Senior Technical Lead
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Pay up to £89,995 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
Were looking for an outstanding Senior Technical Lead, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.
These roles are in our Security Ecosystem team, supporting the delivery of Security related Projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment to Security best practice and compliance requirements.
Were using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.
DWP is the UKs largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. Wed love you to join us.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
An appreciation of information security, designing solutions and services with security controls embedded.
Experience of implementing enterprise security tooling and platforms in line with the NIST cyber security framework or equivalent, and CIS security controls.
A deep understanding of each layer of an organisations cyber security controls, being able to define solutions that enable defence in depth.
The ability to lead 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.
Skilled in designing, implementing, administrating and supporting security products and services, ensuring adherence to digital security standards and architectural principles both on premise and in Cloud.
You and your role
Our Senior Technical Leads (Security) are responsible for the development of secure and highly available computing platforms, AWS, SaaS, Azure 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 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, DevSecOps, and solution architecture
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: Youll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.
Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £89,995.
Pension: Youll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £21,000 per year.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. Youll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
Time off volunteering and charitable giving
Bring your authentic self to work with I Can Be Me in DWP
Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so its even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
Process:
We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:
Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Therell be full instructions when you click through.
Interview: a single stage interview online.
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