Lead Software Engineer (ServiceNow)
DWP Digital - City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester
£75,026 to £92,522 a year
PermanentFull time
Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (ServiceNow) Pay up to £75,026 - £92,522 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a proven engineering leader? We need a Lead Software Engineer to mentor high-performing teams, deliver high-quality digital services, and shape large-scale ServiceNow solutions. Join DWP Digital and lead a team supporting one of the largest ServiceNow implementations in Europe. You'll play a pivotal role in driving engineering excellence, mentoring engineers and delivering innovative solutions that support around 120,000 colleagues across the organisation. As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across multiple ServiceNow modules, ensuring development standards, quality, security and best practices are embedded in everything we deliver. You'll act as a trusted technical advisor, helping teams solve complex challenges while influencing the future direction of the platform. This is an opportunity to work on large-scale, business-critical services where your decisions will have a real impact. You'll collaborate with architects, product teams and senior stakeholders to deliver modern, user-centred technology solutions that support DWP's mission. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, driving continuous improvement, and inspiring others to achieve their best. If you're passionate about technology, leadership and creating services that make a difference, we'd love to hear from you. Please note: Holding a ServiceNow Certified System Administrator qualification is an essential requirement for this role. Evidence of certification will be required at interview. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience delivering and leading ServiceNow solutions across multiple modules and applications, including ITSM, ITOM, SPM, Security Operations, HRSD, Service Portals, Workspaces, CMDB and integrations. Expert knowledge of cyber security and IT operations controls, with the ability to design secure, resilient and scalable solutions that embed security by design, automation and AI-driven operations. Significant experience implementing and optimising ServiceNow Security Operations and/or IT Operations Management capabilities within complex enterprise environments. Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to lead investigations into complex business and technical challenges, analyse conflicting information and drive evidence-based recommendations for improvement. Proven track record of designing, implementing, administering and supporting security products and services across cloud and on-premise environments, ensuring compliance with security standards and architectural principles. Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and champion engineering best practice, driving continuous improvement and high-quality service delivery at scale. You and your role As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be a recognised technical expert and trusted leader, shaping how we design, build and support high-quality software solutions. You'll set engineering standards, drive best practice across teams, and champion quality, consistency and continuous improvement. By promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing and the reuse of proven solutions, you'll help teams solve complex challenges and deliver scalable, maintainable services that meet user needs. As part of the leadership team, you'll influence engineering strategy, guide teams through change, and build capability across the wider engineering community. You'll balance competing priorities, make informed decisions in complex environments, and remove barriers to delivery. While you'll remain hands-on when needed, your primary focus will be leading, mentoring and empowering multiple engineering teams, creating an environment where engineers can thrive, innovate and deliver outstanding digital services at scale. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield 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: 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 subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £21,735 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: 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. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
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Lead Software Engineer (ServiceNow)
DWP Digital - Sheffield, South Yorkshire
£75,026 to £92,522 a year
PermanentFull time
Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (ServiceNow) Pay up to £75,026 - £92,522 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a proven engineering leader? We need a Lead Software Engineer to mentor high-performing teams, deliver high-quality digital services, and shape large-scale ServiceNow solutions. Join DWP Digital and lead a team supporting one of the largest ServiceNow implementations in Europe. You'll play a pivotal role in driving engineering excellence, mentoring engineers and delivering innovative solutions that support around 120,000 colleagues across the organisation. As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across multiple ServiceNow modules, ensuring development standards, quality, security and best practices are embedded in everything we deliver. You'll act as a trusted technical advisor, helping teams solve complex challenges while influencing the future direction of the platform. This is an opportunity to work on large-scale, business-critical services where your decisions will have a real impact. You'll collaborate with architects, product teams and senior stakeholders to deliver modern, user-centred technology solutions that support DWP's mission. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, driving continuous improvement, and inspiring others to achieve their best. If you're passionate about technology, leadership and creating services that make a difference, we'd love to hear from you. Please note: Holding a ServiceNow Certified System Administrator qualification is an essential requirement for this role. Evidence of certification will be required at interview. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience delivering and leading ServiceNow solutions across multiple modules and applications, including ITSM, ITOM, SPM, Security Operations, HRSD, Service Portals, Workspaces, CMDB and integrations. Expert knowledge of cyber security and IT operations controls, with the ability to design secure, resilient and scalable solutions that embed security by design, automation and AI-driven operations. Significant experience implementing and optimising ServiceNow Security Operations and/or IT Operations Management capabilities within complex enterprise environments. Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to lead investigations into complex business and technical challenges, analyse conflicting information and drive evidence-based recommendations for improvement. Proven track record of designing, implementing, administering and supporting security products and services across cloud and on-premise environments, ensuring compliance with security standards and architectural principles. Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and champion engineering best practice, driving continuous improvement and high-quality service delivery at scale. You and your role As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be a recognised technical expert and trusted leader, shaping how we design, build and support high-quality software solutions. You'll set engineering standards, drive best practice across teams, and champion quality, consistency and continuous improvement. By promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing and the reuse of proven solutions, you'll help teams solve complex challenges and deliver scalable, maintainable services that meet user needs. As part of the leadership team, you'll influence engineering strategy, guide teams through change, and build capability across the wider engineering community. You'll balance competing priorities, make informed decisions in complex environments, and remove barriers to delivery. While you'll remain hands-on when needed, your primary focus will be leading, mentoring and empowering multiple engineering teams, creating an environment where engineers can thrive, innovate and deliver outstanding digital services at scale. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield 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: 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 subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £21,735 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: 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. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
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Lead Software Engineer (ServiceNow)
DWP Digital - Blackpool, Lancashire
£75,026 to £92,522 a year
PermanentFull time
Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (ServiceNow) Pay up to £75,026 - £92,522 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a proven engineering leader? We need a Lead Software Engineer to mentor high-performing teams, deliver high-quality digital services, and shape large-scale ServiceNow solutions. Join DWP Digital and lead a team supporting one of the largest ServiceNow implementations in Europe. You'll play a pivotal role in driving engineering excellence, mentoring engineers and delivering innovative solutions that support around 120,000 colleagues across the organisation. As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across multiple ServiceNow modules, ensuring development standards, quality, security and best practices are embedded in everything we deliver. You'll act as a trusted technical advisor, helping teams solve complex challenges while influencing the future direction of the platform. This is an opportunity to work on large-scale, business-critical services where your decisions will have a real impact. You'll collaborate with architects, product teams and senior stakeholders to deliver modern, user-centred technology solutions that support DWP's mission. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, driving continuous improvement, and inspiring others to achieve their best. If you're passionate about technology, leadership and creating services that make a difference, we'd love to hear from you. Please note: Holding a ServiceNow Certified System Administrator qualification is an essential requirement for this role. Evidence of certification will be required at interview. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience delivering and leading ServiceNow solutions across multiple modules and applications, including ITSM, ITOM, SPM, Security Operations, HRSD, Service Portals, Workspaces, CMDB and integrations. Expert knowledge of cyber security and IT operations controls, with the ability to design secure, resilient and scalable solutions that embed security by design, automation and AI-driven operations. Significant experience implementing and optimising ServiceNow Security Operations and/or IT Operations Management capabilities within complex enterprise environments. Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to lead investigations into complex business and technical challenges, analyse conflicting information and drive evidence-based recommendations for improvement. Proven track record of designing, implementing, administering and supporting security products and services across cloud and on-premise environments, ensuring compliance with security standards and architectural principles. Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and champion engineering best practice, driving continuous improvement and high-quality service delivery at scale. You and your role As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be a recognised technical expert and trusted leader, shaping how we design, build and support high-quality software solutions. You'll set engineering standards, drive best practice across teams, and champion quality, consistency and continuous improvement. By promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing and the reuse of proven solutions, you'll help teams solve complex challenges and deliver scalable, maintainable services that meet user needs. As part of the leadership team, you'll influence engineering strategy, guide teams through change, and build capability across the wider engineering community. You'll balance competing priorities, make informed decisions in complex environments, and remove barriers to delivery. While you'll remain hands-on when needed, your primary focus will be leading, mentoring and empowering multiple engineering teams, creating an environment where engineers can thrive, innovate and deliver outstanding digital services at scale. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield 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: 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 subject to our assessment of capability at interview. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £21,735 per year. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: 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. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Interview: A single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application
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Lead Test Engineer
DWP Digital - Sheffield, South Yorkshire
£75,026 to £90,627 a year
PermanentFull time
