Application Engineer (Exstream) BPDTS Ltd
Reference
BPDTS 70.20
Location
Blackpool, Leeds & Newcastle
Salary
£45,443 — Up to £58,433
Work hours
37.5 pw
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
Our flexible benefits package includes employer pension contributions of up to 10%, a performance related annual bonus and lots more.
Closing date
11 October 2020
Job description
BPDTS. Digital People.
We are looking for Software and Application Engineers to join our Integration team in Newcastle.
You’ll be working with OpenText Exstream. You’ll need creative and technical skills in Exstream development and be able to provide expertise in using the application in support of a large-scale production environment.
BPDTS Ltd provides dedicated services to the Department for Work and Pensions. Our digital, data and technology specialists work closely with experts in DWP Digital’s community to make digital services quicker, simpler and more efficient for the millions of people that use them.
In BPDTS our people are our biggest asset. We harness and develop their expertise so we can design, build and run secure and intuitive digital services used by 20 million UK citizens, often during critical times in their lives.
You and your role
You’ll be working on one of our flagship digital projects, delivering Personal Independence Payments (PIP) products and services with and for DWP.
You’ll be part of a small team initially, responsible for the development of notifications generated by the PIP system. This may be expanded to development of notifications for other systems. Your work will transform how users and government interact and will impact many millions of people.
Your role will have loads of scope, including building, installing and configuring the Exstream platform to support letter and booklet composition needs for the DWP.
You will also be responsible for template and component design, rules, functions and formulae.
You should be comfortable packaging applications and have a knowledge of barcode requirements and development for high volume delivery.
You’ll need experience of Exstream functionality such as variable design, real time composition, advanced data and content integration and output to multiple document formats.
You’ll be a great fit for our team if you have a positive outlook and an insatiable appetite for learning and sharing skills and best practice, independently and in collaboration with other digital experts on our agile, multi-disciplinary teams.
What skills, knowledge and experience do you need?
- Opentext Exstream Designer/Design Manager v16.4 (particularly Templates, Object, Rules, Variables and creation of Output).
- VB Script
- Production of Batch scripts
- Packaging, delivery and storage of the application.
- Knowledge of Exstream Installation and upgrade process, including licence requirements and associated products
- SQL Server Management Studio
- XML Spy for creating XSD and XML structure. Ability to map Columnar, Delimited, and XML data files
- Setting up and maintaining batch environments for OpenText Exstream
- Familiar with inserts and barcode setup
- Understanding of report file and variable reset timing
- Different output formats AFP & PDF
Desirable skills
You know what desirable means. These are just nice to have. Hopefully they give some extra insight into how we work here too.
- Demonstrable experience working with Software Engineering collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack
- Demonstrable experience of Behaviour Driven Development with tools like Cucumber
- Experience of modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by other Software Engineers
- Experience building public facing and internal REST
- APIs
Where will you work?
You’ll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in either Blackpool, Leeds or Newcastle. Find out more about working in our hubs here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
We also all have the tech and tools we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
What is our offer?
- We’ll reward you with a very competitive salary of up to £58,433
- You will be eligible for an Aviva Master Trust pension with employer contributions of up to 10%
- We can offer you a performance-related annual bonus and in-year reward ad recognition
- We’ll help you balance your life and work with flexible working and family friendly policies
- We’ll give you a generous leave allowance starting and 25 days and rising to 30, with the option to buy and sell extra days each year.
- We’ll help you work as you learn with access to coaching, training, structured development and career progression opportunities, as part of a dedicated community of practice.
We also offer much more as part of a flexible benefits package – including a cycle to work scheme, employee discounts, income protection, life assurance and lots more – which can be tailored to your lifestyle.
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