Role: PL/SQL Backend Developer
Location: Houston, TX
Duration: 6 Months Contract to hire
Note: Mode of interview Face 2 Face
Summary: Interfaces with clients at all organizational levels to lead, plan, develop, evaluate, assess or modify applications in support of various business units. Transforms or translate business requirements into technical specifications, takes business requirements and delivers and/or directs execution of technical work to yield productive products for business client end-users.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Provided technical guidance and leadership to a team of IT professionals, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.
Manage and perform planning, development, coding, testing, migration to production, and the maintenance of applications within multiple environments.
Performs analysis of client requirements and designs or modifies programs/systems to meet those requirements. Prepares models, (event, process, data, object, etc.) and prototypes as needed.
Support and lead analysis and evaluation of packaged software and assists in implementation of packaged software.
Collaborated closely with other departments such as Security, UNIX, LAN Operations, and Data Base Support to ensure overall success of the application. Coordination with other groups for interface support such as SAP, Meter Reading, and Outage.
Leads coordination with other groups such as Infrastructure, DBAs and third party vendors to implement new, changed or upgraded hardware and upgraded software.
Creates, monitors and reports project status.
Designs, codes, documents and tests software and software components.
Lead and participates in system testing, performance testing, failover testing and quality assurance reviews.
Participates in scheduled annual disaster recovery tests, including maintenance of required documentation and coordination of user participation.
Facilitate communication between stakeholders from different departments by organizing meetings and workshops as needed.
Perform software deployments including weekend and night rollouts.
Creates required change management documentation for production system deployments.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred. In lieu of a degree, any combination of applicable college education and applicable experience equal to four years will be considered.
Experience:
Requires a minimum of twelve to fifteen years' progressive experience encompassing planning, development, testing and supporting productive business application systems. Field operation business process knowledge with associated software implementation experience is required.
Must have the ability to execute analysis, design, development, and maintenance activities without significant, direct supervision. Multidiscipline experience is required in applications utilizing several operating systems and developed using a varied mix of environments and/or languages. Acceptable experience includes roles in planning, developing, coding, testing, migration to production, distribution and support of package software, and the maintenance and support of applications within environments such as Oracle, PL/SQL and .NET.
Required Technology Experience: Oracle, PL/SQL, C#, Web Services, .Net, XML, ASP.Net, HTML, MS SQL Server, MS Visual Studio (Includes C#, Visual Basic), SOAP
Beneficial Experience: Linux, Service Suite Work Order System (Development and Support)
Additional Knowledge, Skills, Licenses/Certifications, Abilities & Personal Characteristics (KSLAPs):
Must demonstrate commitment to compliance with applicable laws and regulations, the Company's Ethics and Compliance Code of Conduct, and other Company policies and procedures, and take all required training courses.
Must demonstrate respect for all individuals and adhere to the Company's values and business practices.
Ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical client end-users.
Proven successful programmer.
Excellent communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills.
Ability to prioritize and adapt to both routine and unpredictable work activities.
Capable of working effectively and efficiently to deliver work products; particularly under pressure of stringent timelines.
Ability to make effective presentations to client end-users
Ability to work independently with little or no supervision.
Off hour/weekend rollouts of vendor software required.
Knowledge of or ability to learn Mobile software.
Knowledge of or ability to learn WebSphere Portal, FileNet, Sybase, SharePoint, SOA, Business Objects
Willingness and ability to cross-train with other members of the team.
Physical Requirements:
Able to operate a personal computer, either desktop or laptop.
Able to sit and view a personal computer display for long periods of time
Able to travel out of town, occasionally overnight for meetings, audits, conferences etc.
Must possess the ability to operate a copy machine, fax machine, calculator, telephone and other miscellaneous office equipment.
Working Conditions:
Able to work indoors, in an office environment.
Able to work overtime (scheduled and/or unscheduled, nights and/or weekends) occasionally, as needed or required to meet established deadlines or to perform deployments.
Off hour on-call work as required
Off hour/weekend rollout of vendor software as required
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