Technical Security Delivery Lead

For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens.

The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues.

Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.

We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.

DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:

• Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
• Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
• Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
• Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
• Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession

Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:

• OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments
• INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption
• SUPPORT the drive for sustainability throughout DWP
• DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP
• THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government

There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team.

The Technical Security Delivery Manager role has a significant part to play in overseeing the delivery of new security projects and services for the DWP estate. They will ensure the successful delivery of complex security transformation projects involving the replacement of electronic security controls provided through the DWP supply chain. In doing so you will ensure best practice, innovation, and a cost-effective approach is applied throughout the life of the project.

An exciting opportunity, the post-holder will grow the Departments security functionality, identifying security and business benefit opportunities whilst improving performance, reducing costs and maintaining the high standard of security expected across the DWP estate.

Government Property Profession Career Framework (Link)

This role sits within the following:

• Job Family – Workplace & FM
• Core Role – Workplace Management
• Level – Senior Practitioner

Key accountabilities

• Manage the complex, technical delivery of security projects within DWP from inception to completion. Strategic planning with electronic security systems to ensure the estate is ‘future proofed’ against aged and obsolete systems. You will help develop and enhance the Departments electronic security controls and systems, including maximising its data to improve overall security performance, business benefits and safety.
• Accountable for supplier delivery management within the Technical Security Function, you will help manage supplier engagement to ensure all contract obligations are being met and where necessary take corrective action to improve performance and supplier fulfilment. You will help define a clear understanding of the security complexities involved through changes in security contracts whilst resolving complex issues through to resolution.
• Providing leadership on the management and processing of Data generated from the electronic security controls in line with GDPR legislation and DWP policies.
• Working closely with DWP Stakeholders you will identify any security requirement or enhancement to systems including technical changes to ensure the satisfactory delivery of Security Programmes (including the Critical Security Infrastructure (CSI) programme). Responsible for developing DWP’s own security standard, you will work in…