PeopleSoft Engineer in Manchester

Are you a high-performing PeopleSoft Administrator ready to take ownership of complex enterprise environments and play a key role in driving stability, performance, and innovation? Join a collaborative team where you’ll partner with technical experts and business leaders, gaining exposure to a fast-evolving industry that is continuously embracing transformation and modernisation. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact—supporting critical systems, influencing architecture decisions, and ensuring seamless delivery across environments.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and optimise PeopleSoft environments; maintain and support application and server infrastructure, proactively troubleshooting and resolving issues to ensure high availability.
• Drive upgrades and continuous improvement; lead PUM upgrades and quarterly patching, ensuring systems remain secure, stable, and future-ready.
• Enable seamless releases; collaborate closely with development and functional teams to migrate approved code into production efficiently and safely.
• Ensure environment readiness; plan and manage system availability, support environment refreshes, and execute post-refresh activities for non-production systems.
• Monitor and enhance performance; oversee production batch schedules, identify bottlenecks, and resolve performance issues across PeopleSoft processes and reports.
• Deliver strong database administration; manage Oracle database installations, patching, backup & recovery, cloning, and performance tuning across environments.
• Strengthen resilience & continuity; design and implement robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies to protect business-critical systems.
• Provide expert DBA consultancy; offer technical expertise across Oracle and SQL Server environments, supporting broader infrastructure initiatives.
• Communicate with clarity and impact; provide structured updates and insights to stakeholders, ensuring alignment across technical and business teams.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong expertise in PeopleSoft Administration and architecture.
• Proven experience managing complex enterprise environments.
• Solid hands‑on experience with Oracle databases (and SQL Server exposure).
• Strong problem‑solving mindset with a focus on performance and stability.
• Excellent collaboration skills across technical and functional teams.
• A proactive, ownership‑driven approach with strong communication skills.

Working Pattern

• Primarily aligned to UK business hours, with flexibility to support EST shifts when required.
• Collaborative, team‑driven environment with cross‑functional exposure.

Qualifications

Core Technical Expertise

• Strong experience in Application Administration and PeopleTools.
• Hands‑on expertise across PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA), including App Servers, Process Schedulers, WebLogic Servers (Linux & Windows).
• Advanced knowledge of PeopleTools 8.54+ and Integration Broker.
• Proven experience working with PeopleSoft 9.x (or above) environments.
• Strong database administration skills across Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Deep understanding of PeopleSoft architecture, infrastructure, and administration best practices.

Experience & Capability

• 5–7 years’ experience in PeopleSoft Administration / Infrastructure roles.
• Strong track record of owning issues end-to-end and delivering timely resolutions.
• Comfortable working in high‑pressure, production‑critical environments.
• Experience with cloud‑based infrastructure / server environments is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Quarterly performance‑related profit share.
• Hybrid / Remote working flexibility.
• Pension, private healthcare, life assurance cover.
• Certified Great Place to Work for 10+ years running.

We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging statement on the Careers site.