Senior Technical Lead
Department for Work and Pensions
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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.
Person specification
When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Has demonstrable experience of information security, designing solutions and services with security controls embedded.
- Has experience of implementing enterprise security tooling and platforms in line with the NIST cyber security framework or equivalent, and CIS security controls.
- Has a deep understanding of each layer of an organisation’s cyber security controls, being able to define solutions that enable defence in depth.
- Leads investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes, driving the collection of information and creation of recommendations for improvements. Can absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions.
- Designs, implements, administers, and supports Security products and services, ensuring adherence to Digital Security Standards and Architectural Principles both on premise and in Cloud.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Natalie.Selby1@dwp.gov.uk.
Benefits
Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% 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:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
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Selection process details
Stage 1: Application
Applications must include:
1. A completed Personal Details application form.
2. A curriculum vitae including education, professional qualifications and full employment history, giving details of key achievements in line with essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.
When uploading your CV, do not include personal information or links to any webpages or profiles that identifies you. This means we can recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity. Take out references to your name/title, age, sex, email address, postal address, telephone number or nationality/immigration status.
When giving details of your redacted CV, you should therefore include details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.
Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign.
Important information
- Please attach your redacted CV as a separate additional document in either PDF or word format.
- If your CV contains any personal details your application may be withdrawn.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Stage 2: Interview
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria.
Interviews will take place from early November 2024.
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A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit, page
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Job contact :
- Name : Natalie Selby
- Email : natalie.selby1@dwp.gov.uk
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- Email : digitalrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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