Provides application or infrastructure technical expertise, analysis and specifications for IT systems to meet business requirements in accordance with IT architecture policies and standards; translate requirements into technical specifications, create detailed solution design, coordinate construction, installation, configuration and testing of IT systems; and identifies, troubleshoots and resolves system technical issues.
Creates and manages life cycle of technical specifications from which programs and configurations will be applied to create the application, infrastructure or complete solution.
Assists in technical analysis of potential solutions including evaluating the technical fit and viability of commercial-of-the-shelf products versus custom built solution.
Delivers solution adhering to standards and leveraging re-use of components.
Creates high level and detail design of infrastructure OR applications, interfaces, conversions, extensions, reports, and workflows while meeting architecture, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability requirements.
Assists technical and infrastructure groups in understanding the solution design and specifications.
Works closely with IT technical service providers to ensure outsourced work packages are delivered to specifications, meeting key parameters of quality, schedule, cost, security, performance, and scalability.
Conducts or participates in formal design reviews and code reviews (where applicable) to ensure the detailed design specifications have been understood and coding standards have been adhered to by the development team(s).
Seeks appropriate opportunities to promote re-usability of component designs to reduce costs and shorten time to deliver solutions.
Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance efficiency in the build and deploy processes, leveraging automation where possible.
Assists in the test strategy and execution of master test plan.
Participates in the creation of standards, processes, procedures, and guidelines for the IT design and development community as well work instructions or ‘runbooks’ used for end-user support.
Analyzes and revises existing systems and documentation to identify remediation or improvements in the application or infrastructure solution.
Provides level 3 support for critical non-routine issues.
Coaches less experienced team members on technical matters.
Skills
Solution Design - Creates and defines the solution design complete with instrumentation and measurement, using industry standards and tools, version control, and build and test automation to synthesize diagrams, models and documentation in order to build a solution that meets buildability, business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
Solution Functional Fit Analysis - Composes and decomposes a system into its component parts using procedures, tools and work aides for the purpose of studying how well the component parts were designed, purchased and configured to interact holistically to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
Solution Modeling - Creates, designs and formulates models, diagrams and documentation using industry standards, tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
Solution Configuration - Configures, creates and tests a solution for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications using industry standards and tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
Data Modeling - Creates, writes and tests data models, test scripts and build scripts using industry standards and tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
Performance Tuning - Conceptualizes, analyzes and solves application, database and hardware problems using industry standards and tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
Strategic mindset - Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
Directs work - Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.
Develops talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
Education, Licenses, Certifications
College, university, or equivalent degree in Information Technology, Business or a related subject required.
This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience
Significant relevant experience required. 5-7 years of experience.
This person will be the IT Technical Leader for theBOLT & Thunder applications.
Experience with Oracle EBS 12.1 and 12.2 technical stack components and Oracle Fusion SaaS Cloud applications is essential.
A good level of knowledge of Oracle Financials functionality, particularly AP, AR & GL, with an awareness of the Procure to Pay cycle and Order to Cash cycles is preferred.
Aware of integration patterns and technology and best practices for different use cases.
Awareness of best practices for code design, modular design/development and design for performance. Some experience in resolving performance issue as reactive mode as well as proactive design consideration. Ability to work with DBA groups to differentiate Infrastructure / database and code related performance issues will be added advantage.
Govern conformance of the use of data in ETL tools and technology like Informatica and Teradata solutions to the enterprise data model and usage policies and standards.
Lead the analysis, design, development and implementation of logical data models; physical database objects; data conversion, integration and loading process; query and reporting functions; data management and governance; and data quality assurance processes related to Finance data.
Assist in developing enterprise-level strategies and principles for data integration and unification of enterprise information resources by helping to define standards for data format, quality, and database design. Help build and maintain the finance information model and ensure linkages to other architecture model and reference architectures.
Proven ability to lead a technical team and to coach and mentor direct reports. Self motivated to learn and apply new technologies.
