Software Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

Job Title: Senior Oracle Application Engineer

Pay up to £57,946 - £68,205 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work‑life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

Are you ready to help shape the biggest transformation of the welfare system in over 60 years?

We have an important role to fill in our Digital Payment Services team.

DWP is redefining how we deliver services through an ambitious programme of end‑to‑end digital transformation.

We're placing our 22 million customers at the heart of everything we do, using modern digital tools and approaches to create simpler, faster and more accessible experiences. Our mission is to support the transformation of the welfare state improving services, reducing costs and delivering the best value for money.

Payments are fundamental to DWP. As the largest payer in the UK, we support 22 million citizens and process around £280bn in payments every year, generating a third of all UK BACS transactions. We ensure people receive the right money, at the right time, in the way that best meets their needs.

We're looking for a skilled and driven Application Engineer to help build digital capability, lead complex product delivery, and enable successful outcomes within the Central Payment System (CPS) Application Development Work Programme.

Your work will underpin critical digital initiatives across the organisation and support the creation of modern, innovative services that reshape and improve the way we make payments.

• 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.
• You have collaborated with stakeholders and multi‑disciplinary teams to review requirements and use 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 understand 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, scalable enterprise applications.

Experience in any of the following areas would also be helpful. Apply anyway though - we're not assessing these and you'll have chance to grow your skills in these areas on the job.

• Configuration Management
• Java
• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Oracle Advanced Queues (Streams)

In this role, you'll work on the Central Payments System – a highly customised Oracle EBusiness Suite application underpinning payments and accounting for the Department's Benefits systems.

You'll be responsible for maintaining, supporting, and enhancing complex customisations and integrations with the core Oracle platform. You'll be our trusted Oracle E‑business expert, giving technical support, resolving issues and supporting system integrations and architectural decisions.

You will be a skilled practitioner and a role model within our Application Operations community. You'll champion best practice across the department, guiding teams to deliver high‑quality, reliable applications.

You’ll own the delivery, quality and performance of applications and software solutions. You'll work closely with Architecture and Engineering teams as we design stable, resilient, robust, and operationally sound Application services.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Birmingham, 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 from £57,946 - £68,205.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £19,759 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.

Our broad benefits package built around your work‑life balance also 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
• Sports and social activities
• 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 WomenInTech Employer Awards

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

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