{"id":4020120,"url":"https://alion.io/job/awe-applications-specialist","title":"Applications Specialist","company":{"id":1799578,"name":"AWE","domain":"awe.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/awe-co-uk","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Reading, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":50060,"max":null,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":67147},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T14:43:11Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T19:44:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.\nRole: Applications Specialist\nLocation: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.\nPackage: Starting from £50,060p.a (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)\nWorking 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.\nLet us introduce the role:\nThe 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.\nKey Accountabilities:\nRequirements Integrity: Accountable for ensuring business and functional requirements are accurately captured, validated, traceable and maintained throughout the change lifecycle. \nApplication Fitness for Purpose: Accountable for ensuring assigned applications continue to meet agreed business, operational and compliance requirements. \nSolution Quality Assurance: Accountable for assuring that proposed application changes meet documented requirements, quality standards and acceptance criteria prior to release. \nData Integrity: Accountable for assessing and safeguarding the impact of application changes on data quality, master data, business reporting and downstream processes. \nOperational Readiness: Accountable for ensuring application changes are fully documented, tested, supportable and successfully transitioned into operational service. \nSupplier Assurance: Accountable for validating supplier deliverables against agreed requirements, security standards, operational acceptance criteria and quality expectations. \nStandards and Compliance: Accountable for ensuring application changes align with enterprise architecture, cyber security, risk management, governance and regulatory requirements. \nBenefits Realisation Support: Accountable for ensuring application changes support agreed business outcomes and intended operational benefits. \nApplication Lifecycle Management: Accountable for maintaining awareness of application lifecycle risks, technical debt, upgrade requirements and vendor roadmaps. \nRisk and Issue Management: Accountable for identifying, assessing and escalating risks, issues and dependencies that may impact application service quality or change delivery. \nEssential Criteria:\nDegree or equivalent experience in IT, business systems, technology, applications management or a related discipline. \nExperience supporting enterprise application change, enhancement, upgrade or configuration activities. \nExperience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements. \nExperience supporting application testing, defect management and acceptance activities. \nExperience working with third-party suppliers and service providers. \nExperience assessing business process, operational and technical impacts of change. \nRisk identification and mitigation skills. \nStructured problem-solving and root cause analysis. \nAbility to challenge assumptions and proposed solutions constructively. \nStrong attention to detail and quality focus. \nAbility to balance business needs, risk, compliance and operational considerations. \nWork hard, be rewarded:\nWe ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:\n9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.\n Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).\nFamily friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.\nOpportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.\nEmployee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.\n Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).\nDiscounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.\n Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.\nAll candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.\nNext steps: \nEveryone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.\nImportant things you need to know:\nWe encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.\nYou will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. \n We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodationsduring the process.\nOur interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.\nOur ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. Westrive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. 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