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Role: Senior Agile Delivery Manager Contract Length: 12 months Location: Newcastle, Leeds or Birmingham (60% office attendance p/w). Commute must be 60 – 90 mins max each way. IR35: inside Role Context Client is forming a new software engineering team to address a defined backlog of ~20–30 items focused on service security, testability, resilience and recoverability. This role is not a coordination-only delivery role. We require a highly experienced Delivery Manager who can operate immediately and sustainably in a hands-on Scrum Master / agile delivery capacity, working directly with engineers on day-to-day delivery. You will work closely with a Senior Technical Business Analyst and Architect to ensure the backlog is technically ready, prioritised and executable before and during active sprint delivery. Core Purpose The Senior Agile Delivery Manager is a technical delivery leader responsible for the hands-on delivery of software within a modern engineering environment. You will: • Lead agile ceremonies,, • Actively manage delivery risks and dependencies,, • Influence and engage senior stakeholders, and, • Enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality software outcomes. Recent, applied experience leading software development teams is essential. Statements of capability or aspiration without evidence will not be considered sufficient. Key Responsibilities Agile Delivery (Hands-on) • Act as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for a software engineering team on a day-to-day basis., • Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives., • Actively remove delivery blockers and manage scope, flow and prioritisation., • Maintain delivery momentum across a sustained period of active build work. Software Delivery & Technical Engagement • Work directly with software developers, testers and DevOps engineers., • Understand and manage delivery within modern software engineering lifecycles., • Engage confidently with technical discussions and trade-offs., • Support delivery across complex technical concerns (e.g. resilience, security, recoverabil-ity). Note: Experience limited to cloud migration programmes, CRM implementations (e.g. Dynamics) or systems integration / database-only delivery will not meet the requirements of this role unless there is clear, recent evidence of hands-on software product delivery. Senior Stakeholder Influence • Influence and challenge senior technical and non-technical stakeholders., • Provide clear, evidence-based delivery reporting., • Build trust through consistent delivery performance and transparency. Planning, Coordination & Reporting • Maintain and refine prioritised backlogs with Product Managers and technical leads., • Proactively manage risks, issues and cross-team dependencies., • Use Jira effectively for planning, tracking and reporting at team and initiative level., • Complete delivery-related governance and change activity (e.g. ServiceNow). Essential Skills & Experience (Mandatory) Candidates must clearly evidence the following on their CV: • Recent, hands-on agile delivery experience with software development teams, • Operating as a Scrum Master / Delivery Manager in active software build, • Delivery within modern engineering environments, including: o Version control (e.g. Git) o CI/CD pipelines o Cloud-native or platform-based services • Strong senior stakeholder engagement and influence, • Practical experience managing delivery risks, dependencies and complex backlogs, • High proficiency in Jira (team and programme level), • SFIA Level 6 capability demonstrated through applied experience, not role titles CVs must describe what was delivered, how it was delivered, the technical challenges in-volved and how they were overcome. Technical Environment (Experience Required) The successful candidate will have worked recently and directly with engineering teams using technologies and practices such as: • Cloud platforms (e.g. Azure and/or AWS) as part of software delivery, not migration on-ly, • Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform), • CI/CD tooling and modern DevOps practices, • Automated testing and quality practices, • Secure, resilient digital services Desirable Experience • Experience with platform engineering or data engineering teams, • Previous experience working within DWP or wider UK government digital services, • Use of ServiceNow for delivery/change processes Location & Attendance (Critical) • Candidates must be able to attend Newcastle, Leeds or Birmingham offices regularly (minimum 60%), • Commute assessment is home-to-office, not city-to-city, • Long or unrealistic commutes are not sustainable and will not be considered

As a Senior IT Service Manager in DWP Digital, you will help ensure our major products and services deliver strong performance, great user experience and value for money. We are looking for an experienced ITSM to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're using fresh ideas and leading-

