Senior Technical Architect (Solutions) - DWP - G7

Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations; Manchester or Newcastle.

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

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 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.

You’ll play a key role in shaping integration architecture across DWP’s vast digital estate.  Your expertise in APIs, event-driven architecture and enterprise integration patterns will be vital in delivering scalable solutions that support millions of users.

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

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 (Solutions) 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:

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.
Architecture design working with project delivery teams within agile, waterfall and hybrid environments throughout the lifecycle - from concept to go-live.
Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice.
API Management: Experience in designing and implementing APIs (REST/JSON, SOAP/XML, GraphQL), including API lifecycle management, API gateways, HTTP transport and security such as mTLS, OIDC.
Integration Technologies: Proficiency in integration platforms like Kong EE, ISITO, Envoy, IBM WebSphere.
Messaging and Streaming Technologies: Experience with messaging and streaming protocols and systems such as JMS, AMQP, MQTT, IBM MQ, Amazon SQS,SNS, Azure SB, and Kafka, Amazon Kinesis for asynchronous communication between systems.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Akhtar.ali1@dwp.gov.uk.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Leadership
Working Together
Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Architecture communication (Practitioner)
Architect for the whole context (Practitioner)
Community collaboration (Practitioner)
Making architectural decisions (Practitioner)
Strategy design (Practitioner)
Technical design throughout the life cycle (Practitioner)