Senior Technical Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 412504

**Salary**:

- £72,664 - £89,995
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Grade 6

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- DWP - Digital

**Type of role**:

- Digital
Engineering
Information Technology

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- This role may be located in one of the following locations; Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
Are you an experienced Technical Lead?

Do you want to be part of a team that provides services and support to over 20 million people and is responsible for over 730 million benefit payments each year totalling £270 billion?

We are embarking on an ambitious transformation programme to reimagine and make best use of emerging future technologies in the banking industry to ensure that people who get paid by DWP receive the right amount of money, at the right time into the right bank account.

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 package implementation, package configuration, customisation and integration, and solution architecture.

**Job description**:
As a senior Technical Lead, you will:

- Provide a deep understanding of package implementation in Payments, Accounting and Financial Reconciliation.
- Provide technical input into business discussions to direct wider DWP strategy as required based on deep experience in areas such as COTS package selection, package implementation, package configuration, customisation and integration, solution architecture and experience of utilising externally hosted services.
- Utilise expertise in the implementation of externally-hosted services for Payments and Accounting.
- Coordinate technical teams to create and maintain products and services for DWP and also deliver against roadmaps and plans.
- Manage product life cycles ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy and non-functional requirements.
- Support work on critical digital services working across public cloud, On Premise hosting environments and externally hosted services.
- Lead governance and assurance submissions on technical designs for packaged solutions and engage with key stakeholders to secure input and support for subsequent approvals.
- Gather a range of information from different sources and stakeholders to ensure effective decision making, clearly demonstrating a balanced approach to conclusions and recommendations. Especially by advising senior DWP stakeholders on the development of DWP technical strategy including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
- Review existing services and trends in industry to identify areas of improvements and formulate plans to deliver enhancements to enable the development, configuration and management of a quality service.

**Person specification**:
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

- ** Lead criterion** - Extensive experience in a range of package implementations in a large-scale organisation, clearly demonstrating depth and understanding of complex requirements and how the packaged solution is designed, configured and tested to meet those requirements.
- Proven track record in gathering a range of information from different sources and stakeholders to ensure effective decision making, clearly demonstrating a balanced approach to conclusions and recommendations.
- Strong working knowledge and experience in reviewing existing services and external industry trends to identify areas of improvement and formulating plans to deliver enhancements to enable the management of a quality service.
- Detailed working knowledge and a deep understanding of the design, implementation and operation of shared service payment and accounting solutions based on packaged solutions.
- significant experience and a deep understanding of large-scale payment journeys, payment processing, related accounting processes and use of packaged solutions to deliver payment, accounting and reconciliation functionality.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £72,664, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £21,050 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

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