Senior Tech Lead


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£75,026 to £92,522 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	FY4 5ES
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Oct 2026
Closing date:	25 Oct 2026

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Summary

Are you an experienced Technical Leader with a passion for automation excellence?

Would you love the opportunity to promote technical evolution within the organisation across multiple teams? If so, come join us as a Senior Tech Lead.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) core strategy is one of “Full Transformation”, however many of the Business Products that are tenants of at-risk Legacy IT Systems are old policy and/or closed benefit lines.  Where a Business Product is not a suitable candidate for Full Transformation, we have defined a range of additional treatment options that we can use to mitigate the risks of Technical Debt across our core IT Systems, protecting our ability to pay Citizens.

The Legacy Tech Debt (LTD) workstream has been established to oversee the work needed to address our Technical Debt.

As a Senior Tech Lead, you will work at a strategic level and will drive application development and the coordination of technical teams to create and maintain the LTD replacement products and services for DWP. You will utilise your technical expertise in multiple domains to support multiple delivery teams in the development of technical product roadmaps and the management of product lifecycles, ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy.

You will provide technical input into discussions to direct the wider LTD delivery teams as required, based on your deep technical experience in areas such as package implementation, package configuration, customisation and integration, and solution architecture.

We’re looking for an outstanding, driven and passionate Senior Tech Lead, who wants to significantly contribute to development of critical digital services for the UK Government. The products we build are changing the face of public services, with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

If this sounds like you, apply today!

As Senior Tech Lead, you will:

Work across multiple LTD delivery teams as an engineering specialist defining and refining engineering standards.
Provide technical input into strategic discussions to direct the wider LTD delivery teams as required, based on your deep experience in areas such as package implementation, package configuration, customisation and integration, solution architecture and experience of utilising externally hosted services.
Co-ordinate and mentor technical teams to create and maintain products and services for DWP and deliver against roadmaps and plans.
Manage and oversee product life-cycles ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy and non-functional requirements.
Support work on critical LTD digital services, working across public cloud, On Premise hosting environments and externally hosted services.
Lead and oversee governance and assurance submissions on technical designs for LTD packaged solutions and engage with key stakeholders to secure input and support for subsequent approvals.
Gather a range of information from different sources and stakeholders to ensure effective decision making, clearly demonstrating a balanced approach to conclusions and recommendations. Especially by advising senior DWP stakeholders on the development of DWP technical strategy including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
Review existing services and trends in industry to identify areas of improvements and formulate plans to deliver enhancements to enable the development, configuration and management of a quality service.
Be responsible for mentoring and support of engineers and trainee engineers.

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