Lead Software Engineer

Are you ready to lead and influence engineering at scale, shaping how software is built across one of the UK's largest digital organisations?

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll join our Health & Disability area at DWP Digital, playing a critical leadership role in shaping how we build and deliver modern digital services. You'll lead a blend of DWP and supplier engineers across multiple teams, setting direction, establishing engineering standards, and driving consistency, quality, and pace across delivery.

You'll be at the forefront of transforming our engineering capability, helping to embed modern practices and approaches such as microservices and event-driven architecture. This is a strategic leadership role where your work will directly impact how we design and deliver services supporting citizens at key moments in their lives.

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 can lead multiple engineering teams, guiding how they work and helping them improve how they deliver software
• You're highly skilled in modern programming languages like Java or JavaScript/Node, and understand how to apply them at scale
• You've worked extensively with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, building and running services in live environments
• You understand Test-Driven Develop men...