Lead Test Engineer Pay up to £76,339 - £91,672, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a Test Engineering leader? Can you deliver high-quality data solutions at scale? Join us at a pivotal time as we drive forward our ambitious 2030 Data Strategy. We're looking for an experienced Lead Test Engineer to play a key role in shaping and assuring the quality of data products and services across a complex digital landscape that supports millions of users. Working closely with stakeholders across Data & Analytics and the wider DWP Digital community, you'll provide expert testing leadership, influence strategic decisions, develop recommendations, and ensure robust quality assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle. You'll lead the development of testing strategies, champion best practice, and drive test automation across both existing and future data solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of data testing while delivering products and services that make a real difference. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience leading testing across multiple teams, defining and delivering testing strategies for cloud-native, open-source and commercial data platforms, while embedding quality standards, governance, test automation, and best practices across the software delivery lifecycle. Extensive experience designing and implementing functional and non-functional testing strategies, including performance, accessibility, reliability and integration testing for APIs, messaging platforms and modern data services. Proven success leading, recruiting, coaching and developing high-performing Test Engineers, driving continuous improvement and engineering excellence. Expert-level experience in Python-based test automation, with a strong track record of implementing automated API and data testing within cloud CI/CD pipelines, using shift-left approaches to deliver quality early and at scale. You and your role As our Lead Test Engineer, you'll set the standard for quality engineering across DWP's Data & Analytics services. Acting as the senior technical authority for testing, you'll provide leadership and direction to test engineers embedded in agile delivery teams, ensuring quality is built into products and services from the outset. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers and Engineering teams to shape testing strategy, influence technical decisions and embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Supporting a broad portfolio of data and analytics platforms, you'll help assure solutions spanning data movement, integration, storage, analytics and insight generation. Drawing on deep expertise in modern test engineering practices, you'll champion automation, continuous testing and quality by design. You'll provide assurance across functional, performance, accessibility, security and operational testing, helping teams deliver resilient, reliable and trusted services. Working across a complex technology landscape spanning cloud and on-premise environments, you'll identify delivery risks, drive continuous improvement and evaluate emerging tools and approaches to strengthen engineering quality across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in developing our Test Engineering profession, supporting recruitment, mentoring engineers, building capability and helping shape a high-performing testing community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. 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: Pay for this role is from £76,339 - £91,672. The maximum salary for the grade is £81,672 and a Digital Allowance of up to £10,000 per annum subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £23,660 a 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: 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 Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is 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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Lead Test Engineer
DWP Digital - Leeds, West Yorkshire
£75,026 to £90,627 a year
PermanentFull time
Lead Test Engineer Pay up to £76,339 - £91,672, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a Test Engineering leader? Can you deliver high-quality data solutions at scale? Join us at a pivotal time as we drive forward our ambitious 2030 Data Strategy. We're looking for an experienced Lead Test Engineer to play a key role in shaping and assuring the quality of data products and services across a complex digital landscape that supports millions of users. Working closely with stakeholders across Data & Analytics and the wider DWP Digital community, you'll provide expert testing leadership, influence strategic decisions, develop recommendations, and ensure robust quality assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle. You'll lead the development of testing strategies, champion best practice, and drive test automation across both existing and future data solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of data testing while delivering products and services that make a real difference. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience leading testing across multiple teams, defining and delivering testing strategies for cloud-native, open-source and commercial data platforms, while embedding quality standards, governance, test automation, and best practices across the software delivery lifecycle. Extensive experience designing and implementing functional and non-functional testing strategies, including performance, accessibility, reliability and integration testing for APIs, messaging platforms and modern data services. Proven success leading, recruiting, coaching and developing high-performing Test Engineers, driving continuous improvement and engineering excellence. Expert-level experience in Python-based test automation, with a strong track record of implementing automated API and data testing within cloud CI/CD pipelines, using shift-left approaches to deliver quality early and at scale. You and your role As our Lead Test Engineer, you'll set the standard for quality engineering across DWP's Data & Analytics services. Acting as the senior technical authority for testing, you'll provide leadership and direction to test engineers embedded in agile delivery teams, ensuring quality is built into products and services from the outset. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers and Engineering teams to shape testing strategy, influence technical decisions and embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Supporting a broad portfolio of data and analytics platforms, you'll help assure solutions spanning data movement, integration, storage, analytics and insight generation. Drawing on deep expertise in modern test engineering practices, you'll champion automation, continuous testing and quality by design. You'll provide assurance across functional, performance, accessibility, security and operational testing, helping teams deliver resilient, reliable and trusted services. Working across a complex technology landscape spanning cloud and on-premise environments, you'll identify delivery risks, drive continuous improvement and evaluate emerging tools and approaches to strengthen engineering quality across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in developing our Test Engineering profession, supporting recruitment, mentoring engineers, building capability and helping shape a high-performing testing community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. 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: Pay for this role is from £76,339 - £91,672. The maximum salary for the grade is £81,672 and a Digital Allowance of up to £10,000 per annum subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £23,660 a 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: 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 Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is 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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Lead Test Engineer
