PeopleSoft Engineer

Job Description

Are you a high-performing People Soft Administrator ready to take ownership of complex enterprise environments and play a key role in driving stability, performance, and innovation? Join a collaborative team where you’ll partner with technical experts and business leaders, gaining exposure to a fast-evolving industry that continuously embraces transformation and modernisation. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact—supporting critical systems, influencing architecture decisions, and ensuring seamless delivery across environments.

• Own and optimise People Soft environments:
  Maintain and support application and server infrastructure, proactively troubleshooting and resolving issues to ensure high availability.
• Drive upgrades and continuous improvement:
  Lead PUM upgrades and quarterly patching, ensuring systems remain secure, stable, and future‑ready.
• Enable seamless releases:
  Collaborate closely with development and functional teams to migrate approved code into production efficiently and safely.
• Ensure environment readiness:
  Plan and manage system availability, support environment refreshes, and execute post‑refresh activities for non‑production systems.
• Monitor and enhance performance:
  Oversee production batch schedules, identify bottlenecks, and resolve performance issues across People Soft processes and reports.
• Deliver strong database administration:
  Manage Oracle database installations, patching, backup & recovery, cloning, and performance tuning across environments.
• Strengthen resilience & continuity:
  Design and implement robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies to protect business‑critical systems.
• Provide expert DBA consultancy:
  Offer technical expertise across Oracle and SQL Server environments, supporting broader infrastructure initiatives.
• Communicate with clarity and impact:
  Provide structured updates and insights to stakeholders, ensuring alignment across technical and business teams.

• Strong expertise in People Soft Administration and architecture.
• Proven experience managing complex enterprise environments.
• Solid hands‑on experience with Oracle databases (and SQL Server exposure).
• Strong problem‑solving mindset with a focus on performance and stability.
• Excellent collaboration skills across technical and functional teams.
• A proactive, ownership‑driven approach with strong communication skills.

• Primarily aligned to UK business hours, with flexibility to support EST shifts when required.
• Collaborative, team‑driven environment with cross‑functional exposure.

• High Impact – Work on mission‑critical systems that power enterprise operations.
• Technical Depth – Engage with complex People Soft, Oracle, and infrastructure environments.
• Career Growth – Gain exposure to upgrades, architecture, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborative Culture – Work alongside experienced professionals who value knowledge‑sharing and innovation.

• 5–7 years’ experience in People Soft Administration / Infrastructure roles.
• Strong track record of owning issues end‑to‑end and delivering timely resolutions.
• Comfortable working in high‑pressure, production‑critical environments.
• Experience with cloud‑based infrastructure / server environments is highly desirable.

• Strong experience in Application Administration and People Tools.
• Hands‑on expertise across People Soft Internet Architecture (PIA), including:
  • App Servers
  • Process Schedulers
  • Web Logic Servers (Linux & Windows)
• Advanced knowledge of People Tools 8.54+ and Integration Broker.
• Proven experience working with People Soft 9.x (or above) environments.
• Strong database administration skills across:
  • Oracle Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server
• Deep understanding of People Soft architecture, infrastructure, and administration best practices.
• Expertise across all core technical areas of People Soft Administration.

• 5–7 years’ experience in People Soft Administration / Infrastructure roles.
• Strong track record of owning issues end‑to‑end and delivering timely resolutions.
• Comfortable working in high‑pressure, production‑critical environments.
• Experience with cloud‑based infrastructure / server environments is highly desirable.

• Quarterly performance‑related profit share.
• Hybrid / Remote working flexibility.
• Pension, private healthcare, life assurance cover.
• Certified Great Place to Work for 10+ years running.

This is hybrid based with occasional travel to your nearest base office.

We are an equal opportunities employer.