Senior Application Engineer (EDRMS)

Salary Range: £44,171 - £61,950

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Are you ready to support and enhance enterprise applications that underpin national security and critical services? At Leonardo UK, our Senior Application Engineers play a key role in maintaining and improving business-critical platforms — ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned with operational needs. You’ll work collaboratively across engineering and service teams, contributing to technical delivery and continuous improvement.

Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers.

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Application Engineer to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division team. This role is focused on delivering, maintaining, and improving platform and systems engineering solutions that underpin critical defence, government and public sector services.

What you will do as a Senior Application Engineer

• Support, configure, and enhance enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Dynamics, or other business-critical platforms.

• Deliver engineering tasks within defined work packages, ensuring alignment with user needs, security requirements, and service-level objectives.

• Contribute to application architecture, integration, and lifecycle activities under the guidance of senior engineers.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, service management, and business teams to resolve technical issues.

• Mentor junior engineers and specialists, supporting their development and promoting best practices.

• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, including automation, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

• Ensure compliance with engineering governance, ITSM processes, and cyber security policies.

• Solid experience in supporting, configuring, and enhancing enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Dynamics, or similar platforms.

• Ability to solve moderately complex application-related issues and contribute to secure, scalable solutions.

• Understanding of application lifecycle management, integration patterns, and secure-by-design principles.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and business teams.

• A proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

• Support, configuration, and enhancement of Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS)

• Management of document and records lifecycle (ingestion, classification, retention, disposal)

• Configuration of document-driven workflows and case management processes

• Integration of EDRMS platforms with enterprise systems (identity, line-of-business applications, data sources)

• Application lifecycle management (deployment, maintenance, upgrades, decommissioning)

• Integration patterns and identity management (e.g. SSO, RBAC, API integration)

• Secure-by-design principles and application security practices

• Technical problem solving and resolution of application-related issues

• Collaboration with engineering, service management, and business teams

• Experience supporting systems aligned to information governance and compliance requirements

• Delivery within enterprise / secure / defence environments

• Experience with EDRMS platforms (e.g. Hyland OnBase or similar)

• Knowledge of records management standards (retention policies, audit, compliance)

• Integration with enterprise systems (e.g. SAP, CRM, finance platforms)

• Automation of document ingestion and classification (OCR, metadata tagging)

• Reporting and audit capabilities within document management systems

• Experience integrating with enterprise services (Active Directory, identity platforms)

• Exposure to DevOps / CI-CD practices

• Experience working in secure or regulated environments

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) will apply. This role requires Developed Vetting (DV) clearance prior to starting. For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

This role will be based at one of our UK sites  - Yeovil.