Senior Oracle Application Engineer

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Senior Oracle Application Engineer

Pay up to £57,946 – £68,205 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work‑life balance.

Are you ready to help shape the biggest transformation of the welfare system in over 60 years?

We have an important role to fill in our Digital Payment Services team.

DWP is redefining how we deliver services through an ambitious programme of end‑to‑end digital transformation. We’re placing our 22 million customers at the heart of everything we do, using modern digital tools and approaches to create simpler, faster and more accessible experiences. Our mission is to support the transformation of the welfare state, improving services, reducing costs and delivering the best value for money.

Payments are fundamental to DWP. As the largest payer in the UK, we support 22 million citizens and process around £280 bn in payments every year, generating a third of all UK BACS transactions. We ensure people receive the right money, at the right time, in the way that best meets their needs.

We’re looking for a skilled and driven Application Engineer to help build digital capability, lead complex product delivery, and enable successful outcomes within the Central Payment System (CPS) Application Development Work Programme.

Your work will underpin critical digital initiatives across the organisation and support the creation of modern, innovative services that reshape and improve the way we make payments.

• Demonstrable experience as an Oracle Developer with in‑depth knowledge of E Business Suite Financial modules, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Payments, Sub Ledger Accounting and Cash Management.
• Collaborated with stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams to review requirements and use these, along with agreed standards and tools, to design, code, test, correct and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity.
• Able to co‑ordinate build activities and understand how to support testing activities, including functional, integration and performance.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills; able to quickly identify patterns across huge volumes of data to identify root cause analysis of high‑priority incidents/issues and propose appropriate resolution.
• Extensive experience delivering robust Oracle E Business Suite solutions, including SQL/PLSQL development, OAF personalisation and extensions, Oracle Reports/XML Publisher, APIs, interfaces, web service integrations, workflow configuration and performance tuning to support secure, scalable enterprise applications.

• Configuration Management
• Java
• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Oracle Advanced Queues (Streams)

In this role, you’ll work on the Central Payments System – a highly customised Oracle EBusiness Suite application underpinning payments and accounting for the Department’s Benefits systems.

You’ll be responsible for maintaining, supporting and enhancing complex customisations and integrations with the core Oracle platform. You’ll be our trusted Oracle E‑business expert, providing technical support, resolving issues and supporting system integrations and architectural decisions.

You will be a skilled practitioner and a role model within our Application Operations community. You’ll champion best practice across the department, guiding teams to deliver high‑quality, reliable applications.

You’ll own the delivery, quality and performance of applications and software solutions. You’ll work closely with Architecture and Engineering teams as we design stable, resilient, robust and operationally sound application services.

Location: You’ll join us in one of our digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield – whichever is most convenient.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model – you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face‑to‑face at a hub.

Pay: Competitive pay from £57,946 – £68,205.

Pension: A civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, up to £19,759 per year.

Holidays: Generous leave package starting at 26 days,…