Applications Specialist

Role: Applications Specialist Location: RG7 4PR , located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking . Package: Starting from £50,060p.a (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience) Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight.

We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Let us introduce

the role

The Applications Specialist provides subject matter expertise and quality assurance for assigned enterprise applications, ensuring application changes are effectively defined, governed, tested, implemented and transitioned into operational service.

Reporting to the Domain Lead (Applications) and working closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, suppliers and operational support functions, the role is accountable for maintaining application fitness for purpose, supporting continuous improvement, safeguarding data integrity, and ensuring changes align with business objectives, enterprise standards, security requirements and operational needs.

The role acts as a trusted advisor throughout the application lifecycle, supporting the successful delivery, adoption and ongoing optimisation of business-critical applications. Key Accountabilities: Requirements Integrity: Accountable for ensuring business and functional requirements are accurately captured, validated, traceable and maintained throughout the change lifecycle.

Application Fitness for Purpose: Accountable for ensuring assigned applications continue to meet agreed business, operational and compliance requirements. Solution Quality Assurance: Accountable for assuring that proposed application changes meet documented requirements, quality standards and acceptance criteria prior to release.

Data Integrity: Accountable for assessing and safeguarding the impact of application changes on data quality, master data, business reporting and downstream processes. Operational Readiness: Accountable for ensuring application changes are fully documented, tested, supportable and successfully transitioned into operational service.

Supplier Assurance: Accountable for validating supplier deliverables against agreed requirements, security standards, operational acceptance criteria and quality expectations. Standards and Compliance: Accountable for ensuring application changes align with enterprise architecture, cyber security, risk management, governance and regulatory requirements. Benefits Realisation Supp...

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