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Senior Technical Lead
Department for Work and Pensions —Birmingham
- £75,026 - £92,522 a year
- Overtime
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- DevOps
- AWS
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
7d
Head of Systems Improvement
Automoney Trust Limited —Redditch
- £50,000 - £70,000 a year
- Full-time
- Management
- Maths
- Project management
- Life insurance
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Senior Business Development Manager
The Manufacturing Technology Centre —Coventry
- £75,000 - £85,000 a year
- Full-time
- CRM software
- Sales
- Engineering
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Lead Technical Assurance Manager
High Speed Two (HS2) —Birmingham
- £61,622 - £83,191 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Office
- Project management
- Contracts
12d
Information Security & IT Manager
NetWatch Global —Birmingham
- £48,000 - £58,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- IT
- Flexitime
- Flexible schedule
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InfoWorks ICM Flood Modeller
JBA Consulting —Coleshill
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Data analysis skills
- Bachelor's degree
- Communication skills
- Work from home
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7d
Technical Lead
Serco Group —Solihull
- £65,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Access
- Azure
- Mentoring
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Chief Technology Officer
Health and Safety Executive —Birmingham
- £86,000 - £117,800 a year
- Full-time
- Presentation skills
- Travel
- Contracts
Facilities and Office Manager
Midland Building Products —West Bromwich
- Full-time
- Maintenance
- Windows
- Microsoft Office
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
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11d
Senior Associate / Lead - Large Loss
Keoghs —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Employee discount
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Head of Sales - Distribution
Project Better Energy —Burton-On-Trent
- £70,000 - £90,000 a year
- Full-time
- CRM software
- Sales
- In-person
- Employee assistance programme
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6d
Key Account Manager & Projects Lead
Goodfish Group —Cannock
- £45,000 - £50,000 a year
- Full-time
- Project management
- Presentation skills
- Driving
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Head of New Business
BDO —Birmingham
- Full-time
- Sales
- SQL
- Contracts
National Contract Manager
Atlas Workplace Services —Birmingham
- Up to £50,000 a year
- Travel
- Contracts
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Compliance & HR Manager
Servicom (High Tech) Ltd —Redditch
- £35,000 - £38,000 a year
- Full-time
- Travel
- Human resources
- In-person
- Free parking
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14d
Programme Delivery Lead
Riviera Travel —Burton-On-Trent
- £590 - £680 a day
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- PMP
- ERP systems
- Agile
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11d
ER Manager
Helping Hands —Alcester
- Up to £65,000 a year
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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Senior Technical Lead
HCLTech —Coventry
- AWS
- APIs
5d
Financial Controller
Cameo —Barwell
- £45,000 - £65,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Oracle
- ERP systems
Quick apply
10d
Senior Systems Accountant
Nacro —Birmingham
- £60,629 - £62,448 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Continuous improvement
11d

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Senior Technical Lead

Department for Work and Pensions -
Birmingham

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Job details

Permanent | Part-time | Full-time
£75,026 - £92,522 a year
7 days ago

Benefits

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

Qualifications

Azure
DevOps
AWS
Presentation skills
Terraform
Agile
Leadership

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Details

Reference number

470319

Salary

£75,026 - £92,522

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

Digital
Information Technology

Working pattern

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

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
Benefits
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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

Join DWP Digital as a Senior Technical Lead within Corporate Centre Services, where you will support our corporate colleagues to solve real business problems and enhance user experiences across critical internal services.

This role sits at the heart of DWPs digital transformation, ensuring that technology and platforms align to wider strategic business aims while enabling efficient, user-centred services across areas such as HR, finance, commercial and estates.

Were especially interested in individuals with a proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders, navigating organisational complexity, and driving improvements that support service transformation. Experience of enhancing how digital content and platforms are used across corporate services will be highly valuable.

You will lead the evolution in shaping how platforms, content, and engineering practices evolve to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality services for colleagues across the organisation.

If this sounds like you, apply today!

Job description

As a Senior Technical Lead within Corporate Centre Services, you will collaborate with Product and Delivery leadership to define and drive the technical direction of multi-disciplinary teams delivering enterprise-scale services.

You will operate at the heart of a complex organisational landscape, influencing senior leaders, aligning to strategic architecture, and driving improvements that support service transformation across corporate and analytical platforms.

Key responsibilities include:

Leading the technical strategy for cloud-based platforms, ensuring alignment with DWPs Strategic Reference Architecture and Departmental Data Strategy.
Influencing and advising senior stakeholders on technical direction, investment priorities, and service improvements.
Driving adoption of DevOps best practices across teams, enabling continuous delivery and operational excellence at scale.
Supporting teams to design, build and operate secure, resilient services in highly regulated environments.
Championing improvements in observability, monitoring, and live service support to ensure high availability and performance.
Enabling the use of infrastructure as code and automation to improve consistency, scalability and delivery speed.
Building capability across engineering teams through mentoring, coaching, and technical leadership.
Working across corporate services and product teams to improve how platforms and supporting content enable colleagues to complete tasks effectively.
Collaborating with security, infrastructure and operations teams to ensure services meet compliance, resilience and governance requirements.
Managing technical roadmaps and ensuring delivery aligns with organisational priorities and user needs.

Person specification

See selection process for further details.

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

Technical skills

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

Technical Breadth

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

Pay for this role is from £75,026 to £92,522.

The maximum salary for the grade is £80,267 however a Digital Allowance of up to £12,255 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

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

See selection process for further details Civil Servants who gain promotion will move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase applied to their current substantive salary, whichever is greater.

Any temporary allowances that you are currently in receipt of will not form part of the calculation to determine your pay. Any allowances that are in payment will cease when you move into your new role.

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 Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application

Your application will consist of four 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.

3. Personal statement - up to 1000 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:

Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate complex organisations to drive technical, service, and strategic improvements.
Strong DevOps expertise, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform), automation, and improving observability and live service support.
Experience providing technical leadership for the design and delivery of technology solutions, ensuring alignment with architecture standards, security requirements, governance processes, and organisational objectives.
Experience of leading and supporting Engineers in multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment and sharing knowledge and good practice with the wider organisation.
Experience delivering technology change on enterprise platforms that improves user experience, service quality, and business outcomes.

4. Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of "Technical breadth". This statement should be used to provide example(s) of how you meet the criterion below:

Significant experience designing and delivering secure, cloud-based solutions (AWS and/or Azure) in large-scale enterprise or government environments.

Ensure that all examples provided in your statements 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 statements, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide.

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

An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.

If you do progress to a full sift, you will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your employment history and Personal Statement.

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 or technical statement contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn.

Stage 2: Interview

If youre successful at the sift stage, youll be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. During the interview, youll be assessed against the experience criteria listed under both the essential criteria and technical skill.

You will be asked to do a 10 minute presentation on a specific topic. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview.

Interviews will take place from the end of August 2026. Interview dates to be confirmed.

Other information:

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.

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.

Further information

Find out more about Working for DWP

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

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

Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.

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.

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

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

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 .

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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 : Richard Hanley
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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