DWP Digital

DWP’s agile response to COVID-19: scaling Universal Credit to meet demand

Tom Padgham - Deputy Director for Engineering and Patrick Downey - Head of Platforms for Universal Credit, DWP Digital, 14 December 2020 - Agile development, coronavirus, Engineering, Universal Credit

Most businesses can predict the amount of traffic that they’ll get to their online services. When COVID-19 hit we were faced with an unprecedented demand for Universal Credit. Find out how we handled the unexpected.

What Digital With Purpose means for DWP’s customers

Helen Roberts, director, Children, Retirement and Counter Fraud, 8 December 2020 - Digital Delivery, DWP Digital, DWP Digital Strategy

Our Digital With Purpose agenda will shape the future direction of DWP Digital - here director Helen Roberts talks about what the campaign involves, and the impact it will have on our customers

We’ve been voted Best Public Sector Employer of women

DWP Digital team, 4 December 2020 - Digital Voices, Diversity, DWP Digital, Women in Digital

We are thrilled to have won the accolade of Best Public Sector Employer in the Women in Tech Employer Awards. Find out why we think we deserve the award.

Remote access during lockdown: how we introduced a virtual DWP desktop experience

Joanne Delap, product manager, 30 November 2020 - Hybrid Cloud, Universal Credit

With staff working from home and a rise in requests to use our services due to the coronavirus pandemic, our team had to work fast to find remote working solutions. Here, product manager Joanne Delap explains some of the ways we responded, and how they're impacting our ways of working as we move forward.

Focusing on innovation is exciting for software developers

Ishmael Burdeau - senior software engineer, DWP Digital, 20 November 2020 - Automation, Digital DWP jobs, innovation, Recruitment, Software Engineering

Ishmael is excited about the technology we're using to to innovate and expand our potential. There's never been a better time to join us, find out why.
We're recruiting in software engineers right now.

Inside the mind of a security architect

Sam Hehir, Security Architect, DWP Digital, 12 November 2020 - Architecture, DWP Digital, Security, Work-life balance

Sam Hehir explains what it's like working as a security architect in DWP Digital.

Migrating the award-winning Tell Us Once service

Jonny Williams, Delivery Manager, 9 November 2020 - Cloud services, Infrastructure engineering, Tell Us Once

Delivery Manager Jonny Williams explains how we migrated the infrastructure for our award-winning Tell Us Once service.

National Stress Awareness Day 2020: understanding and managing stress

Kath Cheer, The Charity for Civil Servants and Andrew Hebson, The Charity for Civil Servants, 4 November 2020 - Mental health

To mark National Stress Awareness Day 2020, we have a guest post from The Charity For Civil Servants on how to recognise stress and some tips on how to combat it

The best move I ever made: my career change to infrastructure services

David Cochran - Digital Network Services, Infrastructure Services, 29 October 2020 - DWP Digital, Infrastructure engineering, Recruitment

We're recruiting into our Infrastructure Services teams right now. David made the career change, find out how you could too.

My life as an enterprise architect in DWP Digital…

Colin McDonald, Enterprise Architect, 16 October 2020 - Architecture, DWP Digital, Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architect Colin McDonald talks about his role at DWP Digital and the flexible, family-friendly environment.

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