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Pay up to £77,740, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. Our Data Platforms Team are hiring an IT Service Manager to lead live support across all of our products and services. You'll define and drive the ITSM strategy for data platforms in DWP, as well as overseeing the well-being of all of our live services including performance, patching, FinOps and resilience. You will work closely with our expert engineering community and Product Owners to ensure cohesive maintenance and security of our services. You'll be a role model. You'll exemplify best practices in IT service management - with a strong focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability, and quality. You'll be the primary escalation point for business and supplier stakeholders, ensuring high level service satisfaction and addressing any issues promptly. You will be part of the Data Platforms Senior Leadership Team. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We're 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 UK's 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. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Experience of leading and facilitating the support of enterprise analytical, data platforms and related IT Products Demonstrable experience in establishing and maintaining strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders Experience of leading high performing teams in a modern digital IT support environment Experience of delivering to agreed service measures/KPI's or project delivery targets in a cost effective and timely manner Experience in developing and continually improving the service management policies, standards and guidance used in delivery of the services. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle, 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 £77,740. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,500. 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: 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 it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: 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. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Pay up to £37,497 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. We are looking for Supplier Managers to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. These roles are all about collaboration with your team, Commercial Leads, suppliers and other key stakeholders to ensure a seamless procurement service to the organisation, supporting DWP's day-to-day operation and development. You'll build the skills and experience to manage contracts, relationships, and procurements that ensure our digital teams have the tools, frameworks, software and partnerships to deliver a once-in-a -change to public services. We have two roles available. One sits within the Digital Modernisation and Efficiency Directorate. This team delivers and improves DWP services and products that impact some of the most vulnerable people in society. We're looking for people who are as motivated by that unique purpose as we are. You will be supporting the delivery and management of key supplier relationships across the lifecycle. The second role is within our Digital Security Transformation Programme. This Programme is working to improve the strength of the Department's Cyber Security by embedding security controls to ensuring we are secure. Note this role is based in Blackpool only, whereas the previous role is available in all other locations listed. DWP. Digital with Purpose. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. Here in DWP Digital Delivery, our teams develop services and product which impact and support some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Our DWP Digital teams are transforming the way DWP works, so that our services are simpler and more accessible for the people that need them. 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? Experience in gathering requirements for supplier engagements and collaborating with Commercial Directorate to place relevant contracts. Ensuring the contract delivers value for money. Experience of building and maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues, Senior Managers and stakeholders. Experience of working with financial management information, monitoring budgets and an understanding of financial forecasts. Evidence of delivering to deadlines in a fast paced and ever-changing environment with conflicting priorities. Evidence of strong communication and engagement skills with the ability to negotiate favourable outcomes for the Business and Department. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, 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 £37,497. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £10, 862 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 24 days and rising to 26 days after one year. 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: 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 it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: 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. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Senior Test Engineer Pay up to £71,017 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. Are you an experienced Test Engineer? Do you want to find new ways to solve problems and achieve big things? Would you love the opportunity to transform products and services that impact some of the most vulnerable citizens? DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for an outstanding Senior Test Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital, to assist in the design of Infrastructure services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles. We're 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 UK's 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. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? (Lead Criteria) Experience leading testing across multiple teams in the lifecycle from understanding business needs to delivery into production. Including technical leadership, test generation, reporting and defect management. Demonstrable skills in a modern programming language and software testing practices and aptitude to learn more. Experience building and maintaining comprehensive, robust, and reliable automated tests against UI's and API's including driving improvements to frameworks. An adaptable team player who understands agile ways of working, can influence others and has experience of shift left principles including CI/CD. Experience of conducting and enabling non-functional testing such as Performance, Security and Accessibility - including test types, test tools, and standards. You and your role As a Senior Test Engineer, you will work within the Digital Modernisation & Efficiency (DME) team to support the delivery of accessible user centred designed services to both citizen and DWP colleagues. This role requires excellent attention to detail, a commitment to quality, a belief in the benefits of faster feedback and the ability to make decisions to manage well assured services. You will collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multi-disciplinary team over hierarchy, working alongside and providing leadership to other Test Engineers as well as both Software and DevOps engineers within the teams around you and the wider community to deliver consistent solutions and strategies. 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 £ 71,017 Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97% , worth over £16,000 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 flexitime. You'll 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 it's 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. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Pay up to £89,995 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. This is a fantastic opportunity to join DWP Hybrid Cloud Services as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and to create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer who is an expert in your field, skilled in multiple disciplines, a role model in Infrastructure operations and has proven experience in the design, development and support of infrastructure services. We're 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 UK's 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. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? (Lead Criteria) Experience of providing technical leadership and support within a team of Infrastructure Engineers. Substantial experience of Azure Significant experience of working with networking including DNS, NSGs, VNETS etc. Significant experience of scripting languages for example Terraform and Python. Substantial experience of version control systems such as Git, Gitlab CI, Gitlab Dedicated. Significant experience of working in an agile environment building, deploying, supporting and operating cloud applications (in particular Azure). You and your role Our Lead Infrastructure Engineers lead a team of senior infrastructure engineers and provide guidance and support for cloud engineers in your area, ensuring they build products and services using industry standards and following DWP good practice. You will be responsible for defining medium to long term strategies for product lines, defining guidelines for the engineering community and leading their adoption across teams in order to deliver quality infrastructure solutions. As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer you will have solid experience of the full application development lifecycle, including supporting live service. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in 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 £89,995 Pension: You'll 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. You'll 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 it's 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. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

DWP. Digital With Purpose. Do you have experience of developing accessible and inclusive Web Content? Want to help us build services that work for every user? DWP is the UK's largest government department. Right now, we're using the latest tech, tooling, and thinking to power a once-in-a-generation digital transformation, building products and services that work better for millions of citizens across the UK. We're looking for an experienced Accessibility Specialist who will support the development and accessibility of our Web Content. We are a small and diverse team, with a passion for improving accessibility, ensuring we are genuinely inclusive to all. Working in a relatively new and rapidly evolving field of expertise within DWP Digital, we are committed to developing our skills and practices further, ensuring that everyone has equal opportunity to contribute and excel. You and your role You'll be part of our Accessibility Standards and Strategy Team. We enable our people to deliver products and services that are accessible and inclusive for DWP customers and colleagues. You will be working with a team of passionate individuals who are all advocates of accessibility. In this role you will assess and improve the technical compliance and usability of digital services with a range of assistive technologies. We identify risks, and opportunities for improvement by engaging with a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Offering technical expertise and recommendations, you will play an important part of ensuring we become genuinely accessible to all. As an experienced accessibility professional, you can expect to train and mentor junior members of our team on best practice and approach. This will include creating and sharing guidance, assisting with end user training and digital inclusion topics, such as how to facilitate inclusive meetings. This is a really varied role, with opportunity to work across the entire department on a multitude of projects all centred around embedding accessibility. Plus, there's a lot of opportunity to engage with and contribute to the cross-government accessibility service, sharing on best practices and enhancing understanding. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Experience assessing websites and documents against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), investigating the cause of defects, and explaining the impact on end users. Good understanding of how to make web and document content accessible, using HTML, CSS, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Use of a range of assistive software (screen readers, screen magnifiers & voice recognition software) and automated tools for testing and demonstrating. Leading a team to deliver outcomes with clear objectives and time frames, praising achievement and promoting a positive working environment. Analysis of audit findings to help make difficult decisions and give advice about accessibility. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Leeds, 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 £42,614. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £12,345. 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: 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 it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: 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. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Lead Technical Architect: up to £89,995, plus 28.97% pension, hybrid working, flexible hours and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We want a Lead technical Architect to join a flourishing, supportive tech community delivering one of the largest digital transformations in Europe. We're building on recent successes like bringing our IT in-house, introducing elements such as automation and self-service to our digital services, and accelerating the adoption of public cloud. DWP is the UK's largest government department, responsible for helping people into work and making payments worth over £195 billion a year to support some of the most vulnerable members of our society. You'll play a crucial role in transforming public services used by nearly every person in the UK at key moments in their lives. The scale of our work is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We would love for you to join us. Delivery. Work. Projects. In this role you'll work with our Specialist Devices team, who deliver the right specialist devices and services used by DWP colleagues. In Specialist Devices, we have responsibility for macOS and the physical and virtual environments and solutions for our 3,000 Engineering users. You will also have a remit to look at emerging alternative device solutions for particular use cases which provides the team with a varied and interesting workload, often at the forefront of new technology and adoption in DWP. You will lead on the design, build, and running of products, developing and testing solutions, as we re-engineer our entire engineering environment. We want to put the right devices in the right hands, so that our people can deliver great service to DWP customers. You'll be the architectural lead for the replacement of approximately 8,500 customer-facing devices used in Jobcentres, ensuring accessibility, ease of use, and data security. We've got ambitious plans for changing and improving the basic technology underpinning customer computers. We want to radically change the platform and improve the experience of our internal user base. And we will be creating a data-centred capability to support Digital Workspaces service improvement. It's big, complex stuff, which will transform how DWP works, for us and for our customers. We need you to help us get it right. Your essential skills, knowledge and experience Lead criterion - Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards. Experience in End User devices, including back-end management and support infrastructure e.g. AD, ADFS, ADCS, DNS, DHCP, CMS5, PKI and SSO. Experience of operating systems in Windows, macOS, and Linux desktop. Experience of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions such as VMware Horizon, Citrix, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS), and Azure Virtual Desktop. Technical authoring skills, particularly for the production of technical design and specification documents. Experience with presenting to senior stakeholders. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in either Blackpool or Manchester whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Work: We work a hybrid model, with some time at home and some time in a hub with the team. Pay: We offer competitive pay from £72,664 to £89,995 Pension: You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth up to £21,059 a year. Holidays: You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 , plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave. Our broad benefits package is built around your work-life balance and includes: Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home Family-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 Working in an award-winning environment and culture Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process. Stage 1: Application Stage 2: Interview We know how valuable your time is. We have a clear and succinct hiring process with only TWO STAGES . Click apply now to see the full job description and get started with the next step in your career at DWP Digital .