Oracle Corporation

Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle's product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure. Now, with Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.

 

Oracle Energy and Water Overview

Oracle Energy and Water delivers proven software applications that help utility companies of all types and sizes achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware, database technologies, as well as servers and storage. The software enables customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands and deliver on environmental conservation commitments.

 

This position is to remotely work supporting the Mexico Delivery Center, which is part of the Oracle Energy and Water Global Delivery Consulting group that partners with the regional consulting centers in delivering the high performance Utilities solutions that increase our customers’ competitiveness.  The delivery incorporates institutionalized methodologies in an offshore environment whereby world-class talent is developed through mature standards and processes.  The Oracle Energy and Water Global Delivery Consulting group continues to improve its core delivery value proposition through the recruitment and development of top technical talent.

Role:

 

KEY OBJECTIVE

• Work as part of the project team responsible for creating External Designs from business requirements and converting the External Design into Internal Design Specifications that will be used by Developers to program the system.
• Ensure customer satisfaction by delivering high quality programs within agreed budgets and time frames.

 

 

• Ensure that External Designs comply with Global Delivery Center entrance criteria before proceeding with Internal Design activities
• Liaise with External Designers and participate with design walkthroughs; discuss/explain functional requirements and dissect into logical functional sections.
• Convert External Designs into Internal Design Specifications (pseudo code, edit rules, decision logic, etc.) that will be used by Developers to program the system; varying the level of specification based on the skills of the proposed programming team to ensure that the idea is clearly understood by the Developer
• Reviewing system requirements, designs, and assist the development team with application integrations.

• Develop/review detailed estimates for design and development phases based on functional requirements.
• Work with the Project Manager to create a budget and project plan for the Internal Design, Development, Testing, and Support effort.
• Perform quality and functional reviews during the Design and Development phases
• Provide regular status reports to the Project Manager

 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE and TRAINING

• University degree in Engineering in IT, Computer Science, or any of its equivalents. Beach / BE / BS / MS preferred.
• At least eight (8) years enterprise software design development experience, preferably in a multi-national organization
• At least three (3) year work experience in functional/technical designing
• At least five (5) years work experience in java or groovy or java script design and development. 
• Technical capability in the areas of Java, J2EE, XML, SOA technologies, Oracle Database, SQL, Oracle XAI and experience with Building Custom Solutions using the tool stack is a plus.
• Experience in detail level estimation of effort for development and testing of design solutions
• Ability to present technical information to fellow technical professionals as well as non-technical peers.
• Knowledge of Oracle Utilities Products of Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF), Customer Care and Billing (CCB), Meter Data management (MDM), Mobile Workforce Management (MWM), Work and Asset management (WAM), Integration Stack, Network Management (NMS), Customer to Meter (C2M) or Outage management (OMS).
• Understanding of Utilities domain business processes is a plus
• Experience in Application Design and Development Methodology
• Knowledge in any Customer Management and Billing System a plus
• Experience in Object-oriented Design is a plus

Strong written and spoken English communication skills.

Junior consulting position for those who are continuing to develop their expertise. Receives general instruction on routine work and detailed instruction on new projects or assignments.

As a member of a project team, follows standard practices and procedures to analyze situations/data and provide quality work products to deliver functional and technical solutions on applications and technology installations. Work involves some problem solving with assistance and guidance in understanding and applying relevant Oracle methodologies and practices. Implements Oracle products and technology in various industries to meet customer specifications.

1-3 years of overall experience in relevant functional or technical roles. Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience. Product or technical expertise relevant to practice focus. Demonstrates competence in a minimum of one product or technology area. Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport with team members and clients. Ability to travel as needed.