Senior Technical Architect

Job Title: Senior Technical Architect Pay up to £57,946 - £81,267 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. This is a great opportunity for experienced Senior Technical Architects to join DWP Digital.

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will play a pivotal role in designing and governing technology solutions that support critical public services. Working within a complex and evolving digital landscape, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, senior stakeholders and architecture communities to define technology strategies, shape architectural direction and influence key technology decisions.

You will develop and evaluate architectural options, provide expert technical leadership and ensure solutions align with business, security and operational requirements. Join us and help build the digital services of the future.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven expertise in designing enterprise-scale architectures across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, encompassing networking, security, infrastructure, applications, data and integration services.

Ability to apply architectural principles, patterns, standards, technology roadmaps and industry best practices to deliver scalable, secure and future-ready solutions. Proven experience providing architectural leadership across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery environments, guiding solutions from discovery and design through to deployment and live service.

Experience of translating complex business requirements into robust technical architectures, ensuring clear traceability, effective stakeholder engagement and informed technology decision-making. Proficient using architecture modelling techniques, frameworks and tools to develop, document and communicate architectural designs and technical solutions.

Ability to design and govern modern integration architectures, including microservices, APIs and event-driven solutions, applying best practice to deliver resilient, scalable and maintainable services. You and your role Oue Senior Technical Architects play a key role in shaping and influencing the design of systems and services across multiple DWP projects and teams.

You'll work within a uniquely complex digital environment, using broad architectural thinking to solve technical challenges and ensure solutions align with strategic business and technology objectives. You will lead the technical design of systems and services, making informed architectural decisions and clearly communicating the rationale behind them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Your expertise will help ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and fit for ...

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