JOB DESCRIPTION

You will join a team in DBS Digital, Information and Technology responsible for translating Civilian HR business needs into digital solutions. Working closely with business analysts, cloud architects, cloud engineers, software developers and the wider Civilian People Change Delivery Services, your focus will be to support recommendations and solution designs to modernise legacy applications and meet new business needs through cloud technology, exploiting the Oracle Software-as-a-Service HR, Payroll and Expenses system MyHR where possible. There will also be a dotted line to the business analysis capability, providing support to requirements analysis, process modelling and testing where required.
You will carry out the duties of a Technical Architect as defined by the Government Digital and Data framework, with an emphasis on business engagement. At Higher Executive Officer level, you are expected to support the identification and realisation of opportunities to create business value, escalating risks and issues as appropriate.
This is an opportunity to work with modern and powerful technologies such as Oracle Fusion SaaS (MyHR/CSM), the low-code Oracle development tools Visual Builder and APEX, the cloud-hosting platform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to exchange real-time information between applications. You will also join the team as it begins its journey to utilise AI capabilities within technical solutions.

STRONG WRITTEN AND ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

• Proactive and confident in engagement with business stakeholders, customers and technical colleagues
• Able to articulate complex information in writing
• Willingness to increase understanding and bridge gaps in knowledge by asking questions
• Able to maintain focus on removing blockers and establishing next steps

EXPERIENCE:

• Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and previous skills and experience.
• Personal Statement. In no more than 500 words.
  Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the job description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlines in the job advert.
  At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE

• Provide technical input to projects and change requests, ensuring solutions are technically feasible, user-friendly and align with business processes and policy, engaging with business and technical stakeholders where appropriate
• Bridge the gap between technical and non-technical, detailing technical concepts in straightforward terms and emphasising business benefit and impact on business processes
• Create As Is and To Be system designs, identifying gaps in capability and progressing solutions
• Identify, analyse, challenge and validate business and user requirements, and co-ordinate and review their prioritisation
• Model As-Is and To-Be business processes, roles and responsibilities – using swim-lane diagrams, user interaction diagrams etc. – and highlight potential impact of changes
• Identify opportunities for technology transformation to provide business benefit, including innovation or automation, and through participation in proof of concepts (POCs) of new and enhanced solutions
• Ensure security policies and procedures are adhered to during the design and development of applications and systems