OVERVIEW
Please note: The successful candidate will be based out of one of the following locations: Leeds/ Manchester/ Newcastle. Onsite presence will be 60% this is non-negotiable. The successful candidate must be eligible and willing to go through SC Clearance.
Within Working Age Services Digital, we are responsible for a number of existing services which support the core of society and is the department’s highest profile benefit service, Universal Credit.
We are looking for outstanding Technical Leads who can make a positive impact and want to contribute to one of the most demanding and important Government services for the UK.
Let’s be clear about the impact of your work – the products we build are the changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.
We are looking for the kind of person who enjoys a challenge. Working Age Services is undergoing a period of technical change in line with our technical strategy – becoming more consistent in our ways of working, more standardised in our technical stacks, providing coherent shared capabilities to underpin the way we operate, and transforming some of our service’s monolithic architectures into microservices.
You will be a hands-on technical leader, leading one of our teams that either: develop our agent or citizen facing digital systems; OR provide shared capabilities that allow us to build, assure, deploy and operate these services.
Interview Process: Please note the process for DWP is a 3 stage process Initial sift of cvs / 2nd stage Maze test to be returned within 5 days or automatic fail/ 3rd stage a 2 hour technical based teams interview. Please only submit candidate that are happy to go through the process and be mindful this not a quick turnaround
RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Technical Lead, you will:
- set direction for your service/capability and your team that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence);
- ensure that your teams work aligns to standards;
- have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services;
- ensure that you team follow best practice;
- be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making;
- have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture.
- As well as being a hands-on engineer, the successful candidate will be expected to lead other engineers as well as actively collaborate, champion technical evolution within the organisation, and ensure that your team is helping to achieve overarching strategic aims.
SKILLS & QUAIFICATIONS
- Significant demonstrable experience in one or both of:
- modern software engineering for digital products (ideally Java, microservice architectures, Hexagonal software architecture, Mongo and Kafka);
- OR designing and implementing modern cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and automation (ideally AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI, Jenkins);
- Significant demonstrable experience of leading engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance, and coaching and mentoring to support team member development opportunities
- Significant demonstrable experience of engineering best practice in version control, secure design practices, assurance.
- Significant demonstrable experience of collaboration & sharing of knowledge and good practice with the wider software engineering community
- Significant demonstrable experience of working and leading in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple stakeholders.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Flexible/adaptable. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change.
- Takes responsibility/ownership. Proactively removes blockers to ensure that work is delivered. Is able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort.
- High standards. Is committed to quality and is therefore willing to challenge colleagues and to constantly question their own approach.
- Openness to criticism and ideas. Draws value from collaboration with others. Actively seeks input from colleagues and values a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
- Strategic thinking and visioning. Able to understand and communicate the big picture and use it to prioritise and judge impact of smaller tasks and objectives.
- Creativity/innovation. Generates new and innovative approaches to problems. Isn’t bound by the status quo..