DWP Digital - Blackpool, Lancashire
£75,026 to £90,627 a year
PermanentFull time
Lead Test Engineer Pay up to £76,339 - £91,672, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a Test Engineering leader? Can you deliver high-quality data solutions at scale? Join us at a pivotal time as we drive forward our ambitious 2030 Data Strategy. We're looking for an experienced Lead Test Engineer to play a key role in shaping and assuring the quality of data products and services across a complex digital landscape that supports millions of users. Working closely with stakeholders across Data & Analytics and the wider DWP Digital community, you'll provide expert testing leadership, influence strategic decisions, develop recommendations, and ensure robust quality assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle. You'll lead the development of testing strategies, champion best practice, and drive test automation across both existing and future data solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of data testing while delivering products and services that make a real difference. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience leading testing across multiple teams, defining and delivering testing strategies for cloud-native, open-source and commercial data platforms, while embedding quality standards, governance, test automation, and best practices across the software delivery lifecycle. Extensive experience designing and implementing functional and non-functional testing strategies, including performance, accessibility, reliability and integration testing for APIs, messaging platforms and modern data services. Proven success leading, recruiting, coaching and developing high-performing Test Engineers, driving continuous improvement and engineering excellence. Expert-level experience in Python-based test automation, with a strong track record of implementing automated API and data testing within cloud CI/CD pipelines, using shift-left approaches to deliver quality early and at scale. You and your role As our Lead Test Engineer, you'll set the standard for quality engineering across DWP's Data & Analytics services. Acting as the senior technical authority for testing, you'll provide leadership and direction to test engineers embedded in agile delivery teams, ensuring quality is built into products and services from the outset. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers and Engineering teams to shape testing strategy, influence technical decisions and embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Supporting a broad portfolio of data and analytics platforms, you'll help assure solutions spanning data movement, integration, storage, analytics and insight generation. Drawing on deep expertise in modern test engineering practices, you'll champion automation, continuous testing and quality by design. You'll provide assurance across functional, performance, accessibility, security and operational testing, helping teams deliver resilient, reliable and trusted services. Working across a complex technology landscape spanning cloud and on-premise environments, you'll identify delivery risks, drive continuous improvement and evaluate emerging tools and approaches to strengthen engineering quality across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in developing our Test Engineering profession, supporting recruitment, mentoring engineers, building capability and helping shape a high-performing testing community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. 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: Pay for this role is from £76,339 - £91,672. The maximum salary for the grade is £81,672 and a Digital Allowance of up to £10,000 per annum subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £23,660 a 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: 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 Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is 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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Lead Test Engineer
DWP Digital - Birmingham, West Midlands
£75,026 to £90,627 a year
PermanentFull time
Lead Test Engineer Pay up to £76,339 - £91,672, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a Test Engineering leader? Can you deliver high-quality data solutions at scale? Join us at a pivotal time as we drive forward our ambitious 2030 Data Strategy. We're looking for an experienced Lead Test Engineer to play a key role in shaping and assuring the quality of data products and services across a complex digital landscape that supports millions of users. Working closely with stakeholders across Data & Analytics and the wider DWP Digital community, you'll provide expert testing leadership, influence strategic decisions, develop recommendations, and ensure robust quality assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle. You'll lead the development of testing strategies, champion best practice, and drive test automation across both existing and future data solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of data testing while delivering products and services that make a real difference. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience leading testing across multiple teams, defining and delivering testing strategies for cloud-native, open-source and commercial data platforms, while embedding quality standards, governance, test automation, and best practices across the software delivery lifecycle. Extensive experience designing and implementing functional and non-functional testing strategies, including performance, accessibility, reliability and integration testing for APIs, messaging platforms and modern data services. Proven success leading, recruiting, coaching and developing high-performing Test Engineers, driving continuous improvement and engineering excellence. Expert-level experience in Python-based test automation, with a strong track record of implementing automated API and data testing within cloud CI/CD pipelines, using shift-left approaches to deliver quality early and at scale. You and your role As our Lead Test Engineer, you'll set the standard for quality engineering across DWP's Data & Analytics services. Acting as the senior technical authority for testing, you'll provide leadership and direction to test engineers embedded in agile delivery teams, ensuring quality is built into products and services from the outset. