Senior Technical Lead

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

Are you an engaging leader with advanced technical skills?
Are you a domain expert who thrives on designing and developing secure solutions?
If so, click that apply button now and join us as a Senior Technical Lead.
Senior Technical Leads (Security) are responsible for the development of secure and highly available computing platforms, applications, and services. Utilising Technical expertise in multiple domains to develop technical product roadmaps and manage product lifecycles ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy.
As a Senior Technical Lead, you will be a skilled Practitioner in Security solutions. You will lead in the design and operation of secure services and software in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability, and quality, you will be accountable for secure solutions.
You will work in our Security Ecosystem team, supporting the delivery of Security related Projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment to Security best practice and compliance requirements. You will lead on technical decisions and approvals for solutions across the team. The Senior Technical Lead should provide technical input into business discussions to direct wider DWP strategy as required based on their deep technical experience in areas such as software development, site reliability engineering, DevOps, and solution architecture.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see ‘Selection process details’.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The successful candidate will be involved in the following day to day tasks:

• Responsible for providing expert domain knowledge and advice to project teams when dealing with complex projects or issues.
• Responsible for the management of allocated resources, the achievement of defined objectives and performance management of those resources.
• Maintain relationships both internally and externally, reconciling on priorities and agreeing on approach, tooling, or strategy improvements.
• Advise on problems arising from specific work programmes or from implementation of proposed changes in Departmental policy and make balanced recommendations.
• Managing performance against the technical roadmap for every product within responsible function area.
• Advise senior DWP stakeholders on the development of DWP technical strategy including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
• Work with production, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure highly resilient, secure, and available products.
• Work closely with delivery team to ensure alignment to DWP standards and best practice for all product development and support.

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NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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The successful candidate will be involved in the following day to day tasks:

• Responsible for providing expert domain knowledge and advice to project teams when dealing with complex projects or issues.
• Responsible for the management of allocated resources, the achievement of defined objectives and performance management of those resources.
• Maintain relationships both internally and externally, reconciling on priorities and agreeing on approach, tooling, or strategy improvements.
• Advise on problems arising from specific work programmes or from implementation of proposed changes in Departmental policy and make balanced recommendations.
• Managing performance against the technical roadmap for every product within responsible function area.
• Advise senior DWP stakeholders on the development of DWP technical strategy including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
• Work with production, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure highly resilient, secure, and available products.
• Work closely with delivery team to ensure alignment to DWP standards and best practice for all product development and support