Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Senior Oracle Application Engineer
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This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.
Job Summary
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
Are you experienced in coordinating software builds and supporting testing activities to ensure successful delivery?
Do you enjoy collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver reliable, secure and high performing digital solutions?
If so, come and join us at DWP Digital.
The DWP is delivering the most significant transformation of the welfare system in over 60 years through the digitisation of our services. With over 22 million customers, we are placing user needs at the heart of everything we do, using modern technologies and digital approaches to create simpler, faster and more accessible services while delivering value for money for the taxpayer.
Payments are central to DWP's mission. As the UK's largest payment provider, we support around 22 million citizens and deliver approximately £280 billion in payments each year, generating around a third of all UK BACS traffic. Ensuring people receive the right payment, at the right time, is fundamental to the services we provide.
As an Oracle EBS Developer, you will be a technical specialist and role model for application development, driving best practice and supporting the delivery of secure, resilient and high performing applications. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to improve service quality, resolve complex challenges and contribute to the continuous evolution of our technology estate.
This is a unique opportunity to join the Digital Payment Services team within DWP Digital, helping to shape the future of payment services across government. Working on the Central Payment System (CPS) Application Development Work Programme, you will contribute to business critical initiatives, deliver complex technical solutions and support the development of modern digital services that are transforming the payments landscape for millions of people across the UK.
Job Description
You will assist in the design of Application services ensuring alignment with Architecture and Engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for Application solutions.
Specifically, you will be working on the Central Payments System, a customised Oracle e-Business suite application that supports Payments and Accounting for the Departments Benefits systems, you will be required to maintain, support and develop some complex customisations and interfaces to the core Oracle system
Your responsibilities will include but are not restricted to the following:
- Lead the delivery of quality software which is easy to maintain and clean to operate.
- Provide technical support on a specific application.
- Provide SME input into systems integrations and architecture.
- Identify and support the resolution of infrastructure faults.
- Have ownership of technical documents and processes.
You will assist in the design of Application services ensuring alignment with Architecture and Engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for Application solutions.
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Specifically, you will be working on the Central Payments System, a customised Oracle e-Business suite application that supports Payments and Accounting for the Departments Benefits systems, you will be required to maintain, support and develop some complex customisations and interfaces to the core Oracle system
Your responsibilities will include but are not restricted to the following:
- Lead the delivery of quality software which is easy to maintain and clean to operate.
- Provide technical support on a specific application.
- Provide SME input into systems integrations and architecture.
- Identify and support the resolution of infrastructure faults.
- Have ownership of technical documents and processes.
Person specification
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Oliver.canham1@dwp.gov.uk.
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Technical Breadth
Alongside your salary of £57,946, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £16,786 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides here.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
Hybrid Working
This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.
If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.
If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £57,946 to £68,205.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer will maintain their current substantive salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion will move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or receive a 10% increase applied to their current substantive salary, whichever is greater.
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Any temporary allowances that you are currently in receipt of will not form part of the calculation to determine your pay. Any allowances that are in payment will cease when you move into your new role.
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Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance here for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Stage 1: Application
Your Application Will Consist Of Four Parts
- A Personal Details application form.
- Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed.
- Personal statement - up to 1000 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:
- 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.
- Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of Technical Breadth. This statement should be used to provide example(s) of how you meet the criterion below:
- 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.
Ensure that all examples provided in your statements are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. If you choose to use gen-AI to support your statements, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide.
The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, and technical statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge.
An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.
If you do progress to a full sift, you will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your employment history and Personal Statement.
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