Defence Business Services (DBS) Analytics Application Lead - MoD - G7
Government Digital & Data -
This role will be based in Bristol but will require occasional travel to other locations across the UK. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) supports hybrid working with regular attendance expected in the office. There is currently an expectation that staff will attend the office at least 60% of their time on average. Requests for flexible working arrangements and job share are welcome.
About the job
Job summary
Are you ready to shape how the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is designed and is operated, directly enabling the defence of the UK? The MOD is seeking an exceptional and experienced professional for one of MOD’s top strategic priorities; Corporate Services Modernisation.
Corporate Services are critically important for the 250,000 people working across Defence to do their day-to-day jobs. For example, every time the department procures military equipment, personnel receive their monthly pay or request their vacation, they are using Corporate Services. As part of the wider government Shared Services Strategy, MOD has established the Corporate Services Modernisation (CSM) portfolio to drive Human Resources, Commercial and Finance policy, process, organisational, data and systems transformation. (More information on the Shared Services agenda can be found through this link: A Shared Services Strategy for Government - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)).
Our ambition is to revolutionise MOD corporate services to:
- Improve the user experience by simplifying our policies and processes, ; providing easier and better interfaces to systems and self-service and; making services more responsive and providing easy access to help.
- Deliver better data driven decision making by introducing and fully exploiting the latest Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Human Capital Management (HCM) technology; improving visibility, accuracy and accessibility of management information across defence; and, using integrated data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to inform decision making.
- Improve Productivity and Efficiency by automating transactional processes ; expanding and improving MOD’s shared service centre operations; and, reducing MOD’s overall corporate services spend to maximise our reinvestment into the front-line.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
The Ministry of Defence is moving its core Finance, Commercial and HR systems to a Software as a Service (SAAS) Oracle Fusion platform with the Analytics Platform still to be competed commercially. CSM is looking for an experienced software developer to support the selection of tooling, plan the implementation, lead in the design and development of the solution and provide support and change through-life. This role will support the following programmes:
• Finance and Commercial
• Civilian HR and Payroll
• Military HR and Payroll
Person specification
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a strong development background, ideally in an Analytics Platform, and a good working knowledge of the business processes these technologies support. They will be expected to be a Certified Professional (Implementer/Consultant/Architect) or undertake to obtain certification when in post.
An understanding of MOD’s Corporate Service (HR, Finance, Commercial) processes, structures and systems or Corporate Service arrangements of similar complexity in the wider public or private sectors would be advantageous.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Modern standards approach - Expert
- Programming and build (software engineering) - Expert
- Systems design - Practitioner
- Systems integration - Practitioner
