Solutions Architect, Finance

Job Description – Solutions Architect, Finance (226 Days) (RTP) Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and implements programs and systems to address the needs of the organization and integrates with the district’s current IT environment.
• Define product requirements and create high-level architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality, and integration with existing systems/platforms.
• Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows. Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from other business and IT strategies.
• Direct or indirect involvement in the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of Information Technology within the environment.
• Build employee knowledge and skills in specific areas of expertise.
• Limit choices available during the software development life cycle by choosing a standard way of creating, defining, or choosing an application framework for the application development process.
• Recognize potential reuse in the organization or in the application by observing and understanding the broader system environment, creating the component design having knowledge of other applications in the organization.
• Analyze, design, develop, maintain, monitor and support complex applications within the Finance/Procurement environment and implement robust, maintainable solutions that meet the established business requirements.
• Grasp the functions of each component within the application and understand the interactions and dependencies among components.
• Perform or assist in debugging, troubleshooting and resolving application and data integrity issues.
• Develop new approaches to complex design problems and communicate concepts to developers.
• Serve as project lead by overseeing workload and resource capacity while acting as the primary liaison between the development team and business stakeholders.
• Responsible for adherence to ITIL standards or other IT development methodology and standards.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Seven years of experience in designing software applications based upon analysis of the user requirements.
• Five years of experience in Oracle APEX application development.
• Knowledge and experience in at least two of the following areas:
  • Oracle R12 with deep expertise in two or more of the following modules: HR, Payroll, Self Service, Benefits, Labor Distribution, Time and Labor, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Projects/Grants, Public Sector Budgeting, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Inventory, Accounts Receivable, Treasury, iExpense, iProcurement.
  • PL/SQL Developer, SQL, SQL Navigator, Developer 2000, Oracle Reports, Oracle Forms, Oracle XML Publisher, Oracle Alerts, Oracle Workflow, Data Loader, Shell Scripting, Application Express (APEX), UNIX.
• Excellent understanding of the software development process, including requirements analysis, testing, and deployment.
• Experience with web/App part development, site definitions, layouts, master pages, features, packages solutions, event handlers.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Deep knowledge of data integration, data modeling and optimization.
• Exceptional ability to diagnose and tune queries for performance.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
• Ability to build and understand overall framework and architecture and make recommendations to the management on next steps towards maturity.
• Ability to supervise and manage a technical team.