Application Engineer - Oracle Cloud Fusion Financials (ERP)

Overview

As an Oracle Cloud Fusion Financials Engineer, the candidate would understand the business requirements, abstract the requirements, and design a configurable, extensible, scalable, performant, robust solution for Oracle Fusion Financials.

The person will be responsible for providing technical solutions to implement Oracle Cloud Fusion Financials, ensuring the designed solutions are workable by coding or piloting in key modules, and being agile and innovative to solve business problems. Individuals in this role will work on multiple highly complex projects and require technical knowledge of Oracle cloud architecture approach and have experience of Oracle cloud technology stack. In this role, the candidate will be expected to work on multiple projects and be able to collaborate in multiple engagements across the product teams.

Positions in this function would be responsible for delivering professional level technical work in support of the development of applications, tools, platforms, and services. The person would need to operate within established methodologies, procedures, and guidelines and apply knowledge of principles and techniques to solve technical problems. Work is self-directed and not prescribed. Work involves understanding the customer's business challenges and producing solutions to solve the problem with enhanced features and process flows while including advanced technology components and working with system implementors and vendors. The person would also engage with various stakeholders to research and provide evidence related to IT audit questions and observation raised by Finance Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICFR) Team, Technology Risk Team, Internal Audit, and External Audit Teams. This position also requires independently working with various cross-functional team members to design and develop solutions and provide IT support for critical processes including supporting the IT month-end, quarter-end, and year-end tasks including the generation of vendor 1099 files and reports.

The candidate must be experienced in various architecture patterns, have participated in the full Software Development Life Cycle (requirements, Design, Development, Deployment, and Support) and Agile SAFe methodologies, Be Able to Communicate Solution Requirements and Architecture with Technical and Non-technical Stakeholders. This role also requires outstanding communications skills.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a team that works with the development and integration of Oracle Cloud Fusion Financials with respect to application/enterprise capabilities and software for multiple on-going projects, collaborating closely with enterprise and solution architects, aligning to most current strategies.
• Responsible for systems analysis, design, development, integration, enhancement, and deployment as well as application support for various applications
• Manage the deployment of new modules, upgrades, and fixes
• Develop new reports using Oracle Cloud Reporting applications
• Define, develop, or modify software application modules or enterprise-wide software systems using disciplined development processes
• Implement integration plans and interface with testing teams to incorporate plans into the integration testing process
• Research, evaluate, recommend, and implement information technology that aligns with business needs and meets objectives
• Use holistic knowledge of all products in the information technology ecosystem to plan how new systems will be built and integrated
• Install, maintain, and perform configuration of infrastructure applications
• Review solutions to ensure alignment with customer objectives, organization guidelines/benchmarks and industry best practices
• Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers; serve as a coach and mentor
• Identify potential problems in design, quality, or operation and initiate corrective action
• Identify opportunities to effectively mitigate risk and improve performance and functionality
• Independently research and provide evidence related to IT audit questions and observations raised by Finance Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICFR) Team, Technology Risk Team, Internal Audit, and External Audit Teams.
• Provide IT support for critical processes including the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end tasks including the generation of year-end vendor 1099 files and reports.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Advanced experience with Oracle Applications particularly Oracle Cloud Fusion Financials (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Expense Management, Fixed Asset, Project Costing, and Cash Management) and Oracle Integration Cloud, and Cloud Infrastructure/Solutions
• Advanced experience in developing, modifying, and deploying BI Publisher Reports and OTBI (Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence) reports
• Advanced experience in Java, J2EE, and ADF based systems development
• Experience with integration development using Oracle Middleware solutions such SOA suite/ Fusion Middleware
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Data Conversion
• Knowledge in cloud migration and engineering cloud centric environments
• Experience in SQL (Oracle or MS SQL)
• Experience with Agile software development practices including SAFe, Scrum, JIRA, Peer Review, Git and CI/CD
• The position will require technical development skills and have thorough understanding of the development lifecycle, including software design, development, testing, and support of web applications
• Knowledge of discipline engineering principles, practices, and theories, and methods to identify and solve the highest complex problems and perform sophisticated analyses
• Knowledge and understanding of the end-to-end IT process, including architecture, design & engineering, implementation, and operations
• Troubleshooting skills and ability to identify root causes of issues and provide solutions
• Self-motivated and proactive, able to learn quickly and apply new concepts, tools and applications
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex system/integration problems through innovative solutions
• Advanced problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills
• Advanced skill applying innovative approaches to solve technical design issues
• Expert verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
  Some experience with private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Knowledge and/or understanding of Finance or Accounting
• Knowledge of banking/financial industry trends, products, and services
• Knowledge of Navy Federal products, services, programs, policies, and procedures
• Technical certifications for Oracle Cloud Applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure