Lead Technical Architect

Job Title: Lead Technical Architect

Pay up to £75,026 - £96,683 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

Shape the future of one of Europe's largest digital transformation programmes.

Are you passionate about designing modern, scalable, and secure technology solutions that make a real difference to millions of people?

We're looking for talented Lead Technical Architects to play a pivotal role in defining and delivering architecture for critical digital services across DWP Digital. Working within a complex and evolving technology landscape, you'll help shape strategic technology decisions that support some of the UK's most important public services.

As a Lead Technical Architect, you'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, senior stakeholders, and architecture communities to design innovative solutions, provide expert technical leadership, and influence technology direction across major programmes and products.

You'll be responsible for driving solution design, ensuring architectural integrity and governance, and helping teams deliver secure, resilient, and user-centred services at scale.

This is an exciting opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, shape enterprise-wide technology choices, and contribute to services that support millions of citizens every day.

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.

Capability in translating complex business requirements into robust technical architectures, with clear traceability, stakeholder engagement and influence over technology decisions.

Proficiency in architecture modelling and solution design,...