Senior Technical Architect - Department for Work and Pensions - G7

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, this role will be based at Benton Park View from September 2025, and then at 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.

About the job

Job summary

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

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, these roles may be perfect for you!

We are looking for experienced Senior Technical Architects who are confident working on products and services in a complex digital environment, where you’ll be supporting major initiatives within DWP Digital.

You’ll join our Data Enablement team, responsible for managing a variety of data products, including those related to welfare benefits, citizen journeys, and reference/meta-data services. These products are created by transforming raw data into curated, user-friendly data that can be easily understood and used by end users. The Data Enablement team also owns a data quality tool and a data analytics platform (SAS), which is currently undergoing a major migration from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.

The role holder will transform business requirements into architecture designs, obtain approval from governance bodies, and work with agile delivery teams to exercise architecture assurance throughout the project lifecycle.

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.

Job description

A Senior Technical Architect works with multiple projects or teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking.

At this role level, you will:

Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions.
Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government.
Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment.
Provide mentoring within teams.

Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

Data Warehousing: concepts, tools, and technologies (e.g., Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, SAS Viya) AND experience in building and maintaining enterprise data warehouses and data marts for reporting and analytics.
Analytics & Reporting: Data warehousing, Data Lakes, business intelligence (BI) and analytics technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice.
Data Architecture Design: Data Modelling, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Data Governance.
Architecture design across on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration aspects.
Architecture design informed through use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
Architecture design through use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent.
Architecture design presentation to technical governance forums, responding to challenge with compelling arguments, adapting based on feedback, with a track record of successful approvals.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Mark.harbottle@dwp.gov.uk.