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Role:Senior Application Developer
Salary: £37,400.00 - £42,900.00 GBP Annual
Advert Closing Date: 18/04/2024
Additional allowance: A Digital Allowance of up to £10,000 per annum is available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.
Pension: 28.97% - Alongside your salary, Student Loans Company contributes £10,834 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Security Clearance - Applicants for this role must pass enhanced background checks. Candidates have to have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years.
Is it time you unlocked your potential?
Student Loans Company is a non-profit making Government-owned organisation to provide loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK. Since 1989, we have enabled our customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services.
Job description
We now have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Application Developer to join our team. This role is within the ERP Centre of Excellence which is responsible for the development, maintenance and support of Workday and peripheral systems that supports SLC's business.
The Senior Application Developer will have overall responsibility for all in-house application and integration developments in Workday (Finance, HCM and Commercial). They will lead and participate in the system development life cycle including technical design, development, testing and deployment of Workday functionality and other ERP systems. The Senior Application Developer will provide technical leadership and direction for all application development activities including release analysis and impact assessment, new module development, smaller enhancements, maintenance and improvements of existing configuration. The employee will provide support and cover for the Integration Specialist when required and assist with the mentoring of the ERP graduate(s).
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What you bring
Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, or closely related field
Experience in developing end-to-end finance and / or HCM solutions, including system configuration, integration developments, system and data security.
Experience providing impact analysis and risk assessments for new functionality and enhancements, identifying process improvement opportunities to drive innovation.
Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
Ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and customers at various levels across the organisation and third parties, ensuring a high level of customer service.
Have experience of writing code such as Java and technologies like SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT and Rest API’s that are used in building an integration.
Benefits
You can expect more from a career with SLC. We support colleagues to unlock their potential through our Career Pathways development programme and offer an excellent benefit and rewards package that includes:
28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
Option to buy/sell annual leave
Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available
Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary
Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption
Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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) (opens in a new window)
- 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
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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