Job: Oracle Sr SW Engineer

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Jobing Description

Candidate will develop/maintain databases, user interfaces, code, etc. associated with the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS). The DCPDS system houses HR data associated with Defense Civilian Personnel. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, have an inquisitive attitude, and successfully solve problems. Candidate must have the ability to interact and work collaboratively with a diverse set of users (developers, testers, customers, team leads, management, system users, etc.). Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide technical knowledge/expertise to support the requirements definition and design of system components/subsystems utilizing the Oracle E-Business Suite and/or HR modules;

• Research, design, develop, and modify the DCPDS enterprise-wide software to implement changes/enhancements to the system;

• Evaluate the hardware/software interfaces/processing and analyze the impact of designs/implementations to the overall system;

• Plan the deployment of system upgrades/updates, software patches/releases, and configuration changes;

• Consider configuration management, security, quality control in designs/implementations;

• Resolve requests for assistance in troubleshooting issues assigned to the development team;

• Support functional/regression testing activities in support of system functionality releases, patches and upgrades;

• Document, track, and update System Change Requests and Problem Reports;

• Perform data collection/analysis, report results, and formulate recommendations;

• Provide feedback/status/etc. to the customer as needed/required; ∙ Analyze process improvement areas/recommend changes to processes/procedures for efficiencies/cost-savings/etc.;

• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for a position of public trust

Skills / Requirements

Required qualifications:

• Oracle EBS (E-Business Suite);

• Experience with underlying Oracle ERP applications database architecture

• Experience with Oracle database and development tools (PL/SQL, SQL Plus, Forms, Reports, JDeveloper, Java, Framework, and JSP)

• Knowledge and experience with COTS integration / COTS lifecycle / COTS maintenance

• Experience with Software Configuration Management tools (e.g. PVCS)

• Ability to learn/understand the system architecture of the system and the data flow through the system

• SQL skills

• Intermediate UNIX skills

• Strong organizational and analytical skills

• Strong teamwork, problem solving and customer interaction skills

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Experience with MS Office products

Desired Practical Experience and Knowledge:

• HP Quality Center

• Experience with Business Objects user interface (e.g. Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports) and features (e.g. save, schedule, export), including the ability to build ad-hoc queries

• Related domain knowledge (human resources)

• Knowledge and experience with distributed systems, data warehousing, web application servers, Enterprise Service Bus (EBS), Business Intelligence (BI), Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) , Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts

• Experience in web-based application development using HTML, JavaScript and Java

• Experience with web services (WSDSL/SOAP/XML)

• Working knowledge of UNIX operating systems and distributed system concepts

• Understanding of data modeling and data warehousing methodologies

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 14 years of professional experience (can substitute Master’s Degree and 12 years of professional experience)

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