About us

Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. Because, we’re not just home to the UK’s fast-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. And we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind.

Camden Council are looking to invest in a talented Senior Applications Analyst who can demonstrate a balanced mix of technical and business skills with a passion to drive service improvement and enhance application and data integration.

Working in Digital and Data Services means you will join a diverse and ambitious team helping to make the borough a better place for all. This role will be key in supporting services across the council including HR and Payroll as part of their Oracle Cloud HCM Solution.

The role

As a Senior Application Analyst, you’ll be responsible for resolving functional issues and providing in-depth technical support to colleagues across the organisation to deliver business benefits. You’ll be required to configure, writing script and maintain applications, whilst also testing any new software upgrades. You’ll also play an active role in undertaking any projects and work as a team to analyse, define and implement interfaces between business applications to provide integrated solutions for Council Systems.

You’ll be working in a fast paced environment, you’ll need strong stakeholder management skills as you’ll be contributing to support a newly implemented integrated HR and Finance system and to liaise with 3rd party supplier of applications and business partners.

We’re looking for someone with at least two years’ experience providing techno-functional support for HR and Finance Systems and the ability to grasp complexity of systems integration.

You’ll also be familiar with application management, support, change management and its practical application in a large organisation, alongside knowledge of HR and Finance Systems.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage customer expectations is key to the role as you’ll be providing 1st and 2nd line technical support to a range of users. Ideally, you’ll have an understanding of good IT practice and procedures in relation to the support of cloud solutions, servers, networks, operating systems and upgrades.

This will be a challenging role as you’ll need to manage conflicting deadlines whilst working as a team to deliver a first class user experience. For more information regarding this role please refer to the job profile.

Working for Camden

We’re ready to welcome your ideas, your views, and your rebellious spirit. Help us redefine our corporate services, and we’ll redefine what a career can be.

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits as well as joining a flexible working employer. Click HERE to see full details of our benefits.

Additional information

To view the Job Profile, please click HERE

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply" link. In the ‘Why you?’ section of the application you will be required to demonstrate how you meet the role criteria noted in the Job Profile under the “About You” section.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit our recruitment website

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.