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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- **Location:** Cleckheaton, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £57,946.0 - £80,664.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Automation of Tests, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platform System, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/senior-software-engineer/47574451

## About the Role

problems. Make a difference at scale. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven experience designing and assuring scalable, resilient and secure technology solutions, ensuring architectural decisions align with organisational strategy, standards and business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead within multidisciplinary agile teams, collaborating with engineers, product managers, delivery professionals and senior stakeholders to shape technical direction and delivery. Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and DevOps principles, ensuring
architecture enables efficient and reliable delivery. Proven ability to embed security, accessibility, performance and operational resilience into architectural designs, ensuring services meet governance, compliance and user needs. You and your role Our Senior Software Engineers provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion engineering best practice across DWP Digital. Working in multi-disciplinary agile teams alongside architects, designers, researchers, analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of engineering across one of the UK's largest government departments. Alongside hands-on engineering, you'll share expertise, grow capability and support the development of others across our

## Description

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £80,664 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Do you want to work on code that counts? We're looking for talented Senior Software Engineers to help shape the future of digital services within the UK's largest government department. You'll work in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design and deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions. Working with technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Java, microservices and CI/CD, you'll help build and improve platforms that support critical public services at scale. We champion engineering excellence, clean code, automation and continuous improvement. Whether you're influencing technical direction, mentoring others or driving best practice, you'll have the opportunity to help deliver services that work for millions people and transform how government works. Build great software. Solve meaningful


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