Join DWP as a Senior Cyber Security Risk Manager and help shape how we protect and secure some of the UK's largest digital services. A broad platform knowledge and ability to conduct cyber security assessments from a multi-platform perspective. Research, evaluate and assess known/emerging security r

Hands on experience in Implementation, Migration, Operations and Support of Backup applications. Demonstrable use of Rubrik backup solutions across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, OCI GCP) and on-premises infrastructure and experience of Integration of Rubrik with external platforms (e. A day as a Backup a

Lead Enterprise Architect Pay up to £99,836, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. Join us and shape how one of the UK's largest digital organisations connects, scales and secures the technology that underpins services for millions of citizens As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you'll join DWP Digital's Enterprise Architecture community - a team that designs the strategic technology direction for our entire organisation. You'll lead the development of DWP's reference architectures and digital blueprints, ensuring our systems evolve in a secure, modern and sustainable way. Your work will influence multi-billion-pound services, helping us manage technical risk, reduce complexity and drive transformation across a vast and critical technology estate. This is a high-impact, highly visible role. You'll be the recognised expert in integration architecture across DWP, shaping strategic decisions, guiding senior leaders and enabling the adoption of modern technologies. You'll balance big-picture vision with deep technical insight, helping teams across DWP and government deliver better, more resilient services. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? • You understand modern and legacy integration patterns, and know how technologies like APIs, events, messaging, file transfer and cloud-based integration all fit together across a large, complex organisation., • You have experience leading enterprise-scale architecture for major, business-critical systems - not just designing individual solutions, but shaping whole ecosystems and guiding major technology decisions., • You're confident presenting complex topics to a wide range of audiences - senior leaders, technical teams, cross-government partners and external stakeholders., • You have experience running architecture governance that helps organisations make consistent, informed decisions., • You know how to create reference architectures, principles and standards, and can explain them clearly to technical peers. As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you will be at the heart of shaping DWP's future technology landscape. You'll develop and maintain the DWP Enterprise Architecture, guiding how our systems evolve and ensuring teams have the patterns, standards and frameworks they need to build services confidently and consistently. This role is deeply strategic. You'll work closely with senior stakeholders and executive boards, helping them understand architectural risks, trade-offs and opportunities - ensuring our technology direction stays aligned with DWP's business strategy. You'll lead horizon scanning, keep us aware of industry, government and digital trends, and translate emerging thinking into actionable recommendations for DWP. This position will also play a central role in influencing how we integrate platforms and services across the enterprise. This isn't command-and-control: success comes from chairmanship, collaboration and the ability to bring people together behind a shared architectural vision. You'll work across teams, portfolios and programmes to unblock challenges, shape roadmaps, spark pathfinder projects as well as help technical teams adopt modern integration approaches. As the expert in this domain, you'll often represent DWP across government, contributing to cross-department initiatives and briefing senior leaders (including ministers) on specialist topics. You'll mentor other architects, support Product Delivery Unit teams, and help ensure the architectural 'jigsaw' across DWP fits together coherently. This is a role for someone who wants to originate strategy, shape technology direction at national scale, and leave a legacy that improves the way government works for years to come. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, 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 We offer pay up to £99,836. That's £75,026 salary plus a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £24,810 subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97% 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. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: • 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 it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference, • Sports and social activities, • DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards, • Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024, • Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a two-stage interview online. Click APPLYfor more information and to start your application. JBRP1_UKTJ

As a Lead Technical Architect in DWP Payments, you'll operate at one of the highest levels of architectural le.