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers and Engineering teams to shape testing strategy, influence technical decisions and embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Supporting a broad portfolio of data and analytics platforms, you'll help assure solutions spanning data movement, integration, storage, analytics and insight generation. Drawing on deep expertise in modern test engineering practices, you'll champion automation, continuous testing and quality by design. You'll provide assurance across functional, performance, accessibility, security and operational testing, helping teams deliver resilient, reliable and trusted services. Working across a complex technology landscape spanning cloud and on-premise environments, you'll identify delivery risks, drive continuous improvement and evaluate emerging tools and approaches to strengthen engineering quality across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in developing our Test Engineering profession, supporting recruitment, mentoring engineers, building capability and helping shape a high-performing testing community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. 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: Pay for this role is from £76,339 - £91,672. The maximum salary for the grade is £81,672 and a Digital Allowance of up to £10,000 per annum subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £23,660 a 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: 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 Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is 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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Lead Test Engineer
DWP Digital - City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester
£75,026 to £90,627 a year
PermanentFull time
Lead Test Engineer Pay up to £76,339 - £91,672, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a Test Engineering leader? Can you deliver high-quality data solutions at scale? Join us at a pivotal time as we drive forward our ambitious 2030 Data Strategy. We're looking for an experienced Lead Test Engineer to play a key role in shaping and assuring the quality of data products and services across a complex digital landscape that supports millions of users. Working closely with stakeholders across Data & Analytics and the wider DWP Digital community, you'll provide expert testing leadership, influence strategic decisions, develop recommendations, and ensure robust quality assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle. You'll lead the development of testing strategies, champion best practice, and drive test automation across both existing and future data solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of data testing while delivering products and services that make a real difference. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience leading testing across multiple teams, defining and delivering testing strategies for cloud-native, open-source and commercial data platforms, while embedding quality standards, governance, test automation, and best practices across the software delivery lifecycle. Extensive experience designing and implementing functional and non-functional testing strategies, including performance, accessibility, reliability and integration testing for APIs, messaging platforms and modern data services. Proven success leading, recruiting, coaching and developing high-performing Test Engineers, driving continuous improvement and engineering excellence. Expert-level experience in Python-based test automation, with a strong track record of implementing automated API and data testing within cloud CI/CD pipelines, using shift-left approaches to deliver quality early and at scale. You and your role As our Lead Test Engineer, you'll set the standard for quality engineering across DWP's Data & Analytics services. Acting as the senior technical authority for testing, you'll provide leadership and direction to test engineers embedded in agile delivery teams, ensuring quality is built into products and services from the outset. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers and Engineering teams to shape testing strategy, influence technical decisions and embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Supporting a broad portfolio of data and analytics platforms, you'll help assure solutions spanning data movement, integration, storage, analytics and insight generation. Drawing on deep expertise in modern test engineering practices, you'll champion automation, continuous testing and quality by design. You'll provide assurance across functional, performance, accessibility, security and operational testing, helping teams deliver resilient, reliable and trusted services. Working across a complex technology landscape spanning cloud and on-premise environments, you'll identify delivery risks, drive continuous improvement and evaluate emerging tools and approaches to strengthen engineering quality across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in developing our Test Engineering profession, supporting recruitment, mentoring engineers, building capability and helping shape a high-performing testing community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. 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: Pay for this role is from £76,339 - £91,672. The maximum salary for the grade is £81,672 and a Digital Allowance of up to £10,000 per annum subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £23,660 a 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: 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 Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is 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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Lead Test Engineer
DWP Digital - Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
£75,026 to £90,627 a year
PermanentFull time
