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. Ready to make your application Please do read through the description at least once before clicking on Apply.

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. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you. 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. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards 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. xwwtmva CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.