Lead Technical Application Specialist

JOB TITLE: Lead Technical Application SpecialistSALARY: £90,440 - £106,400 per annumLOCATION: BristolHOURS: Full-time - 35 hoursWORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.About this opportunity…Exciting opportunity for a Lead Technical Application Specialist to join our Strategic Ledger Reconciliation and Controls Team, where you'll be responsible for one of three feature teams; Oracle Reporting, Oracle General Ledger & Accounting Hub, Oracle Cost Ledgers.This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys building individuals and teams, whilst striving to improve capability and efficiency to shape and drive performance improvements. You will play a key part in the managing and maintaining technology as well as supporting with functional and engineering process improvements. Utilising your Oracle expertise, you'll maximise the product functionality whilst providing engineering support for the integration with other software components, across a Finance technology landscape.About us…We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.What you'll do…Accelerate the technology estate change lifecycleDrive DevOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)Implement Integrated Test AutomationLeverage Cloud computing capabilitiesChampion Agile ways of workingApply expertise in Oracle ERP/EPM applications to lead and drive transformative change through route-to-live environmentsBuild a high-performing team that enables the Finance Platform to deliver change at pace without compromising control or qualityWhat you'll need…5 years + in Application Specialist with experience in exploiting functionality in Oracle Cloud products (OFSAA, ERP, EDMCS, ARCS, Task Manager, OIC, OAC, OTBI & FDI) and integration with other software such as GCP Solid understanding of Cloud hosting and awareness of integration, connectivity, authentication, SSO Web-services and API technologies.Strong understanding of engineering and security protocols/standards.Software Engineering background beneficial but not essential. Experience of SQL, BASH, LINUX highly beneficialUnderstanding of Branching Strategies, tooling such GIT, Jenkins, Harness, GitHub Actions.Enable Business Success - Facilitate workshops, manage Route to Live testing, including test automation, provide robust post-go-live support and handover to BAU.Innovate Continuously - Stay ahead of the Oracle quarterly updates, understand new patch features and leverage the latest capabilities.Great interpersonal skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people.If you have any prior experience working within a finance function this would be desirable. Knowledge of SOX and associated controls highly beneficial.About working for us…Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes…A generous pension contribution of up to 15%An annual bonus award, subject to Group performanceShare schemes including free sharesBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on topA range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policiesWant to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey