Software Engineer V - Oracle SQL DBA
Period: 11/09/2026 to 05/08/2027
Location: 1901 Chouteau Avenue. St. Louis, MO
Employment Type - Direct W2 Employment
Previously, candidates fell short with the Oracle SQL DBA experience.
Tell me about the team and how this position fits within it: Manage the Unifier financial platform team within Client transmission. Finance/forecasting and project material procurement. IT Org for procurement. This position will be the sysadmin for the different systems.
Tell me about the day-to-day: Need upgrades done, changes made to the system to automate. Systems are Oracle based. Two different types of roles: Fix systems that are not working properly (figure out why they're not working properly). To do upgrades and enhancements to the system. Right now, we are manually doing integrations. The goal is to automate upgrades.
Must-have skills: System admin experience, technical knowledge, work effectively with the team. Be creative with coming up with solutions and develop new processes for improvement. ETL. Oracle experience. Apache. Database.
Nice-to-have skills: Unifier and OPPM. Cura.
Working arrangements: 3 days a week, M/W required as the rest of the team will be onsite.
Extend or convert: The goal is to convert assuming the work is good.
Interview process: Preferred to be onsite. 2-3 total team members will be involved. Ideally one round.
Job Description
About The Position
- Analyzes, designs, codes, tests, configures and modifies software projects and/or products or enhancements using various programming languages, technologies and development methodologies.
- Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements application, software and/or operating system components, software tools, and utilities; conducts performance testing.
- Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to guarantee availability and increase efficiency.
- Completes technical documentation for multiple functions, including but not limited to testing, QA, training, troubleshooting, operating, and/or procedures for installation and maintenance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Works across multiple modules on projects and supports groups of modules/module areas
- Implements and tests moderately complex code changes to fix identified defects in existing software products (e.g., identify and debug an application)
- Moderately enhances new/future software releases and/or creates new software applications
- Strengthens understanding of on-premise solutions and cloud-based solutions/environments; configures components of new systems/technologies to cloud-based solutions
- Troubleshoots moderate bugs within code (within own component); performs actions as designated in the remediation plan
- Assists and provides additional support in solving software/systems monitoring issues and escalations which require moderate technical expertise to troubleshoot
- Reviews requirements and researches and identifies alternative technical solutions
- Develops understanding of Client’s business to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts
- Understands the Digital organization’s objectives, and the impact on own projects; contributes to development of new technology integration and enablement plans
- Works in an agile environment and engages in development practices such as peer programming and test-driven development
- Works closely with business analysts to gain understanding of basic requirements and translates into one or more API-led connectivity solutions (integrations, interfaces, proxies, objects, shared code library, etc.); reviews options to identify best solution and provides design for selected solution
- Understands and is familiar with relevant technologies in order to design, develop, document, and support simple to moderately complex integration solutions utilizing design patterns, reference architectures and best practices
- Collaborates with various stakeholders to test new and modified application solutions, utilizing test-driven development when possible
- Provides assistance to other developers for designing integrations, interfaces, proxies, business objects and business services as needed
- May be required to work off-hours for project needs, support/upgrade/outage reasons, and systems implementations
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in engineering, mathematics, computer science or business
- 5+ years of relevant experience required with Oracle-SQL Database writing queries, views and stored procedures for ETL workloads
- Ability to build Autosys jobs and services/tasks
- Experience with troubleshooting, reading logs and administrator tasks
- OPPM and Unifier database table structure knowledge
- Experience with Unifier site administration, Linux server administration and building reports
- OPPM experience with Windows server administration, configuring front end forms/dashboards and user administration
the below summary listed in order of priority needs to be included in the posting.
The below experience needs are listed in the order of importance:
- Oracle SQL DBA expertise
- Strong hands-on experience developing, troubleshooting, and tuning Oracle SQL, stored procedures, triggers, and database performance issues in enterprise environments.
- Linux server setup and application support
- Ability to build, configure, patch, monitor, and support Linux servers used to host business-critical applications.
- Windows server configuration and application installation
- Experience configuring Windows Server environments, installing applications, validating dependencies, and supporting operational stability.
- Oracle application experience
- Familiarity with Oracle-based enterprise applications such as Unifier, OPPM, Primavera, or similar platforms, including application configuration, upgrades, integrations, and production support.
- Operational troubleshooting mindset
- Ability to diagnose issues across databases, servers, applications, and integrations while coordinating effectively with infrastructure, vendor, and business teams.
- Documentation and knowledge sharing
- Comfortable documenting configurations, support procedures, recurring issues, and resolution steps to improve long-term maintainability.
