At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development and support of Oracle-based pension systems in a high-availability environment.
- Company: Join Sopra Steria, a leader in digital solutions for government clients.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, car allowance, private medical, and generous annual leave.
- Other info: Hybrid work model with excellent career growth and mentorship opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on critical public sector applications while enhancing your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Strong Oracle Applications experience and hands-on Azure DevOps CI/CD skills required.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 65000 £ per year.
Overview
Lead the engineering behind critical public sector pension systems.
The role focuses on delivering and supporting the Pensions Compensation Programme (DBS) with Oracle Applications expertise in a high-availability environment.
This position combines hands-on technical leadership with modern Dev Ops practices to improve stability, performance, and delivery of mission-critical applications within a secure setting.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, support and maintenance of Oracle-based business applications.
- Drive production support, incident resolution and root cause analysis.
- Manage application releases, deployments and change activities.
- Design and maintain Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines (YAML and Classic).
- Automate build, test and deployment processes.
- Support application patching, upgrades and environment management.
- Work with complex datasets to deliver reporting, analysis and data fixes.
- Enhance monitoring, logging and automation capabilities.
- Ensure system stability, availability and performance across multiple environments.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring within the engineering team.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong Oracle Applications experience.
- Extensive knowledge of RDBMS and SQL for data analysis and reporting.
- Proven experience supporting and maintaining production applications.
- Hands-on Azure Dev Ops CI/CD experience (YAML and Classic pipelines).
- Experience with release management, deployments and application patching.
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Power Shell and T-SQL).
- Knowledge of Dev Ops practices, SDLC and version control.
- Experience working in high-availability, business-critical environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Nice to Have
- Knowledge of WPS Pensions and Compensation systems.
- Experience with Service Now, Dimensions and DIP File Share.
- Familiarity with Compendia, Touch and Compose.
- Understanding of Privileged Access Management (PAM) and security controls.
- Existing DV or SC clearance.
- Employment Details
- Employment Type: Permanent.
- Location: Hybrid — Gosport.
- Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC and DV Clearance.
- Salary: Up to £65,000 per year.
Benefits
- £5,400 car allowance
- 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days
- Private medical
- Life assurance
- Pension
- About
- Sopra
Steria: Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients.
We focus on delivering high-impact solutions in safety- and security-critical environments and support professional development, mentorship, and knowledge sharing among colleagues.
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