Lead Test Engineer Pay up to £76,339 - £91,672, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a Test Engineering leader? Can you deliver high-quality data solutions at scale? Join us at a pivotal time as we drive forward our ambitious 2030 Data Strategy. We're looking for an experienced Lead Test Engineer to play a key role in shaping and assuring the quality of data products and services across a complex digital landscape that supports millions of users. Working closely with stakeholders across Data & Analytics and the wider DWP Digital community, you'll provide expert testing leadership, influence strategic decisions, develop recommendations, and ensure robust quality assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle. You'll lead the development of testing strategies, champion best practice, and drive test automation across both existing and future data solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of data testing while delivering products and services that make a real difference. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience leading testing across multiple teams, defining and delivering testing strategies for cloud-native, open-source and commercial data platforms, while embedding quality standards, governance, test automation, and best practices across the software delivery lifecycle. Extensive experience designing and implementing functional and non-functional testing strategies, including performance, accessibility, reliability and integration testing for APIs, messaging platforms and modern data services. Proven success leading, recruiting, coaching and developing high-performing Test Engineers, driving continuous improvement and engineering excellence. Expert-level experience in Python-based test automation, with a strong track record of implementing automated API and data testing within cloud CI/CD pipelines, using shift-left approaches to deliver quality early and at scale. You and your role As our Lead Test Engineer, you'll set the standard for quality engineering across DWP's Data & Analytics services. Acting as the senior technical authority for testing, you'll provide leadership and direction to test engineers embedded in agile delivery teams, ensuring quality is built into products and services from the outset. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers and Engineering teams to shape testing strategy, influence technical decisions and embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Supporting a broad portfolio of data and analytics platforms, you'll help assure solutions spanning data movement, integration, storage, analytics and insight generation. Drawing on deep expertise in modern test engineering practices, you'll champion automation, continuous testing and quality by design. You'll provide assurance across functional, performance, accessibility, security and operational testing, helping teams deliver resilient, reliable and trusted services. Working across a complex technology landscape spanning cloud and on-premise environments, you'll identify delivery risks, drive continuous improvement and evaluate emerging tools and approaches to strengthen engineering quality across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in developing our Test Engineering profession, supporting recruitment, mentoring engineers, building capability and helping shape a high-performing testing community. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. 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: Pay for this role is from £76,339 - £91,672. The maximum salary for the grade is £81,672 and a Digital Allowance of up to £10,000 per annum subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £23,660 a 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: 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 Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is 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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Head of Secure Design
DWP Digital - Manchester, Greater Manchester
£75,026 to £92,522 a year
PermanentFull time
Pay up to £92,522, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195 billion each year, supporting millions of people across the UK. Working Age Services delivers some of the nation's most critical public services, including Universal Credit. As Head of Secure Design, you'll lead the security, fraud and risk strategy that protects these services, ensuring secure design principles are embedded across digital delivery. Working across one of government's largest and most complex digital estates, you'll shape security at scale, balancing the protection of essential citizen services with innovation, transformation and the delivery of trusted digital experiences. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Experienced in providing strategic leadership in a complex cyber security environment, setting clear direction and leading specialist teams to deliver effective risk management outcomes, while communicating to multidisciplinary stakeholders and direct reports. Expert knowledge of leading innovation in protective security, taking into account the need to balance security requirements against service innovation. Expert in combining external threat information, organisational context and situational awareness to provide a holistic threat understanding capability, including the use of threat models and communicating to relevant stakeholders. Able to provide strategic oversight and leadership for specific experts (be they pen-testers, Security Architects, Dev Sec Ops, product or compliance assurance, for example) in the context of driving change and being confident to challenge. Proven experience in developing approaches to effectively manage risk through the full risk lifecycle. Evidence of communicating risk in clear terms to enable informed decision making and prioritisation. Proven record of working on a large high impact programme or enterprise scale operation. You and your role As Head of Secure Design, you'll provide strategic leadership for cyber security, fraud risk and secure design across Working Age Services. You'll enable informed, risk-based decision making while ensuring services remain secure, resilient and trusted. Leading the Secure Design function, you'll work with senior leaders, security specialists and multidisciplinary teams to embed security from the outset. You'll shape standards and controls, oversee risk and assurance activity, and strengthen the department's response to emerging threats, vulnerabilities and fraud risks. You'll play a central role in the digital transformation of services used by millions of people, modernising security approaches and enabling the safe delivery of services at scale. This is a rare opportunity to influence the future security direction of one of government's most important digital portfolios, protecting public services, citizen data and taxpayer value. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester or Newcastle Upon Tyne, 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 £92,522. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%. 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: 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 Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is 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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