System C —Leamington Spa
- Full-time
- IT
- Communication skills
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Data Centre Architectural Technical Director
Springtide Project Services —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Administrative experience
- Business development
- No degree
Lead Analyst - Data
Homes England —Birmingham
- £59,631 - £69,548 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Data analysis skills
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
5d
Data Architect
Halfords —Redditch
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Salesforce
- Leadership
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
RIBA Part I Architectural Assistant
Glancy Nicholls —Birmingham
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
8d
Architect - WSP Architecture
WSP —Birmingham
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- AutoCAD
- Management
- Construction
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Functional Safety Architect / Safety Engineer (FuSa) – PT VSC
Expleo —Gaydon
- Engineering
- Analysis skills
- No degree
Head of Cloud Architecture
Pinewood.AI —Solihull
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- SQL
- Bachelor's degree
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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Application Development Solution Architect
SCC —Birmingham
- £75,000 - £100,000 a year
- Monday to Friday
- Hybrid work
- DevOps
- APIs
- Communication skills
Project Architect or Senior Architect
AtkinsRéalis —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- AutoCAD
- Time management
Business Architect - Oldbury
DPD Group UK —Oldbury
- £100,000 a year
- Full-time
- AI
- Leadership
- Free parking
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Revit/BIM Facade Designer
Alumet Ltd —Southam
- £45,000 - £55,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- AutoCAD
- Schematics
- Windows
- Sick pay
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7d
Technical Design Lead- Data Centres
AECOM —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Project management
- Presentation skills

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Lead Technical Architect

Department for Work and Pensions -
Birmingham

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Job details

Permanent | Part-time | Full-time
£75,026 - £99,836 a year

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme
Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount
Pay rise

Qualifications

Cloud architecture
Presentation skills
Talend
Apache
Informatica
Leadership
Communication skills

Full job description

Details

Reference number

462716

Salary

£75,026 - £99,836

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 6

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DWP - Digital

Type of role

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
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Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.

About the job

Job summary

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

Do you want to shape architecture decisions at a national scale, influencing services used by millions of people every day?

Are you looking to lead complex digital transformation and drive real architectural change?

Do you want to lead at the intersection of innovation, governance and delivery, shaping architecture across complex digital services?

If so, these roles may be perfect for you!

We are looking for experienced Lead Technical Architects, who are confident working on products and services in a complex digital environment, where youll be supporting major initiatives within our Data & Analytics function.

This is an inherently complex area, combining sensitive data handling at scale, cloud security and live service integration which is currently undertaking significant modernisation including transition to Cloud Native solutions.

One role sits within the D&A Architecture and Engineering Team providing guidance and assurance across the Data & Analytics landscape working alongside other Technical Leads to ensure delivery of End to End Technical Solutions which are aligned to Digital Standards and patterns embedding Security by Design and Data by Design.

The other role sits within the Data Enablement Layer of the Data & Analytics Organisation leading the Solution Architecture collaborating with other Technical Roles to ensure Data Products are well designed, built and delivered to DWP Design and Engineering Standards and meet User needs.

Job description

A Lead Technical Architect leads at the highest level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed.

At this role level, you will:

Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations.
Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation.
Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation.
Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high risk issues or delivering architecture design.

Person specification

When completing your employment history and personal statement, you should clearly demonstrate extensive practical experience, a deep understanding, and the ability to lead or mentor others in line with the essential criteria below:

Data Integration: Knowledge of integrating data from disparate sources, real-time data pipelines, and batch processing.
ETL/ELT Processes: Experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tools and processes (e.g., Informatica, Talend, Apache NiFi) or ELT tools in modern data platforms. Expertise in data extraction from various sources, data transformation, and loading into the target systems
Analytics & Reporting: Data warehousing, Data Lakes, business intelligence (BI) and analytics technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice.
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.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact [email protected]

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and Influencing
Leadership
Working Together

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Architecture communication (Expert)
Architect for the whole context (Practitioner)
Community collaboration (Practitioner)
Making architectural decisions (Expert)
Strategy design (Practitioner)
Technical design throughout the life cycle (Expert)

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,026, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £21,735 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
Generous annual leave at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service.
Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

Hybrid Working

This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.

If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.

If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.

Salary Information

The role is part of the Government Digital and Data profession and utilises an enhanced Government Digital and Data Pay Framework linked to capability which provides access to a Government Digital and Data allowance.

Pay for this role is £75,026 to £80,267, subject to candidate type. In addition to this, the role can attract a Government Digital and Data allowance of up to £24,810. Please see additional info below regarding candidate type. The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills as demonstrated in the selection process. Government Digital and Data Allowance is a discretionary non-consolidated, non-pensionable allowance.

External applicants

Pay for this role is £75,026 plus a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £24,810, subject to our assessment of capability at interview.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on our assessment of your capability based on the evidence you provide at interview against the listed Technical Skills for the role. There is no negotiation at offer stage.

Internal and OGD applicants

Pay for the role is from £75,026 to £80,267, you may also be eligible for a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £24,810, subject to our assessment of capability at interview.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current base salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion should either move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase to their base salary; whichever would be the greater.

In addition to your base salary a Government Digital and Data Allowance may be payable based on our assessment of your capability. Our offer to successful candidates will be based on the evidence you provide at interview against the listed Technical Skills for the role. There is no negotiation at offer stage.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application

Your application will consist of three parts:

1. A Personal Details application form.

2. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed based on the essential criteria.

3. Personal statement - up to 1250 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person specification.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Ensure that all examples provided in your statement are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. If you choose to use gen-AI to support your statement, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide.

The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria.

You will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your CV and Personal Statement.

For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.

Important Information

You will be asked to complete your employment history. Any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.

Stage 2: Interview 1

If youre successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams.

You will be asked to do a 10-minute presentation to further assess your experience and to assess the technical skill of skill "Architecture Communication (Expert)". Your presentation should focus on the following:

Present an example of a cloud-hosted data analytics architecture design that youve defined and delivered, explaining how you translated business requirements into technical solutions, particularly in relation to data integration and ETL/ELT processes, including your key architectural decisions, applied standards, patterns and modelling techniques, and how you worked with delivery teams throughout the full lifecycle.

Stage 3: Interview 2

If you are successful at Stage 2 you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours and Technical Skills:

Behaviours:

Communicating and Influencing
Leadership
Working Together

Technical Skills:

Architect for the whole Context (Practitioner)
Community Collaboration (Practitioner)
Making Architectural Decisions (Expert)
Strategy Design (Practitioner)
Technical Design throughout the life cycle (Expert)

Interviews will take place from late July 2026. Interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Find out more about Working for DWP

If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.

For these vacancies, we strongly recommend that applicants consult with an immigration specialist or qualified advisor to assess their eligibility for Visa Sponsorship before deciding to apply. Please note that while we consider sponsorship requests in accordance with current DWP guidance and Home Office policy, sponsorship cannot be guaranteed.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.

Security Clearance Requirement

You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

You must have resided continuously in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years, 2 of which must have been the immediately preceding years from the point of applying for this job.

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the Reasonable Adjustments section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.

For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Mark Harbottle
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you wish to make a complaint, please find further details here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/how-we-recruit/.

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