Senior Peoplesoft Administrator - Remote In Ca

Department Overview

The University of California's Digital Innovation & Technology (UC DigIT) department powers the digital ecosystem that supports UC's academic, research, and administrative mission. As the systemwide digital engine, UC DigIT transforms complex enterprise systems, infrastructure, and security services into inclusive and human-centered solutions designed to meet challenges at UC scale.

Support People Soft HCM 9.2 implementations hosted at AWS Cloud Services. The UC Office of the President is actively seeking a People Soft Administrator in senior position. The incumbent will have the ability to make a difference and have a real influence in how they can best manage and support this large implementation. The candidate understands HA (High availability), Load balancers, Oracle CPU patching, Tax‑updates, People Soft Tools and application upgrades (PUM cycles) and will drive annual Disaster recovery exercise of People Soft system by coordinating with all the teams involved and the stakeholders to ensure a successful DR drill.

The candidate will apply expert level skills in all aspects of People Soft administration and serve as a technical lead in implementing and supporting enterprise People Soft deployments. Core responsibilities include developing and implementing enterprise standards, policies, and best practices to manage and support People Soft HCM and their corresponding components (Candidate Gateway, Talent Acquisition and Management, Integration Broker, Tools and PUM upgrades etc.).

They will have proficiency in troubleshooting production performance issues that support our large end‑user population across multiple organizational units with high consequences of success or failure. Responsibilities may include establishing connectivity between Vendors and People Soft application, troubleshoot integration issues between People Soft Integration broker and vendor applications. May occasionally be required with notice to provide remote on‑call support during off hours.

Occasional travel may be required with notice.

35% Designs, analyzes and implements systems and develops solutions for critical issues. Manage and develop standards for best practices in People Soft. Support UCPath applications including HCM Payroll, People Soft recruiting module (Candidate gateway and TAM), Absent management. Develop, implement and maintain procedure to ensure reliable and secure Production environment. Work with vendors and UCOP technical staff in resolving problems. Initiates and drives implementation of new advanced Technologies used in the industry for efficient functioning of UC systems.

Researchers and complex problems. Defines scope and lays out plans for implementation of new projects initiated by business.

20% Manages and responds to service now requests, incidents and changes. Involves in problem management, log analysis and performance optimization of different hosted applications. Evaluates various hardware and software solutions to meet business requirements. Maximizes People Soft Performance by performing system analysis, monitoring and tuning; troubleshooting, escalating application issues problems to vendors, suggesting process improvements and helping in developing standardizations understands HA, Load balancers, Oracle CPU patching, Tax‑updates , People Soft Tools and application upgrades (PUM cycles) and will drive annual Disaster recovery exercise of People Soft system by coordinating with all the teams involved and the stakeholders to ensure a successful DR drill.

20% Understands People Soft refreshes and lead quarterly People Soft and ad‑hoc refresh efforts by coordinating with teams including Database, App dev, business, end users, database replication, release management and project teams Provides expert troubleshooting for isolating technical problems in People Soft Internet Architecture (PIA) including Oracle databases, Tuxedo Application Servers on Unix, Process Schedulers on both Unix and NT, Web Logic configuration, FTP servers, Elastic Search, Application Engine, Data Mover, SQR, Cobol, BI Publisher, Application…