Senior Application Operation Engineer

Senior Application Operations Engineer

Pay up to £68,205 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and a truly great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our community of experts at DWP Digital as a Senior Application Operations Engineer within our Central Payment System team.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth around £280bn a year, to support millions of daily users.

Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to create innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions, positively changing how government work.

We design, build, and run digital public services, making them simpler and faster for everyone.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• 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.
• Extensive experience of collaborating with stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams to review requirements and uses 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 understands 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 and scalable enterprise applications.

You and your role

You'll be an Oracle Application Engineer supporting and enhancing the Central Payments System, a highly customised Oracle E-Business Suite application that helps deliver payments and accounting for UK benefit services.

In this role, you'll develop new functionality, maintain complex customisations and integrations, troubleshoot technical issues, and work closely with architects and engineers to improve service performance and resilience. Whether you're supporting live services, solving challenging problems or delivering high-quality solutions, you'll play a key part in keeping a business-critical platform running smoothly for millions of people.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £68,205.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

Process:

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.