Oracle Tech Lead

Location: Hybrid Wilmington, MA  (1 day onsite a week) Local Only  

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

TN, EAD

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Job Description  

8-10 (10) years of Technical Lead

•At least five (5) years of experience with Oracle Cloud Fusion (SaaS) solutions - SaaS, PaaS, IaaS Db solutions and Dev Ops platform:

o            OCI Platform

o            OIC toolset

o            APEX / VBCS

•At least five (5) years of experience with R12 Oracle Financials / SCM projects – including an end-to-end ERP project.

• Exposure to a large footprint of Oracle being deployed-- RICE list comprehensive exposure

•Experience with Azure Dev Ops (ADO) and Oracle Dev Ops platforms

•Experience with integrated solutions leveraging industry standard middleware solutions  - MuleSoft, Informatica, etc.

•Experience integrating Oracle Financial / SCM solutions with 3rd party best in class, master data management solutions, business analytics solutions.

Job Summary:

The Oracle ERP Technical Lead provides perspective, leadership, and technical expertise in defining solutions that align with UniFirst’s business requirements and achieve business goals, leveraging Oracle’s Cloud Fusion application with other 3^rd party SaaS and on-premise solutions. This position serves as a key role in defining strategy, driving innovation, and supporting solution delivery to ensure successful implementation of Oracle Cloud Fusion (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS Db) capabilities and features. The ERP Technical Lead forms strategy on (RICEFW objects) integrations, extensions, master data management, reporting / business analytics ensuring effectiveness and cohesion UniFirst’s application landscape.

Job Detail:

• Implement total business solutions leveraging Oracle Cloud Fusion applications (SaaS / PaaS) technology to drive simplification and reusability.
• Facilitate business process reengineering activities with the business units to deploy solutions that conform to the UniFirst Global Template solution.
• Lead development team (3^rd party strategic partner / internal) through the SDLC process – leveraging Agile / Scrum board methodology.
• Supporting all integration solutions (design / build / test) between Oracle Cloud ERP with 3^rd party application leveraged in financial process execution, including services payment processing, bank integration lock box, cash management, and credit card processing.
• Support all integration solutions (design / build / test) between Oracle Cloud ERP and legacy / SaaS solutions – leveraging the defined integration tools platform.
• Partner with strategic UniFirst’s strategic implementation partner(s) to lead design, configuration, test, and deployment of new or enhanced functionality, business flows, and/or modules.
• Ensure test scripts are developed for various levels of testing and/or validation activity.
• Utilize approved change management processes to document and implement change.
• Support BRM team with all defined change management activities involved with the Oracle Cloud Fusion solution. Ensure process documentation is aligned with training materials.
• Responsible for consistently evaluating new functionality opportunities within Oracle EBS application to support business process reengineering efforts.
• Support all Master Data Management (MDM) requirements associated with business unit transitions, and ongoing maintenance ensuring high MDM quality.
• Development and execution of new functionality implementation project plans
• Facilitate ongoing Steady State business processes for deployed solutions and conduct regular global status meetings with key business partners from each business unit / region. Project manage / architect total business solutions to support business process optimization programs
• In conjunction with business process owners, establish, track, and manage critical KPIs for the defined business processes - supporting both Business Analytics requirements as well as business reporting requirements.
• Analyze Oracle Cloud Fusion quarterly updates for the defined business process and the associated modules in support of strategically planned patches releases as well as one off patches in support the Oracle applications.
• Develop end to end process documentation utilizing global standard tool sets that serve as foundation for test scripts, training materials and business communications.
• Support Process Owner/ Super User / End User training curriculum / requirements as required, including onboarding process defined by HR.
• Collaborate with other Senior Business Analysts, Technical Systems Analysts, IT Team members, strategic Managed Services partner, ensuring efficient support and change management procedures.
• Support UniFirst’s Oracle Cloud Fusion solution infrastructure requirements in support of all continuous improvement project requirements (Non-PROD, Projects instances)
• Additional responsibilities / accountabilities:
• Accountable to the delivery lead to provide input and advice on all tech aspects of the assigned project/workstream
• Accountable for providing technology estimates.
• Technology leader and decision maker on assigned initiatives.
• Responsible for hands-on involvement in development duties
• Responsible for all aspects of supported systems including requirements, designs, data flows, integrations, project proposals, security, and stability.
• Responsible for initiative-taking monitoring of systems
• Responsible for the design of systems and functionality and/or the delegation and oversight of designs
• Responsible for code quality of ongoing work including code reviews, code analysis, performance monitoring, and oversight of testers/test processes.
• Provide reporting on the status of applications, projects, and teams.
• Responsible for the coordination of system changes across other groups within our clients including development, BRM, infrastructure, project management, and business users.
• Deep understanding of source control, environment management, integrations, security best practices

Experience

• At least ten (10) years of Technical Lead
• At least five (5) years of experience with Oracle Cloud Fusion (SaaS) solutions - SaaS, PaaS, IaaS Db solutions and Dev Ops platform:
• OCI Platform
• OIC toolset
• APEX / VBCS
• At least five (5) years of experience with R12 Oracle Financials / SCM projects – including an end-to-end ERP project.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops (ADO) and Oracle Dev Ops platforms
• Experience with integrated solutions leveraging industry standard middleware solutions  - MuleSoft, Informatica, etc.
• Experience integrating Oracle Financial / SCM solutions with 3^rd party best in class, master data management solutions, business analytics solutions.
• Experience with providing project estimates and managing projects.
• Proficient Project Management capabilities – the ability to define, execute a project plan to achieve project deliverables.
• Complete understanding of the ERP cloud application implementation life cycle process
• Experience supporting SOX requirements – internal and external auditing.
• Proficient skills in SQL, PL/SQL to support data extract, analysis in the problem resolution process

Education

BS / BA – Information Technology or related functional area

Success Criteria

1. Develop working relationships with the business and across functional work teams to understand business requirements and guide resolution via system functionality, enhancement, and/or business process change.
2. Analyze current processes and implement most cost effective and best practice process changes to accommodate the implementation of the system.
3. Strong Cloud Application knowledge base – refreshing, quarterly patching.
4. Strong operational knowledge base
5. Ability to translate technical information into terms understandable by non-IT knowledgeable business personnel.
6. Excellent project management, time management, and facilitation skills on process design and change management.
7. Accountability – become well respected by functional leaders and peers with meeting deliverable, credible resource, and leader relative to functional area of expertise.
8. Track record of being a team player - Collaborates with others on work and problem resolution.
9. Brings unique skills and perspectives on business needs and requirements.
10. Effective communication / facilitation, interpersonal skills