Senior Application Operation Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:

• 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 collaborating with stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams to review requirements and use agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct, and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity.
• Ability to coordinate build activities and support testing activities, including functional, integration, and performance testing.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to quickly identify patterns across large volumes of data, perform root cause analysis of high-priority incidents or issues, and propose appropriate resolutions.
• 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.

Responsibilities:

• Support and enhance the Central Payments System, a highly customised Oracle E-Business Suite application that helps deliver payments and accounting for UK benefit services.
• Develop new functionality and maintain complex customisations and integrations.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and support live services.
• Work closely with architects and engineers to improve service performance and resilience.
• Help keep a business-critical platform running smoothly for millions of people.
• Coordinate build activities and support testing activities, including functional, integration, and performance testing.

Technologies:

• Support
• Oracle
• SQL
• Web
• XML

More:

We are DWP Digital, the UKs largest government department, and we help people into work and make payments worth around £280bn a year to support millions of daily users. Our digital teams use fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to create innovative, scalable, user-centric digital solutions that positively change how government works. We design, build, and run digital public services to make them simpler and faster for everyone. This role is within our Central Payment System team, and you will join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, or Sheffield. We offer hybrid working, flexible hours, a competitive salary of up to £68,205, a civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, generous leave, professional development opportunities, and a broad benefits package focused on work-life balance. We are recognised for our award-winning environment, culture, diversity, and inclusion.

last updated 35 week of 2026