About this role
Salary: £57,400 - 57,400 per year
Requirements
- Experience developing and supporting business-critical applications in a live environment, including delivering technical changes and enhancements.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience investigating and resolving complex technical issues.
- Experience working with relational databases to interrogate, maintain and analyse data.
- Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
- Experience mentoring colleagues, sharing technical knowledge and contributing to service improvements.
- Experience with one or more of the following, or similar technologies, is desirable: on-premise, non-cloud systems; CA Gen or other model-driven/4GL development tools; PL/SQL; C or Pro*C; Unix shell scripting or other scripting; AIX or another Unix/Linux environment; Oracle databases; Java and application or web servers such as Oracle WebLogic; Crystal Reports or other reporting tools; client/server applications, batch-processing systems and legacy integrations.
- The role requires SC clearance, which requires at least five years of continuous UK residency.
- We do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration Skilled Worker Sponsor Licence and cannot provide Skilled Worker sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Lead investigations into complex application and service issues, perform root cause analysis and implement effective solutions.
- Develop, maintain and support business-critical applications, batch processes, integrated services and relational databases.
- Deliver technical changes and enhancements in collaboration with architects, engineers and operational teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve system performance, resilience, maintainability and engineering practices.
- Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge and support team development.
Technologies
- Cloud
- Support
- Java
- Linux
- Oracle
- SQL
- Unix
- Web
- DevOps
More
We are the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), working in partnership with Inspire People to recruit a Senior Legacy Software Engineer for the Vehicle System Software (VSS) team. VSS is the UKs vehicle system of record, holding information on more than 48 million vehicles and supporting critical motoring services through client/server applications, overnight batch processing and web services. This permanent senior role involves taking ownership of technical challenges across the VSS estate, maintaining service stability and performance, delivering improvements, and contributing to the resilience and sustainability of legacy systems. You will work with architects, engineers and delivery teams and collaborate with modern cloud engineering teams, with training in cloud technologies and modern software engineering practices.
The position is based in Swansea, with 60% office attendance, typically three days per week. Salary is up to £57,400, comprising a £45,900 base salary and an £11,500 Digital and Data allowance, based on interview assessment. We offer flexible working, a Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%, 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days with service, bank holidays and an additional privilege day for the Kings Birthday. Benefits also include learning and development, career progression pathways within DVLA Digital, on-site gym, nursery, restaurants and coffee bar, free parking, and inclusive employee networks and communities. We are holding a virtual Meet the Team session on 25 November at 12:00pm for people interested in learning about the role, team and DVLA Engineering.
last updated 46 week of 2026