DfT Digital Service Team - Department for Transport Careers

Building your career in Digital Delivery

Transport touches the lives of everyone in the country. Across the road, rail, air, sea and space, our transport networks affect homes, businesses, schools, hospitals and more.

The Digital Service team is made up talented, experienced, cross-disciplined teams working with industry leaders using the latest technology and methodologies with to create a modern technologically advanced transport system that will benefit millions of people.

For ourselves, our people and our services, we strive to be Better Everyday and deliver service excellence.

If this is something that strikes a chord and resonates with you – something you’d like to be a part of and play a key role in shaping – please do reach out to us via the contact details for the different roles.

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Why join DfT’s Digital Service Team?

We are very proud of what the Digital Service team has achieved in recent years at DfT: all of our services are cloud-hosted and we have implemented exciting new services using the latest technology and methods with high user satisfaction rates.

As we continue to develop and grow, you can too.  We will support you in reaching your full potential, offering rewarding and challenging opportunities, access to the latest training and technologies. We recognise everyone has different needs and aspirations, we believe creating an inclusive and welcoming working environment so that our people can feel comfortable to be themselves at work.

What we can offer you:

  • Access to new and emerging technologies
  • Support and investment to further your training and development
  • Flexible and hybrid working supporting a healthy work-life balance
  • Industry-leading pension and employee benefits package

What you could be doing in DfT’s Digital Service Team

We have a range of roles available as part of our growth within the team. Please see the roles below to find out more.

Senior Delivery Manager

Our Delivery Managers are central to the smooth running of delivery within the department. Knowledgeable in agile and lean practices, you will be responsible for building inclusive and effective multi-disciplinary teams that can help deliver our challenging portfolio. Working with blended teams of civil servants and consultants you help us deliver digital products and services to meet the user needs of both citizens and DfT staff.

Lead Technical Architect – Data Specialist

Lead Technical Architect – Data Specialist

At the heart of digital evolution in DfT, you will join a talented, experienced, cross-discipline architecture team imagining and shaping the delivery of next generation digital and data services. You will lead on developing the whole data architecture for an organisation which has data at its core delivering innovative transport policy agenda. As DfT becomes a cloud-only enterprise, you will develop the latest data solutions to complex digital, identity and data needs.


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That’s why we’ve put together a page called “How We Hire”, to support you through the recruitment process.

You’ll find lots of useful information from how to tailor your CV and Personal Statement, how to use Success Profiles in your application, to what to expect if you’re offered the job.


What our team have to say

Craig Matthews, Front-end Developer
Amina Omar, Senior Service Designer
Ozair Ishan, Power Platform Developer

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