Senior Application Operation Engineer

DWP Digital; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Pension contributions 28.97%

Career development

Job summary

DWP Digital invites applications for a Senior Application Operations Engineer within the Central Payment System team. You will join a high‑impact government IT function delivering payments and accounting via a customised Oracle E‑Business Suite application.

Hybrid working is offered with a competitive pay package up to £68,205 plus substantial employer pension contributions. You’ll engage with stakeholders to design, implement, and optimise enterprise‑scale financial solutions within a

Qualifications

• 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 design, code, test, and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity.
• Able to co‑ordinate build activities and support testing activities, including functional, integration and performance.
• Excellent problem solving skills with ability to identify patterns across large data sets to determine root causes of incidents and implement fixes.
• Extensive experience delivering robust Oracle E‑Business Suite solutions, including SQL/PLSQL development, OAF personalisation, APIs, interfaces, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance the Central Payments System, a highly customised Oracle E‑Business Suite application for payments and accounting.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure requirements are implemented to standards and tested.
• Coordinate build activities and assist testing across functional, integration and performance domains.

Skills

Oracle Developer

EBS (Oracle E-Business Suite)

SQL/PLSQL

Stakeholder collaboration

Performance tuning

Build coordination

Tools

Oracle Reports/XML Publisher

APIs

Web services

Job description

Pay up to £68,205 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and a truly great work life balance.

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.

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