Oracle Platform Specialist bei Bank of England

Location: Leeds 
Permanent
Full Time

Description 

This role presents an exciting opportunity for a technically proficient Senior Oracle Platform Engineer. You will be joining the highly skilled and well regarded Database support team, an integral part of the wider CNI Platform support team.

As a senior engineer, you will be able to provide support and expertise to other team members and contribute to all deliverables including planning.

The role requires the ability to work out of hours, partake in a 24x7 standby rota and provide incident support as required for critical events. 

This position requires a minimum of 40% in office attendance. All other times can be done from home or another suitable, and agreed, location in the UK.

Flexible Working Options

This role is open to flexible working patterns, these may include:

• Flexible start and end time to each day
• Part time
• Ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments
• A 40% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks
• Compressed hours (subject to approval and policy within the team)
• Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and policy within the team)

Opportunities in Leeds

A Day in the Role 

The key application supported by the CNI Platform team is RTGS, this service settles £800billion on an average day and is classed as Critical National Infrastructure, by the UK Government, important to the smooth functioning of the UK economy. Each day brings new challenges and opportunities, creating an environment suited for those who work well in a fast-paced setting. An individual whose approach is getting it “right” in tight timescales can make a real difference.

As this role includes support, you may have problem tickets to resolve including detailed root cause analysis.

A typical day would start with the team’s stand-up meeting for the current sprint where you will discuss your immediate workload and any blockers that may exist. Other days may see you attending a major incident management meeting, representing the CNI Platform as the senior Oracle Platform engineer on call, where you have worked on problem root cause and resolution.

You may be the team member responsible for the daily Oracle Platform health checks, a mixture of automated and manual tasks that from part of a permanent daily activity.

Working through your assigned workload, as per the standup and JIRA priorities. These tasks could range from issues or activities that are completed in a matter of hours, or continuation of issues or activities that are almost mini projects lasting over many monthly sprints.

Depending on the rota cover you are on, it could mean on-call standby cover for the evening or weekend. There is also sometimes planned out of hours work or support required into the evening or night, for implementation or support of Oracle Platform issues or maintenance, and/or external teams support (such as supporting Linux patching or upgrades, or the Application team Maintenance Release deployments)

After settlement has closed for the day, you may be patching a service or providing failover support to the application teams.

Whatever your day looks like it is guaranteed to be full, fast paced and rewarding.

Role Requirements

You are a dedicated Oracle Platform engineer within an Agile environment and meet the minimum criteria. You have a clear collaborative approach to working with others, and keen to share knowledge with colleagues.

You also understand that the RTGS environment is critical to the UK Payments Systems which requires a methodical approach and flexibility to work outside of core hours as may be required.

You use best practice in Continuous Improvement/Continuous Development and to manage environments for High Availability and Resilience - safely promoting configuration changes and maintenance from pre-production to live production environments.

Work closely with cross-functional teams ensuring teams understand the deployment process, have access to the necessary tools, and are aligned toward the same goals.

Directly working alongside senior members of external teams and leadership through architectural and problem resolution activities. 

Development and maintenance of technology roadmaps for resilient and available Oracle Platforms.

Minimum Criteria 

We’re looking for someone who has the following key skills and experience:

• Oracle Database Real Application Cluster (RAC) configurations
• Oracle Dataguard configuration, maintenance and operational optimisation
• Oracle Goldengate configuration and Support
• Oracle key Vault (OKV) Capability
• Oracle Database engine Fault Diagnosis and Resolution
• Practical expertise in Oracle Database performance tuning and optimization
• Oracle Enterprise Monitor (OEM) setup, configuration, and alerting enhancements (Metric Extensions)
• Oracle Platform Security concepts and delivery (Kerberos, mTLS and Database Vault)
• Experience with automated build and deployment of Oracle Platforms (Jenkins/Ansible)
• Ability to provide in and out of hours support to the 24/7 production environment, resolving issues as they arise. This includes start of day and end of day working patterns

Essential Criteria

We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:

• Experience of building effective working relationships with others and provide challenge where appropriate 
• Attention to detail with the ability to diagnose and resolve detailed and difficult Oracle Platform issues
• Researching and developing solutions that expand, modernise or improve the service and technology portfolios, automate IT operations, reduce costs or increase levels of service, to demonstrate technical ownership
• Effective member of out of hours standby rota

Desirable Criteria

It would also be beneficial, but not necessary, to have some of the following:

• Experience with other Database Technologies, e.g. Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Splunk Monitoring Integration capability
• Linux Operating System Administration knowledge and experience
• Enterprise systems network integrations with Oracle Platforms
• SAN (Pure) Database Storage Configuration and Integration
• Security skills: knowledge of modern security practices and technologies to ensure the security of applications and infrastructure.
• Industry Certifications

If you do not have all the Minimum or Essential Criteria, your application will still be considered so we encourage you to apply. 

It is important to note that the Bank has a robust ITIL Change Management process, has business-critical processes that depend on our RTGS environment, and requires incidents on these technologies to be resolved quickly. Because of this, you will also need to work evenings and weekends to perform certain tasks, especially on live systems.

How This Role Fits into the Wider Bank 

This role is part of the CNI Platform Team which is part of the Technology Division serving the Markets, Banking, Payments & Resolution division within the Bank of England.

Our Approach to Inclusion

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve. 

At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We believe that it’s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we’ll continue to make the best decisions for the public.

We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns. We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.

For most roles where work can be carried out at home, we aim for colleagues to spend half of their time in the office, with a minimum of 40% per month.  Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them, their team and stakeholders.

Finally, we're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the ‘Candidate Personal Information’ under the ‘Disability Confident Scheme’ section of the application.

Salary and Benefits Information

We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements.  Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.

We offer a salary as follows:

Leeds circa £72,320 - £81,360

In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.   
• 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits. 
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process (and typically can take between 6 to 12 weeks post offer) and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with the Bank policy.  Further information regarding the vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant, and information about how the Bank processes personal data for these purposes, is set out in the Bank's Privacy Notice.

The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance.  As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited.  The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful.  Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.

The Application Process

Important: Please ensure that you complete the ‘work history’ section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It’s therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.

This role closes on 24 October 2025. 

The assessment process will comprise of two interview stages. 

Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed.