Senior Application Engineer (Permanent) in Somerset, Yeovil

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Your Impact

Are you ready to support and enhance enterprise applications that underpin national security and critical services? At Leonardo UK, our Senior Application Engineers play a key role in maintaining and improving business-critical platforms — ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned with operational needs. Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers.

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Application Engineer to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division team. This role is focused on delivering, maintaining, and improving platform and systems engineering solutions that underpin critical defence, government and public sector services.

What you will do as a Senior Application Engineer:

• Support, configure, and enhance enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Dynamics, or other business-critical platforms.
• Ensure compliance with engineering governance, ITSM processes, and cyber security policies.

What you'll bring:

• Solid experience in supporting, configuring, and enhancing enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Dynamics, or similar platforms.
• Core areas (must have):
• Support, configuration, and enhancement of Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS)
• Management of document and records lifecycle (ingestion, classification, retention, disposal)
• Configuration of document-driven workflows and case management processes
• Integration of EDRMS platforms with enterprise systems (identity, line-of-business applications, data sources)
• Application lifecycle management (deployment, maintenance, upgrades, decommissioning)
• Integration patterns and identity management (e.g. SSO, RBAC, API integration)
• Secure-by-design principles and application security practices
• Technical problem solving and resolution of application-related issues
• Collaboration with engineering, service management, and business teams
• Experience supporting systems aligned to information governance and compliance requirements
• Delivery within enterprise / secure / defence environments
• Desirable:
• Experience with EDRMS platforms (e.g. Hyland OnBase or similar)
• Knowledge of records management standards (retention policies, audit, compliance)
• Integration with enterprise systems (e.g. SAP, CRM, finance platforms)
• Automation of document ingestion and classification (OCR, metadata tagging)
• Reporting and audit capabilities within document management systems
• Experience integrating with enterprise services (Active Directory, identity platforms)
• Exposure to DevOps / CI-CD practices
• Experience working in secure or regulated environments

Security Clearance: This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).

We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work–life balance:

• Award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks.
• Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Spend up to 500 annually on flexible benefits such as private healthcare, lifestyle discounts, and gym memberships.
• Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options.

For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.

Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace.

Employment type: Full time