Senior Software Engineer

Details
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Reference number

458723

Salary

£57,946 \- £80,664
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28\.97%
GBP

Job grade

Grade 7### Contract type

Permanent### Business area

DWP \- Digital### Type of role

Digital

Information Technology### Working pattern

Flexible working, Full\-time, Job share, Part\-time### Number of jobs available

3
Contents
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• Location


• About the job


• Benefits


• Things you need to know


• Apply and further information

Location
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This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027\.About the job
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Job summary

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

Are you ready to shape the future of digital services that impact millions of lives?

Want to work on meaningful technology that drives real\-world change?

Join DWP Digital as a Grade 7 Software Engineer in one of our Debt Solutions Teams, where your expertise will help transform how the UK’s largest government department delivers services. We’re building modern, scalable systems that support critical internal functions; from HR and finance to security and compliance, ensuring our colleagues have the tools they need to serve the public effectively.

You’ll work in a collaborative, agile environment alongside talented engineers, architects, and product teams. We value clean code, automation, and continuous improvement. Whether you come from a commercial tech background or have public sector experience, you’ll find opportunities to innovate, lead, and grow.

Debt Solutions are delivering strategic, greenfield programmes to build modern, cloud\-first Debt Management and Compensation Recovery systems to recover approximately £3 billion per annum while protecting the most vulnerable in our society. Our full\-stack digital products include user\-interfaces, APIs and integration platforms, using Azure Cloud, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Azure Service Bus, Postgres, MongoDB and node.js (user\-interfaces).

Make an impact. Build something that matters.

Job description

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be a skilled Practitioner and a role model in software craftsmanship. Responsible for ensuring best practices are adhered to across the department and guiding teams on how to deliver quality software products. You will assist in the design of software products that make up citizen services in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for the code you and your teams produce.

As a Senior Software Engineer, your key responsibilities will include:

• Application modernisation \- rewriting applications and code following engineering standards and best practices.


• Ensuring service continuity through effective incident and problem management.


• Contributing to the migration and integration of systems into Azure cloud platforms.


• Supporting and enhancing applications that support our corporate colleagues and citizens.

Please note: As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.

Person specification

See selection process for further details.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Mark.Harbottle@dwp.gov.uk.

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Technical Breadth

Benefits
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Alongside your salary of £57,946, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £16,786 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work\-life balance which includes:

• Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term\-time working, flexi\-time and compressed hours.


• Generous annual leave – at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.


• Support for financial wellbeing, including interest\-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.


• Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first\-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).


• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.


• Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.


• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

Hybrid Working

This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non\-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.

If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.

If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.

Salary Information

Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £80,664\.

The maximum salary for the grade is £68,205, however a Digital Allowance of up to £12,459 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non\-salary, and non\-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer will maintain their current substantive salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion will move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase applied to their current substantive salary, whichever is greater.

Any temporary allowances that you are currently in receipt of will not form part of the calculation to determine your pay. Any allowances that are in payment will cease when you move into your new role.

Things you need to know
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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.### Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.Stage 1: Application

Your application will consist of four parts:

1\. A Personal Details application form.

2\. Employment history \- this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed.

3\. Personal statement \- up to 1000 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:

• Proven ability to lead software engineering teams, providing technical direction and mentoring junior engineers. You’ll be expected to foster a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across teams.


• Demonstrated experience working in agile, multi\-disciplinary teams to deliver user\-centred digital services. Ability to collaborate effectively with Product Managers, Delivery Managers and other specialists.


• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes). Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.


• Strong hands\-on experience and knowledge of designing, building and deploying API’s, RESTful services or message broker services in a microservice architecture with persistent data using either SQL or NoSQL databases.


• Experience of secure coding practices, test\-driven\-development (TDD) coding practices, service resilience, and operational support. Ability to ensure systems meet quality, security, accessibility and performance standards.

4\. Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of: Technical Breadth. This statement should be used to provide example(s) of how you meet the criterion below:

• Strong hands\-on experience in designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable software using Java in a cloud environment (e.g. Azure/AWS).

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