We are looking for an experienced Content Designer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

Senior Data Scientist Pay up to £75,493, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work-life balance. Are you ready to use data science to influence and inspire improvements at huge scale? As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll join the Data Science Team within DWP's Working Age Services (WAS) - the area responsible for the digital services behind Universal Credit and other key benefits. You'll work with some of the largest datasets in the UK, helping to transform how citizens manage their accounts online, how legacy benefits move to a multi-benefit platform and how our colleagues deliver services more efficiently. This is a leadership role where your expertise will help shape product development, guide technical direction and ensure that data science is used in the right way, at the right time, for maximum public value. You'll champion best practice, influence strategic decisions and bring clarity to complex environments where data and requirements are often imperfect. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? • You have deep experience building data transformation products, using code to turn raw data into something accurate, useful and repeatable., • You write clean, efficient and well-documented code that follows a specification and can be maintained by others., • You're confident using R or Python, SQL and PySpark to process, analyse and transform data at scale. You and your role As our Senior Data Scientist, you'll play a central role in shaping how Working Age Services uses data to improve digital products used by millions of citizens. You'll work closely with product teams, engineers, analysts and designers to make sure every feature - from small improvements to major redesigns - is backed by robust insight. You'll help set direction for data science within your portfolio, including supporting colleagues you don't directly line manage, and ensuring the best use of skills across teams. That means advising when Data Science is the right approach - and when it isn't. You'll bring clarity to messy problem spaces, especially where data quality or requirements aren't as clear as they need to be. Your work could include anything from helping discover new features, designing experiments and success measures, evaluating changes, improving data reliability, or developing models that support service improvements. You'll use your leadership to influence decisions, prioritise workloads, and keep teams focused on high-value opportunities. This is a role we think is perfect for someone who thrives in imperfect real-world data environments, enjoys cutting through complexity, and knows how to communicate the value of Data Science to a wide range of digital and non-technical stakeholders. You'll help build a culture where data professionals of all types are understood, valued and used effectively. Your impact will be felt across DWP and across society: improving services for claimants, supporting colleagues, and helping shape the future of digital welfare services in the UK. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, 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 ££57,946 to £68,205 plus a Digital Allowance of up to £7,288 per annum subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%. 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. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: • 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 it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference, • Sports and social activities, • DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards, • Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024, • Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. Please note, a degree or higher in STEM ( Science, Technology, engineering, or mathematics) is essential for this role, and evidence of qualification will be requested. Click APPLYfor more information and to start your application. JBRP1_UKTJ

Take control of your time with hybrid working and a Monday to Friday schedule. Youll enjoy a better work-life balance with no shift patterns, allowing you to plan your life around your work. Have you got what it takes to succeed The following information should be read carefully by all candidates. With a professional setting and structured hours, youll avoid the chaos of ward-based nursing and focus on delivering quality assessments. Plus, youll get time built into your day for breaks, CPD, and team meetings. Earn more as you progress through the training stages, starting with a £39,500 rising to £40,500 upon achieving DWP approval, with the potential to earn performance related bonuses your OTE will be around £44,550. Youll also benefit from 25 days holiday, rising to 27 with service, and additional perks like a matched pension, life assurance, and access to wellbeing programmes. What youll do Youll provide comprehensive assessments for the Governments disability allowance (PIP), delivering face-to-face and virtual assessments, telephone assessments, initial review calls and paper-based reports (PBR). Managing your own caseloads gives you variety and autonomy, allowing you to shape each case with your expertise. Youll assess a full range of conditions, including physical, sensory, mental, intellectual and cognitive impairments. What youll need • Qualified Nurse, Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Paramedic, • At least one year of experience after qualification About the company The Disability Service is a leading, multi-national employer. xrnqpay The full-time training lasts five weeks and will help you build the skills needed to carry out these specialist assessments.

If so, come and join us as a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer within DWP Digital. We want skilled Senior AWS DevOps Engineers who are ready to take on challenging and meaningful work that supports the delivery of leading digital services for the UK Government. Are you an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer lo

A major UK government department is looking for a Senior Service Designer to contribute to meaningful service improvements. In this hybrid role based in Birmingham, you will design services that address complex needs and collaborate across various teams.

As an Associate Digital Portfolio Manager, you will focus on supporting the team in ensuring that the portfolio of digital projects or delivery activities within a Service or across DWP Digital, delivers optimal outcomes in contributing to the department's aims and delivers on its digital strategy.

At DWP Digital, you'll design and deliver services that genuinely change lives. Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'. DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards.