Total 37 Senior Executive level Information Technology job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE98 1YX

Senior Software Engineer: Pay up to £78,517 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.  

DWP. Digital with Purpose.  

This is a fantastic opportunity to join DWP's Garage Live Service team, where we are building automations, using the latest cloud technologies to support digital transformation and improve colleague and customer experiences

To date, The Garage has developed and deployed over 75 solutions that have processed over 45 million transactions. Recognised as a government leader in intelligent automation, The Garage is also acknowledged as leading the way across industry.

DWP is UK's largest department, every year we pay over £120 billion to 18million DWP customers.  

DWP services cover everything from helping children & families right through to supporting relatives of lost loved ones.  

We help people find jobs, support people financially when they are unable to work due to health conditions and make ensure everybody has the money they need to live during their retirement years.  

The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.  

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need to show us in your application?  

• Expert knowledge and extensive experience creating and maintaining robotic process automation using UiPath and Blue Prism, as well as JavaScript/Node.JS and TypeScript technologies, frameworks and design principles. Capable of leading the production of software solutions of the highest quality.*

• Extensive experience of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) practices and techniques.

• Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures.

• Expert knowledge and extensive experience of developing on cloud-based environments like AWS and Azure.

• Knowledge and experience of SQL and NoSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB.

• Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.

• Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture.

You and your role  

As a Senior Software Engineer in The Garage Live Service team, you will be accountable for daily operational stability, ongoing development and maintenance of products and services for DWP.

You will lead and guide multiple technical teams and stakeholders to oversee the smooth transition of products and services built within The Garage into live service running.

You will provide guidance to ensure the development of quality software products that have clean, secure, well-documented code.

To help you really make a difference, you'll be using the best tools and equipment for the job.

To support you in your role, you'll have access to some fantastic learning and development resources; conferences with industry expert speakers, comprehensive instructor-led training, and subscriptions to digital training solutions such as Cloud Academy.

Details. Wages. Perks.  

Location: You'll join us in our brilliant digital hub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  

Hybrid Working: We have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office.  

Pay: In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of up to £78,517 p.a.  

Pension: You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97% (Worth up to £19,000/year).  

Holidays: You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days over time, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.  

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which 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  

• Sports and social activities  

• Working in an award-winning environment and culture  

• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.  

Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs.  

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Role Title: Senior Data/Technical Architect

Duration: contract to run until 31/03/2025

Location: Remote, with potential occasional travel to Newcastle once a month

Rate: up to £624.27 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Clearance required: Active SC

Role purpose / summary

This role is seeking an architect familiar with the technical designs and implementation of basic, enterprise-level data capability (ingestion; lake, warehouse, and lakehouse implementation; obfuscation and PII data handling; and onward use via data pipelines, ETL, etc.). Must be able to interpret and generate architectural designs, bring knowledge and experience around implementations and pitfalls, and strength in explaining, evidencing, and advocating for a solution design directly with clients. Proficiency in AWS (S3, EMR, Lambda, and related ecosystem), as well as Databricks will be key in this effort. Familiarity translating designs to engineering as well as non-technical stakeholders and review boards will be needed as well.

Key Skills/ requirements

• Help chief data architects to interpret an organisation's needs
• Design data models and metadata systems
• Provide oversight and advice to other data architects who are designing and producing data artefacts
• Design and support the management of data dictionaries
• Make sure that your teams are working to the standards set for the organisation by the chief data architects
• Work with technical architects to make sure that an organisation's systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture
• Listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them
• Effectively manage stakeholder expectations
• Manage active and reactive communication
• Support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders
• Understand the appropriate media to communicate findings
• Shape communications for the audience
• Undertake data profiling and source system analysis
• Present clear insights to colleagues to support the end use of the data
• Evolve and define data governance
• Take responsibility for supporting and collaborating around wider governance
• Assure and integrate data services to meet the needs of multiple business services
• Work proactively to ensure the organisation designs architecture that considers data
• Understand the impact on the organisation of emerging trends in data tools, analysis techniques and data usage
• Produce relevant data models across multiple subject areas
• Explain which models to use for which purpose
• Understand industry-recognised data modelling patterns and standards, and when to apply them
• Compare and align different data models
• Develop and set data standards across multiple subject areas
• Act as the escalation point for breaches of data standards and make recommendations about how the organisation should resolve them
• Design an appropriate metadata repository
• Suggest changes to improve current metadata repositories
• Understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata
• Advise less experienced members of the team about metadata management
• Ensure that the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate problems
• Co-ordinate the team to investigate problems, implement solutions and take preventive measures
• Work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals
• Contribute to the development of strategy and policies
• Design data architecture that deals with problems spanning different business areas
• Identify links between problems to devise common solutions
• Work across multiple subject areas, or a single large or complicated subject area
• Produce appropriate patterns Key Technical Skills
• Has experience working with Data capabilities architecture and patterns - lakes, warehouse and cloud
• environments for data analysis / calculations
• Use strategic patterns to build out an approach and architectural diagram of a solution
• Work within an engineering team to guide team members on the best approach to take
• AWS focused
• Knowledge of Databricks and EMR
• Knowledge of Kafka
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

Pay up to £89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

As a highly experienced technical leader joining our Cross Boundary Team, you will drive strategy and innovation, leading on the application development and coordination of technical teams to create and maintain products and services for DWP.

You will be a strategic thinker, with the ability to convey complex ideas and plans to both stakeholders and technical teams.

This role requires a technical specialist who can steer communication between a range of technical resources to ensure alignment to standards and business needs, as well as DWP strategy.

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 anticipating and exploiting opportunities, suggesting and reviewing new technologies to ensure they are fit for purpose and utilised in the best way possible.
• Experience of leading a team of engineers, providing experience, advice, and guidance to a wider team.
• Experience of getting solutions through technical governance, in particular architectural design approval, and understanding how technical governance works within wider governance.
• Experience of assuring corporate services by understanding key risks and mitigation through assurance mechanisms.
• Experience of ensuring solutions meet standards of practice and appropriate governance

You and your role

As a member of the Cross Boundary Team's leadership team, you will be accountable for the application development, coordination and leadership of a large technical team (around 100 resources), creating and maintaining products and services for DWP.

Using your deep technical knowledge, you will provide advice and guidance across internal and external relationships reconciling priorities, agreeing on approach and contextualising proposals submitted for approval. You will make balanced recommendations to mitigate problems resultative of change in Departmental policy.

You will work closely with the delivery team to ensure alignment to the wider DWP technical strategy and achieve mutually acceptable solutions across both internal and external interests.

You will have the expertise to contribute to critical business discussions to inform strategy across areas such as software development, engineering, DevOps and solution architecture.

Due to the size and location of the team, there will be an element of travel required to all hub locations, which will contribute to your hybrid working commitment.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: We You'll join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, 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 £89,995.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,521.

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:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

1. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.