Senior Digital Project Manager

Full time (Permanent) £57,946 - £68,205 per annum + plus 28.97% pension
Crewe Published on 5 January 2026 Deadline 19 January 2026

Senior Digital Project Manager

Pay up to £68,205, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Are you experienced in leading large-scale digital projects and thrive in a fast paced, evolving environment?

This is your opportunity to join DWP Digital and play a key role in one of Europe's largest digital transformations.

You'll manage complex projects, work with multi functional teams, and deliver innovative services that support millions of people. From modernising legacy systems and driving cloud adoption to creating low code solutions, you'll lead impactful change in a collaborative, forward thinking environment.

We have vacancies on different teams within DWP Digital including:

Core Digital Service - Benefit Payment Services

This team maintains DWP's Core Services, paying £150 billion to over 15 million citizens annually. You'll lead technical delivery across complex digital environments, managing cross cutting projects and infrastructure/software upgrades on legacy systems and services.

Working closely with our security manager, you'll plan and coordinate patches and upgrades to keep applications secure.

As part of the HCS Database Platforms team, you'll lead end to end delivery of multiple projects at pace, working with engineers to ensure DWP's success continuing transition to a hybrid cloud model.

You'll manage risks, issues, and dependencies, reporting progress to the HCS Programme Board. Our team supports critical services impacting millions, driving the shift from on premise to cloud with automation at the core for innovation and efficiency.

Low Code Team

Your team will deliver low code solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, modernising services from scratch or remediating legacy applications.

This transformation replaces unsupported VBA tools with secure, scalable PowerApps aligned to DWP's Digital Strategy. With hundreds of applications relied upon by tens of thousands of users, you'll drive user focused innovation and ensure successful end to end delivery in a dynamic, forward thinking environment.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Skills and experience as a digital project manager.
• Influential - you are able to communicate and lead with impact across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, tailoring messages to ensure that it is right for the audience.
• Experience and proven track record in motivating peers to deliver at pace and set a positive team environment. You can resolve difficult relationships and support teams to overcome conflicts.
• Detailed working knowledge and adept at spotting project risks and blockers to work at removing or action them. You're able to solve or escal page issues quickly and effectively, identifying themes and helping the team learn from experience.
• Experience of procurement, commercial and supplier management and managing budgets. You're a creative and effective planner - both internal and external to team - optimising speed to market, value and quality.
• Adaptable and with proven ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions and to cope effectively with complexity and change.

Location

You'll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

Hybrid Working

We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay

Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £68,205.

Pension

You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £16,758 per year.

Holidays

A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

Process

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

• Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
• Interview: a single stage interview online.

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