At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development and support of critical public sector pension systems using Oracle applications.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to enhancing vital pension services.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, car allowance, private medical, and generous annual leave.
- Other info: Hybrid working model with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact while shaping engineering best practices in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Strong Oracle Applications experience and hands-on Azure DevOps skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Lead the Engineering Behind Critical Public Sector Pension Systems.
Are you an experienced Software Engineer with strong Oracle Applications expertise and a passion for building resilient, business‑critical systems?
We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to play a key role in the delivery and ongoing support of the Pensions Compensation Programme (DBS).
You'll lead the development, support, and enhancement of the Equiniti application suite, ensuring stability, performance, and continuous improvement across a complex, high‑availability environment.
This is an opportunity to combine hands‑on technical leadership with modern Dev Ops practices while making a real impact on systems that support vital pension and compensation services.
You'll be joining a team responsible for delivering and supporting mission‑critical applications within a secure and technically challenging environment.
You'll have the opportunity to shape engineering best practice, drive automation, and influence the future direction of key services while working with modern tooling and technologies.
Hybrid: Gosport.
Must be eligible for DV Security Clearance.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading the development, support and maintenance of Oracle-based business applications.
- Driving production support, incident resolution and root cause analysis.
- Managing application releases, deployments and change activities.
- Designing and maintaining Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines (YAML and Classic).
- Automating build, test and deployment processes.
- Supporting application patching, upgrades and environment management.
- Working with complex datasets to deliver reporting, analysis and data fixes.
- Enhancing monitoring, logging and automation capabilities.
- Ensuring system stability, availability and performance across multiple environments.
- Providing 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.
- It would be great if you had
- 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 & Benefits
- Employment
Type: Permanent.
- Security
- Clearance
Level: Eligible for SC and DV Clearance.
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, and pension.
Equal Opportunity & Accessibility
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation.
We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application.
We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role.
If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
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