Senior Technical Lead

Our Senior Technical Leads manage resourcing, budget and technology strategy to facilitate product development and support.

As a deep technical specialist, you will regularly communicate with a range of technical resources, including architects, enterprise infrastructure teams and product owners, to ensure alignment to standards and the delivery of a customer-focussed service that meets business needs throughout its life.

Utilising Technical expertise in multiple domains to develop technical product roadmaps and manage product lifecycles ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy.

Our Senior Technical Lead's 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.

As a member of the CBT's leadership team, you will be accountable for application development and coordinate technical teams of up 100 resources to create and maintain products and services for DWP. Utilising Technical expertise in multiple domains to develop technical product roadmaps and manage product lifecycles ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy.

You will 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.

You will also be responsible for:

• The overarching technical leadership of a large team (around 100 resources) from varied disciplines to provide current and future application development services across DWP.


• Advise senior employees and ministers on development services priorities and provide further information on proposals submitted for approval.


• 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.


• Interpretation and judgements in selecting and analysing a complex set of information, testing options and hypotheses or the co-ordination of views of other internal and external interests to achieve mutually acceptable solutions.


• Ensure product development alignment with and assists in delivery of wider DWP technical strategy.


• Work closely with delivery team to ensure alignment to DWP standards and best practice for all product development and support.
  
  Are you an experienced Technical Lead with experience of working with a variety of stakeholders?


Do you have experience in providing innovative solutions in a business critical team?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Technical Lead to work in our Cross Boundary Team (CBT).

As a member of the CBT's leadership team, you will be accountable for application development and coordinate technical teams of up 100 resources to create and maintain products and services for DWP.