Senior Technical Lead
Pay up to £89,995 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We're looking for an outstanding Senior Technical Lead, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.
Within DWP's Working Age Services Digital we are responsible for a number of existing services which support the core of society including the department's highest profile benefit service, Universal Credit.
We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- Lead criterion: Significant experience of leading engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance, and coaching and mentoring to support team member development opportunities including in a complex, multidisciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple stakeholders, for example to optimize data storage, retrieval, and query efficiency.
- Significant experience of the full life cycle of a cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and patching (in particular AWS).
- Significant experience of version control systems as well as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines e.g. git with GitLab CI or Jenkins.
- Significant experience of Infrastructure-as-code and configuration of code for one or more cloud providers.
- Significant experience of ensuring adherence to industry standards for data security, disaster recovery, and compliance.
- Significant experience of leading data lifecycle management (both at rest and as events), including automated backup processes, archival, and retention, using modern database technologies and cloud-based data storage solutions.
- Significant experience of measuring system performance through automation load testing and recommending enhancements.
You and your role
As a seasoned Senior Technical Lead, you will spearhead the data persistence strategy for Universal Credit, New Style JSA/ESA (Job Seeker's Allowance/Employment Support Allowance) plus various other smaller systems. The role will focus on architecting and implementing scalable data lifecycle management processes, including backups and retention policies, while ensuring system resilience and security. Alongside the overall messaging stack to support event management outcomes.
Additionally, you will lead performance testing initiatives to ensure workload stability, guaranteeing seamless service operations. Your expertise in data management, backup/recovery strategies, and performance engineering will drive key decisions in shaping our data capability that underpins these critical systems.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.
Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £89,995.
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £21,000 per year.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:
Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
Interview: a single stage interview online.
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
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