About this role
Salary: £41,000 - 81,000 per year
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent experience in IT, business systems, technology, applications management, or a related discipline.
- Experience supporting enterprise application changes, enhancements, upgrades, or configuration activities.
- Experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements.
- Experience supporting application testing, defect management, and acceptance activities.
- Experience working with third-party suppliers and service providers.
- Experience assessing the business process, operational, and technical impacts of change.
- Risk identification and mitigation skills.
- Structured problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
- Ability to constructively challenge assumptions and proposed solutions.
- Strong attention to detail and a focus on quality.
- Ability to balance business needs, risk, compliance, and operational considerations.
- Willingness and ability to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.
Responsibilities
- Provide subject matter expertise and quality assurance for assigned enterprise applications throughout the application lifecycle.
- Ensure application changes are clearly defined, governed, tested, implemented, and transitioned into operational service.
- Work with business stakeholders, technical teams, suppliers, and operational support functions to maintain application fitness for purpose and support continuous improvement.
- Ensure business and functional requirements are accurately captured, validated, traceable, and maintained throughout the change lifecycle.
- Confirm assigned applications continue to meet agreed business, operational, and compliance requirements.
- Assure proposed application changes meet documented requirements, quality standards, and acceptance criteria before release.
- Assess and safeguard the impact of application changes on data quality, master data, business reporting, and downstream processes.
- Ensure application changes are documented, tested, supportable, and successfully transitioned into operational service.
- Validate supplier deliverables against agreed requirements, security standards, operational acceptance criteria, and quality expectations.
- Ensure application changes align with enterprise architecture, cyber security, risk management, governance, and regulatory requirements.
- Support the achievement of agreed business outcomes and intended operational benefits from application changes.
- Monitor application lifecycle risks, technical debt, upgrade requirements, and vendor roadmaps.
- Identify, assess, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies that may affect application service quality or change delivery.
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We are recruiting an Applications Specialist reporting to our Domain Lead (Applications). The role is based at RG7 4PR, between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking. The starting salary is £50,060 per year, depending on suitability, qualifications, and experience. We operate a nine-day working fortnight and will consider flexible working requests. Our benefits include every other Friday off and 270 hours of annual leave; a contributory pension, with employer contributions of 9% to 13% of pensionable pay depending on your contributions; family-friendly policies, including 39 weeks of full-pay maternity leave and four weeks of full-pay paternity leave; professional development opportunities, including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body; an Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services; life assurance of four times annual salary; discounts on everyday spending; and special leave for volunteering, public service, and caring.
last updated 46 week of 2026