Technical Lead (Mobile Apps) Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
75931
Location
Manchester
Salary
£60,740 — Up to £82,543
Work hours
37 per week
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 27%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more.
Closing date
22 October 2020
Job description
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
DWP are looking for a Technical Lead with skills and experience in Mobile Applications to work with us on in a massive digital transformation of our products, services and the use experience
This once in a lifetime opportunity to shape the direction of mobile apps development for DWP which will make significant difference to the experience of DWP employees and the lives of millions of DWP users.
If you have hands-on experience in mobile apps development and have defined strategy for mobile apps for a large scale organisation, if you’re passionate about user experience, and thrive on building things right then click apply now. We’d love to hear from you.
Delivery. Work. Projects
You’ll join a multi-disciplinary engineering team as part of our Mobile Products service. Our team is responsible for the deployment, configuration and management of the mobile platform and applications.
Our product team provide an end-to-end design and implementation service. We’re responsible for defining and delivering the mobile application strategy for DWP. Key to this is establishing how we can support an increasingly decentralised workforce, improving the user experience, and increasing operational productivity across a variety of devices and platforms.
We’ve just created a Centre of Excellence for Mobile Application Development. As our Technical Lead you’ll work at the heart of this initiative and be key to its success. You’ll use your knowledge and experience to lead an empowered team. You’ll set the standards and embed best practice.
You’ll have the opportunity define, refine, and implement mobile application development and deployment processes for DWP. You’ll work with the most senior stakeholders to advocate and advise on opportunities for mobile application development.
You will collaborate with Product Owners and Delivery Managers, managing technical resources, budgets, and strategy so that we develop products quickly, consistently to a high standard of quality.
As a deep technical specialist you will regularly communicate with a range of technical experts from across our community. This includes architects, enterprise infrastructure teams and software engineers, to ensure delivery of customer-focused services that demonstrably meet business outcomes throughout their life.
What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?
- You have previous experience of working in a large digital organisation, and/or understand of how large digital organisations operate in the context of this role.
- You have extensive hands on technical experience with mobile application development
- You have contributed to mobile app development strategy and can define best practices, standards and guidelines for the mobile app development
- You can advise senior stakeholders on the development of DWP technical strategy including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
- You build strong relationships both internally and externally, reconciling on priorities and agreeing on approach, tooling or strategy improvements.
- You are comfortable providing expert domain knowledge and advising project teams when dealing with complex projects or issues.
Where You’ll Work
You’ll join us in our brilliant Digital hub in Manchester. We’re right on St Peter’s Square so really easy to get to by bus, bike, train and tram.
Find out more about our working in our hubs here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
We’ve just been shortlisted for a Best Place to Work in Digital Award: https://bit.ly/3lL7DJR
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
Our Offer
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £82,543, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working
- Family friendly policies
- Volunteering and charitable giving
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and mor
- 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
- Learning and development tailored to you career
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application. If you want to talk about this opportunity before you apply contact me via dean.simon@dwp.gsi.gov.uk