Senior Oracle Application Engineer

Job summary

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Are you experienced in coordinating software builds and supporting testing activities to ensure successful delivery?

Do you enjoy collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver reliable, secure and high performing digital solutions?

If so, come and join us at DWP Digital.

The DWP is delivering the most significant transformation of the welfare system in over 60 years through the digitisation of our services. With over 22 million customers, we are placing user needs at the heart of everything we do, using modern technologies and digital approaches to create simpler, faster and more accessible services while delivering value for money for the taxpayer.

Payments are central to DWP's mission. As the UK's largest payment provider, we support around 22 million citizens and deliver approximately 280 billion in payments each year, generating around a third of all UK BACS traffic. Ensuring people receive the right payment, at the right time, is fundamental to the services we provide.

As an Oracle EBS Developer, you will be a technical specialist and role model for application development, driving best practice and supporting the delivery of secure, resilient and high performing applications. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to improve service quality, resolve complex challenges and contribute to the continuous evolution of our technology estate.

This is a unique opportunity to join the Digital Payment Services team within DWP Digital, helping to shape the future of payment services across government. Working on the Central Payment System (CPS) Application Development Work Programme, you will contribute to business critical initiatives, deliver complex technical solutions and support the development of modern digital services that are transforming the payments landscape for millions of people across the UK.

Job description

You will assist in the design of Application services ensuring alignment with Architecture and Engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for Application solutions.

Specifically, you will be working on the Central Payments System, a customised Oracle e-Business suite application that supports Payments and Accounting for the Departments Benefits systems, you will be required to maintain, support and develop some complex customisations and interfaces to the core Oracle system

Your responsibilities will include but are not restricted to the following:

• Lead the delivery of quality software which is easy to maintain and clean to operate.
• Provide technical support on a specific application.
• Provide SME input into systems integrations and architecture.
• Identify and support the resolution of infrastructure faults.
• Have ownership of technical documents and processes.

Person specification

See selection process for further details.

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Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Technical Breadth

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 57,946, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 16,786 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Generous annual leave at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
• Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
• Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and…