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Senior PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Administrator
Job in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listed on 2026-09-09
Listing for:
University of Chicago
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-09
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Administrator, IT Support
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Provides strategic leadership and direction for the administration, installation, configuration, and lifecycle management of all People Soft Campus Solutions environments.
- Oversees planning and implementation of all application patches, and upgrades including People Tools and PUM images, ensuring enterprise alignment and minimizing downtime across all instances.
- Directs and approves migration strategies for customizations and configuration changes between environments with a focus on risk mitigation and process improvement.
- Leads environment refreshes, database cloning processes, and ensures robust data integrity standards.
- Establishes, manages, and optimizes schedules for on-call and after-hours maintenance, ensuring service continuity and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Develops, enforces, and continuously improves configuration management and automation standards for production, QA, and non-production environments.
- Oversees nightly processing cycles and infrastructure management, ensuring operational excellence within rotational on-call frameworks.
- Champions adherence to ITIL, institutional change management, and governance protocols.
- Initiates and maintains comprehensive system and process documentation, promoting knowledge sharing and audit readiness.
- Owns accountability for the overall health, performance, and high availability of the application portfolio.
- Designs and implements proactive monitoring solutions; analyzes system logs and metrics to predict, troubleshoot, and remediate performance bottlenecks, driving continuous optimization.
- Provides expert tier-3 support and technical guidance to functional and support teams.
- Architects, leads, and interprets application and infrastructure stress tests; manages escalations with third-party vendors and partners.
- Optimizes People Soft application, database, and server configurations, leading efforts to drive operational efficiencies.
- Serves as the primary escalation point and liaison for Oracle technical support, coordinating resolution of complex application performance, configuration, and upgrade challenges.
- Co-leads application security strategy development with the Application Security Administrator; assures compliance with system access, data governance, and security frameworks.
- Oversees cross-functional collaboration for scheduled and emergency support and maintenance activities with internal teams, including application development, infrastructure, database, storage, network, and identity management.
- Leads AIS business continuity and disaster recovery planning, coordinating testing and plan updates in partnership with IT Services and institutional stakeholders.
- Administers operating systems, maintains security, and implements backup procedures for the organization's information systems and peripheral equipment, such as servers, desktops, printers, and storage devices.
- Tracks compliance and maintains documentation for hardware, software, and service inventories for management reports.
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Preferred QualificationsEducation:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field.
- Extensive experience with tools and alternatives for managing and maintaining and troubleshooting application integrations with People Soft.
- Leading application administration for complex enterprise-level business systems, such as student information systems like People Soft Campus Solutions, human resource management systems, payroll systems, financial applications, or other institutional-critical platforms.
- Executing advanced system administration duties, including end-to-end software installation, configuration, system integration, data integrity verification, data reconciliation, patch and upgrade management, and troubleshooting for enterprise applications.
- Managing technical support operations for high-availability applications, ensuring minimal downtime, quick resolution of incidents, and effective escalation handling…
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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