HM Revenue & Customs
Application Operations Engineer
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Job Summary
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HMRC is transforming the UK’s tax system through cutting-edge digital innovation and the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) Group is at the heart of that mission.
The Multi-Channel-Digital-Tax-Platform (MDTP) within CDIO supports HMRC in delivering digital services to the tax player and enables HMRC’s wider digital strategy and policies. We support the service teams who design, manage and maintain HMRC’s core digital services.
Job Description
Application Operations Engineers play a key role in ensuring our user management systems run smoothly and efficiently on MDTP. This position is a non-technical first line support role. You’ll join a small team responsible for managing and monitoring user management services, driving proactive service support, and maintaining operational excellence.
First line support is responsible for the effective onboarding, offboarding and movement of users within MDTP. Ensuring users have access to the applications required to build digital services. You’ll have a strong understanding of the access controls across the team's applications, and ensure users maintain the appropriate levels of access. You’ll be responsible for monitoring the user management services, identifying and resolving user management issues where possible and appropriately escalating technical problems to support engineers and the Product Owner.
You’ll also contribute to continuous improvement of MDTP’s user management services by maintaining user guides, updating troubleshooting documentation, collecting user feedback, and identifying trends in recurring issues. You’ll work collaboratively within a mixed-discipline team, contributing to planning and service design sessions, using your user management insight to highlight dependencies and support user-centred service development.
Further Information
Support hours are within the standard working day, Monday-Friday from 9am-5.30pm.
Person specification
Key Responsibilities
Service Management
- Provide front line support to a wide range of technical and non-technical colleagues for access to platform applications.
- Support users in ensuring they have the required access levels on applications.
- Designing & maintaining troubleshooting documentation.
- Create runbooks for first line support tasks.
- Collect feedback from users, and use this to improve the MDTP services.
Problem Management
- Respond to user problems, ensure users are sign-posted correctly or problems are escalated to the relevant business area.
- Use application knowledge to help form solutions to user problems.
- Recognise and flag technical issues escalating to technical leads and contribute to solutions where possible.
Agile teamwork
- Participate in team stand-ups, planning sessions and retrospectives.
- Communicate application knowledge to business colleagues and other stakeholders.
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Essential Criteria
- Proven experience in a technical support or service desk role, providing first line support to a broad range of users.
- Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, escalating appropriately where required.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience of maintaining accurate documentation and contributing to knowledge sharing processes.
- Understanding of IT service management principles and incident management processes.
- Escalation and problem management.
- Experience in investigating problems in systems, processes and services.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
Salary
Alongside your salary of £37,682, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £10,916 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history and key achievements from your career which reflects the requirements of the role outlined above. Provide specific instances from your career detailing successes where you can. Last 3 roles no more than 200 words per role.
- A 750-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience from your career reflect the essential criteria of the role. Providing a specific example from your career for each criterion.
Sift
In the event of a high number of applications, we may carry out an initial sift assessing CV only.
At full sift, your CV and Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
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We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
The interview will be 45 minutes in duration and will be held by a 3-person panel. During the panel interview, you will be assessed against your behaviours and technical skills and one experience question. You will be asked questions to assess your suitability against the role, questions will be reflective of the key responsibilities of the role and essential criteria.
Behaviours
Behaviour 1: Managing a Quality Service
Behaviour 2: Working Together
When answering you will be required to provide a specific instance from your career which demonstrates the technical skill, experience or behaviour in question. You would be advised to prepare specific examples from your career in advance.
You will be advised to apply the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) technique when delivering examples. You would be encouraged to prepare demonstrable examples of your experience ahead of the interview to ensure meaningfulness and completeness.
Interviews will take place via video link.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Please note that circumstances may arise that require the planned interview format to change. We will endeavour to provide you with as much notice of any change as possible.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’.
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Exceptionally, candidates who are not successful at this grade may be considered for appointment to similar roles at a lower grade where the eligibility criteria are met. If this applies, we will contact you directly.
Sponsorship
We have assessed this role against both Home Office and HMRC criteria and we are unable to offer sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa. This means the vacancy is not open to applicants who require visa sponsorship.
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