BGI has the following Contract to Hire position with our direct client located in Secaucus, NJ
The Oracle Senior Engineer is accountable for proactively and holistically leading or supporting EA activities that create deliverables that guide the direction and drive targeted business outcomes. Oracle Senior Engineer role is focused on Architect, defining and implementing Oracle Cloud solutions addressing business requirements and priorities for the Oracle Domain & Fusion Cloud applications process area.
Oracle Senior Engineer provides the leadership around analysis and design tasks required for the architecture landscape. They work towards the Architecture spike to assess & gather artifacts towards the current state architecture and propose future state architecture for the application. Oracle Senior Engineer will ensure application stability to our client's business towards related business system applications and prepare guidelines to support events without causing any impact to revenue.
In the context of a project, the Oracle Senior Engineer reports into Director, Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications & Business Systems Architecture and partners closely with the Project Manager to ensure requirements are clearly understood, and translates these requirements into necessary application and technology components that meet the business need. The Oracle Senior Engineer is responsible for ensuring that their solutions meet both the functional and technical requirements outlined for the project. The candidate must have strong communication skills, full life-cycle experience as well as excellent skills in architecture and designing robust yet pragmatic solutions using Oracle Fusion Cloud SaaS/PaaS software.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Scope of Activities
• Work with Enterprise Architect peers (e.g., enterprise, business, information and solutions architects) to analyze and derive the technology architecture future state.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Lead the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Coach, mentor and collaborate with technical subject matter experts and EA peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models.
• Assist with designing the governance and technology standards associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance.
• Oversee and facilitate the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
• Document necessary enterprise technology architecture artifacts, design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.
• Collaborate with business constituents, other EA team members, project teams and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above.
• Perform Architecture assessment analysis and provide High Level Design for requested changes.
• Provide application/technology expertise within the assigned function including conducting In-depth quality reviews on design and testing.
• Complete understanding of the SDLC and Change Management process.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to meet common objectives through teamwork.
• Excellent Problem Analysis, Customization design, Integration Testing, and System Testing.
• Ability to meet and discuss with functional team users to identify opportunities for business improvement and to provide optimized solutions.
• Primary technology liaison to the Business groups regarding application systems architecture landscape.
• Coordinate cross functionally within IT teams to deliver Strategic projects.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose complex business problems and recommend solutions.
• Keep abreast of latest tools / applications / techniques in the assigned area.
• Accomplish effort estimation of scope, provide Architecture guidelines & solution designs and recommend best approach for the business requirement.
• Have In-depth application expertise for Oracle Cloud Order Management & Supply Chain and Other Business systems.
• Review, recommend and influence 3rd party software solutions and adherence to technology standards.
• Analyze business needs to help ensure Oracle solution meets the business objectives by combining industry best practices, product knowledge, and business acumen.
• Analyze, review, and refactor system architecture boundaries to increase efficiency or to adapt to new program and technology requirements.
• Participate in requirement gathering and provide high level and detailed Architecture/Solution Designs.
• Understand governance and policy concepts. Use the experience to create processes and policies and establish governance infrastructures.
• Effectively resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur, consistently following through on details while driving innovation as well as issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Program Managers, Developers, Testers and Production Support teams to implement innovative technical solutions via iterative approach reducing time to delivery.
• Mentor development and support teams by guiding with SOA development standards/guidelines and insights into domain architecture.
• Works towards application stability and restoration of service and prevents problems and roadblocks.
• Provide architectural leadership on adoption of open source applications, selection of packaged and SaaS applications, and integration of applications with other systems and the overall enterprise.
• Build and maintain the Current state, Interim state and Future state architecture views for the domain and enterprise systems - SOA architectures (Hybrid & SaaS approach).
• Effectively collaborates across all delivery teams including Customer, Oracle team, System Integrators, Third Parties.
• Responsible for assessing, defining and championing the IT architecture strategies, principles, policies and standards in alignment with the IT strategy and governing their use.
• Responsible for the research, evaluation, and selection of application, technology, and infrastructure standards.
• Leads the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Creates project and technology roadmaps and define migration plans to mitigate the gaps between the current and future state.
• Develops standards for the specific function or technology domain and defines design patterns and configurations that can be reused as building blocks for other solutions.
• Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to manage change and guide solution decisions for the enterprise.
• Collaborates with IT stakeholders to apply IT strategy to architecture future state architecture and develops roadmaps to realize future state. Collaborates with project teams to understand requested capabilities and recommends the right set of technologies to meet the needs.
• Provides infrastructure capacity recommendations for new applications and systems.
HOW YOU CAN FIT
Credentials and Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer science, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of five years of Architecture, Solutions design & Implementation experience in IT, with a deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: Solutions design, Application configuration, Application Integrations, Middleware Tech stack (On-Premise & Cloud), Servers and storage, Database management, and Operations.
Skills
• Experience in Oracle SaaS/PaaS Cloud applications (Financials, SCM, GOP, OTC, DOO (Distributed Order Orchestration), PPM/EPM Suite and Architect the Process/Integration touch points using Oracle Fusion Middleware Techstack using Oracle API’s and FBDI).
• Experience in SaaS/PaaS integrations into Oracle Fusion Cloud applications.
• Proficient in Functional concepts and understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud SaaS Financials/SCM/PPM/EPM applications.
• Experience in processing EDI Transactions (using CMK & JusTransform) to and from our Suppliers, Customers, the integration of supply chain data to other applications and all SCM reporting needs.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion Middleware Architecture and supporting technologies, defining services, establishing the service usage patterns within the enterprise including orchestration, composition, messaging patterns.
• Experience with modern Middleware technology based architectures and supporting their implementation in a large technology eco-system.
• Expertise in Integration technologies and coordinating work effort using Oracle Fusion Middleware (On-Premise & PaaS Techstack) Web Services.
• Architect, design, and implement Middleware solutions to accommodate cross domain integrations.
• Experience in providing Architectural solutions for a Hybrid Integration approach using Oracle Fusion Cloud SaaS Applications and On-Premise Applications.
• Conduct architecture assessments and define solutions to produce a detailed technical design document for custom development and integration requirements.
• Experience with system development life cycle methodologies (such as True Cloud, Agile & Waterfall software development…)
• Provide integration solutions for new systems / enhancements in accordance with agreed architectural designs and provides development guidance to technical team.
• Expertise with leveraging Oracle Fusion Cloud delivered Web Services/API's.
• Ability to understand requirements and efficiently review the Functional and Technical documents. Ability to communicate the architecture & design changes as needed.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud Security administrative functions - RBAC (Role Based Access Control).
Competencies
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations and how they relate to achieving targeted business outcomes
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of technology alternatives
• Ability to coordinate with cross domain team architects to discuss dependencies
• Ability to apply multiple Technology solutions to enable future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive targeted business outcomes
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of existing, new and emerging technologies that enable and drive new business designs and models
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others and be respected as a leader