Defence Business Services (DBS) CSM-CDSDefHrs Application Lead - MoD - G7

Are you ready to shape how the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is designed and is operated, directly enabling the defence of the UK? The MOD is seeking an exceptional and experienced professional for one of MOD’s top strategic priorities; Corporate Services Modernisation.

Corporate Services are critically important for the 250,000 people working across Defence to do their day-to-day jobs. For example, every time the department procures military equipment, personnel receive their monthly pay or request their vacation, they are using Corporate Services. As part of the wider government Shared Services Strategy, MOD has established the Corporate Services Modernisation (CSM) portfolio to drive Human Resources, Commercial and Finance policy, process, organisational, data and systems transformation. (More information on the Shared Services agenda can be found through this link: A Shared Services Strategy for Government - GOV.UK ([http://www.gov.uk)]www.gov.uk)).

Our ambition is to revolutionise MOD corporate services to:

Improve the user experience by simplifying our policies and processes, ; providing easier and better interfaces to systems and self-service and; making services more responsive and providing easy access to help.
Deliver better data driven decision making by introducing and fully exploiting the latest Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Human Capital Management (HCM) technology; improving visibility, accuracy and accessibility of management information across defence; and, using integrated data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to inform decision making.
Improve Productivity and Efficiency by automating transactional processes ; expanding and improving MOD’s shared service centre operations; and, reducing MOD’s overall corporate services spend to maximise our reinvestment into the front-line.

DBS has recently undertaken a review of its operational locations in the North West, and have consolidated all activities in Norcross, Blackpool. A further move, to the new Government Hub at Talbot Gateway in Blackpool, is scheduled to take place in 2026.

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Job description

The Ministry of Defence is moving its core HR systems to a Software as a Service (SAAS) Oracle Fusion platform.

The Civilian population’s HR services have already transitioned to SAAS solution however, CSM (specifically the Defence HR Services (DefHRS) project) has been established to transform MoDs offering to a whole force solution.

CSM is looking for an experienced software developer to support the DefHRS project’s discovery phase, lead the design and development of the solution and provide enduring support and change through-life.

The CDS-DefHRS Application Lead position will be responsible and accountable for the delivery of the  DefHrs HR Application, specifically:

Discovery; Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) you will be expected to work alongside our delivery partner advising, supporting, directing, driving the team to deliver high quality discovery products eg designs, options assessments, plans etc. Implementation Team mobilisation will also be a key part of this phase (recruit, build and upskill).

Implementation: As the Application lead you will be expected to manage our Delivery Partner and internal team to develop, configure, unit test, document, support testing and ultimately deliver the solution into the live environment.

Support: As the Application lead, you will be expected to manage our Delivery Partner and Internal teams to provide early life support/hypercare to the delivered DefHRS solution.

Enduring support: The successfully candidate will be expected continue and manage the internal team to provide through life support and change management.

Person specification

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

A strong development background in SAAS Oracle Fusion with a proven track record of delivering change and support. 
A good understanding of MOD’s Corporate HR Service, processes, structures and systems or Corporate Service arrangements of similar complexity in the wider public or private sectors would be advantageous
Great communication and team working skills

Behaviours

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

Leadership
Changing and Improving
Communicating and Influencing
Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

DDAT - Lead Developer - Modern Standards
DDAT - Lead Developer - Programming and build (software engineering)
DDAT - Lead Developer - Systems design
DDAT - Lead Developer - Systems integration