Lead Technical Architect

Lead Technical Architect Pay up to £99,836, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work-life balance. Do you want to lead on the modernisation of systems that deliver billions of pounds in payments every week to citizens who rely on our support? As a Lead Technical Architect in DWP Payments, you''ll operate at one of the highest levels of architectural leadership within DWP Digital. Payments is one of the most critical service areas in government, responsible for ensuring accurate, reliable and timely payments to millions of people. We are one of the biggest payers in the UK, across benefits and pensions and we''re modernising our payments estate. We are moving away from legacy systems and designing future proofed, event driven, API led architectures that are resilient, scalable and secure. You''ll guide the technical strategy for major transformation initiatives, shaping how our next generation payments platform will work. You''ll provide expert architectural leadership across cloud, on premise and hybrid environments, and work with multidisciplinary teams to design and govern high risk, high impact solutions. You''ll collaborate closely with delivery teams and senior stakeholders, offering clear options and recommendations that influence technology decisions at scale. This is an exciting time to join us. The scale is huge, the challenge is real, and the opportunities for impact are significant. You''ll help ..... full job details .....