Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) - DWP - G6

Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) - DWP - G6

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 .

Note: For candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will be based at Benton Park View from September 2025, then at 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.

About the job Job summary

Are you interested in collaboratively designing modern IT architecture for major digital transformations in Europe? Do you want to support millions of claimants by designing user-friendly digital services? If yes, these roles may be perfect for you!

We seek Lead Technical Architects experienced in application design, confident working on products and services in complex digital environments, supporting major initiatives within DWP Digital.

You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to support solution delivery, develop options and recommendations, and provide expert advice to inform technology choices.

The roles involve designing, overseeing, and governing architecture for IT solutions that support DWP customers.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional products and services accessible to everyone.

A Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) leads at the highest level, ensuring strategy alignment and adherence.

At this level, you will:

• Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organizations.
• Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation.
• Support multiple teams, utilizing best practices and emerging technologies.
• Inspire and guide other architects to achieve organizational goals.
• Be responsible for governance, resolving complex and high-risk issues, and delivering architecture designs.

Person specification

When detailing your employment history and personal statement, highlight your experience aligned with the essential criteria below:

• Architecture design across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration.
• Design informed by principles, patterns, technical radars, practices, and standards.
• Design experience working with project delivery teams within agile, waterfall, and hybrid environments throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions with traceability for stakeholder review.
• Use of architecture modeling techniques and tools to develop and represent designs.
• Experience with microservice and API-led architecture and integration best practices.
• Design experience with event-based architecture, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modeling techniques, tools, and standards.

For more information about the role, contact .

Behaviours

Assessment during the selection process will focus on these behaviours:

• Leadership
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

Assessment will also cover these technical skills:

• Architect for the whole context (Practitioner)
• Community collaboration (Practitioner)
• Making architectural decisions (Expert)
• Technical design throughout the lifecycle (Expert)