Oracle Cloud Integrations Developer - Scottish Government - SEO

Location

Edinburgh, Scotland, EH11 3XD

About the job

Job summary

Do you want to help shape the future of digital integration in Scotland’s public sector?  

The Digital Operations team within iTECS plays a vital role in supporting and maintaining a growing range of digital platforms and services across the Scottish Government. As part of this, we are leading the migration of HR and Finance systems to the Oracle Cloud/Fusion platform, ensuring they are reliable, efficient, and future-ready.  

Scottish Government have a new role suited to a DevOps engineer experienced with Oracle Cloud, integration, architecture and middleware. Reporting to and supporting the Integrations Lead, you will be responsible for the management, implementation, configuration, and monitoring of integrations across a range of platforms, including Oracle Cloud and other key digital systems. You’ll ensure integrations are properly configured, tested, provisioned, documented, decommissioned, and maintained in line with Scottish Government standards and policies.  

Working as part of a new integrations team, you will support both existing and new system integrations while contributing to the strategy for future support operating models—helping to establish best-in-class integration management capability. With your digital integration skills, you will develop deep expertise in Oracle Cloud and gain a full understanding of the end-to-end architecture, integrations, and associated challenges. You’ll collaborate closely with the DG Corporate Hub, iTECS service teams, system owners, and third-party suppliers while also expanding your skills across other IT platforms. 

Job description

• Support and development of Scottish Government iTECS managed digital applications integrations architecture, including Oracle Cloud (OIC).   
• Support the strategic management, delivery and maintenance of integrations managed by the SG as defined in the integrations catalogue, coordinating and advising on best practice as necessary.   
• Review existing build pipelines, and make recommendations to improve code reuse, increase performance, tighten security, and optimise deployment performance.   
• Support and agree strategies and technology that ensures the seamless integration of data.   
• Support the provision of technical support and resolution for all digital integration incidents, problems and changes.   
• Work closely with the Technical Delivery Manager and other specialists such as developers, engineers and programmers to ensure successful integration outcomes.   
• Represent iTECS on various fora and boards as necessary. 

Person specification

Success Profile 

Success profiles are specific to each job, and they include the mix of experience, skills and behaviours candidates will be assessed on. 

Experience:  

1. Lead Criteria 1: Technical knowledge of Oracle HCM & ERP integration components, Oracle middleware and end-to-end architecture.
2. Lead Criteria 2: Knowledge of Oracle middleware components – such as SOA Cloud Service, Java Cloud Service (JCS), Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Managed File Transfer (MFT).
3. Prior experience and technical knowledge of IT application integrations development and management across different technology stacks at an enterprise scale.
4. Understanding of integration transformation and impacting technical change and estimation. 

Experience is assessed at sift, along with a more in-depth assessment at interview. 

Technical Skills: 

This role is aligned to the Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer role within the Software Engineering/Development. 

You can find out more about the skills required, here:Development operations (DevOps) engineer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

These skills are assessed by technical assessment, designed to represent the role. Candidates reaching this stage will receive a Technical Assessment Candidate Pack which outlines the specific skills to be assessed, plus the method of assessment.