Defence Business Services

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 368776**Salary**:

- £35,290- per annum (pro rata)- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Head Office & Corporate Services - Defence Business Services (DBS) - DBS- Digital, Information & Technology (DIT)**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Norcross - Tomlinson House, Blackpool, Lancashire / Kentigern House - GlasgowAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference?

Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence?
- Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services, to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.
- Our Vision - To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.
- Our Mission - Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability.

**DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society.**

**We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working.**

**Come and join the DBS community today**

**Job description**:
DBS has migrated their HR system to a Cloud based Oracle HCM platform.
- Oversight for integration support resources
- Design high-level interface architecture based on business requirements with solution architect
- Act as owner of all assigned integration deliverables
- Collaborate with other architects and technical leads on design decisions and direction
- Document Interface architecture and plans for implementation with customer/vendors
- Provide interface and related workflow solutions within the guidelines of the interface team’s custom request procedures
- Provide technical assistance to other departments in relation to interface development and installation
- Provide 2/3 level interface support (where required)
- Reviews release notes and works with integration team and Release Manager to assess impacts and coordinate integration testing
- Key decision maker around integrations strategy, including introduction of new integrations
- Make relevant integration migration changes

Other responsibilities:

- Provide expert level knowledge of Oracle integration framework
- Represent the team in programs/projects to provide improved or new functionality
- Work on multiple enhancements/projects and other duties as assigned
- Log/maintain tickets in ticket tracking system
- Coordination of identity management with infrastructure support
- Works with infrastructure for PaaS defects
- Oversight of ad hoc data loading requests with Integration Support
- Understand security and data privacy standards

**Person specification**:
Essential Skills:

- Proven ability to communicate - both written and verbal
- The ability to work as part of a small agile team, and across multiple teams
- Highly motivated and resilient
- Access or a driven desire to learn

Desirable Skills:

- Oracle HCM Knowledge
- Oracle Support process knowledge
- Integration - inbound and outbound
- HCM Extract
- BI Publisher (BIP)
- HCM Data Loader (HDL)
- Fast Formula
- HCM Spreadsheet Loader (HSDL/ADFDI)
- Alert Composer
- Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
- File Based Data Import (FBDI)
- SOAP/REST Web Services
- SQL/PLSQL
- Oracle HCM Cloud Table Structures
- Security
- OTBI
- Application Support Service Delivery (Service Management)
- Solution design and requirements gathering
- Functional Design
- Unit Testing Knowledge
- REMEDY and ticket management expertise
- Release Management

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Managing a Quality Service
- Developing Self and Others

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of