Administrative Systems

The position will be reporting to the Manager of the Oracle Financials System Support group within Administrative Systems (AS). AS is part of GW University Information Technology (UIT) department managed by the Office of the CIO. This position requires a good combination of functional and technical knowledge of the Oracle Financials R12 E-business suite. A successful candidate will have demonstrated a track record of delivering quality solutions providing with the highest value to the University and solid technical expertise of several of the Oracle based Technology used in Oracle E-Business Suite. The candidate should have experience in performing production support activities including, and not limited to, evaluating Patches/Fixes, maintaining system configurations, running batch cycles, data cleanup, testing, filing/resolving service requests, and estimating enhancements. The Oracle Financials Support team is responsible for the support, maintenance, operations and upgrades of various Oracle E-Business Suite applications (Enterprise Asset Management, Inventory, BOM, Property Management), as well as other third party/custom financial applications and applications developed internally at Stanford using Oracle Application Express (APEX). The team is also responsible in maintaining software used in the Oracle Financials apps such as the Planning tool for Work Orders developed in Adobe Flex. The team also supports custom applications integration with other Oracle Financials Systems and Enterprise Data Warehousing. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and programming tools. • Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications. • Strong understanding of data design, architecture, relational databases, and data modeling. • Thorough understanding of all aspects of software development life cycle and quality control practices. • Ability to define and solve logical problems for highly technical applications. • Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical clients. • Demonstrated experience leading activities on structured team development projects. • Ability to select, adapt, and effectively use a variety of programming methods. • Ability to recognize and recommend needed changes in user and/or operations procedures. • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and methodologies.