Lead Technical Architect


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£75,026 to £96,683 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	FY4 5ES
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	1 Sept 2026
Closing date:	15 Sept 2026

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Summary

Do you want work collaboratively designing modern IT architecture for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe?

Do you want to help support millions of our claimants by designing user-friendly digital services?

If so, this roles may be perfect for you!

We are looking for experienced Lead Technical Architects with a specialism in Application design and Artificial Intelligence (AI), who are confident working on products and services in a complex digital environment, where you’ll be supporting major initiatives within the AI & Innovation team.

You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to support the delivery of solutions, creating options and recommendations, and providing expert advice to drive technology choices.

The roles will include the design, oversight and architecture governance of IT solutions that support DWP customers.

The DWP’s Corporate Innovation Unit (CIU) is leading the way on the ambitious task of implementing AI and Continuous Improvement (CI) to support and help colleagues in the corporate centre to be more creative and efficient by optimising and improving internal business processes. By leveraging Microsoft Office 365 AI solutions, repetitive work will be made easier, freeing up colleagues to focus on higher value and more complex and interesting tasks. There is also a focus on developing agentic solutions using Microsoft Agent Builder and Microsoft Copilot Studio, with the ultimate aim of having a library of agentic solutions that can be plugged together to perform complex end-to-end business processes. If proved to be necessary bespoke, secure and controlled AI solutions may well be developed on commodity cloud AI managed services infrastructure, possibly leveraging Anthropic Claude Cowork.

This is an exciting time to join us. You’ll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional products and services that work for everyone.

A Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) 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.

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