Data Engineer - Oracle Application Labs

 

Oracle Applications Labs (OAL) runs the Oracle software that runs Oracle. OAL is responsible for implementing, running, and improving nearly all of Oracle's Enterprise Applications\: CRM, HCM, Financials, SCM, you name it. We use Oracle's own real-life business requirements as a "test bed" for innovation. We often race out ahead of standard product and build extensions and custom applications to meet the needs of our 135,000-employee, Fortune 100 company. Once proven, our ideas and innovations quickly find their way back into core product. We also ensure that Oracle is always Oracle’s best reference for our enterprise applications, and provide the field-facing demo scripts, systems, and know-how to Oracle's sales force.

 

We are currently looking for experienced data engineers to join our OAL technology team and use the latest technologies to evolve and improve the way data is moved, transformed, analyzed and managed in Oracle's internal systems. 

 

Required Qualifications\:

•  BS or MS degree in computer science, or equivalent
•  Software Tools\: Oracle Database, Kafka
•  Software Languages\: Java / Groovy, Python, SQL
•  Experience with the following types of projects\:
• ETL / Data Engineering / Data Pipelines
• Continuous Integration / Delivery including test automation
• Development on Cloud - any platform (Oracle, AWS, Azure…)

Skills/Experience\:

• Able to communicate difficult problems and complex solutions clearly and effectively
• Excellent analytic and problem solving ability
• Ability to thrive within a globally distributed engineering team 
• Quick learner and ability to teach/mentor others
• Self motivated with ability to prioritize and multi-task

Technical Experience (any of the following would be an advantage)\:

•  Oracle Data Integration / DIPC, Oracle Golden Gate
•  Spark, Flink, Hive, Impala, Kudu
•  Gradle
•  Terraform, Ansible, Chef or Puppet
•  Kubernetes, Docker
•  Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Search

Detailed Job Description

 

Oracle Application Labs (OAL) are looking for candidates to join the BI Architecture team to develop, support and operate the data replication and integration applications, platform and tools for Oracle's internal systems and cloud data warehouse. This will include working as part of a global team in all areas of the software delivery cycle from conception, design and implementation of new functional or technical features through to production support, monitoring and scale-out.

 

Key responsibilities will be\:

• Continuous Improvement of OAL’s data applications, platform and tools, including
• Using Oracle’s Cloud platform and services at scale, e.g. Autonomous Data Warehouse, Oracle Object Store
• Improving build, test and deployment automation
• Improving monitoring and alerting
• Contributing proposals for new platform features

• Production Operations of data engineering processes and pipelines
• Assisting OAL operations team with bug triage and maintenance
• Performance, Scalability and Reliability engineering

•  Application Development support     
• Advising and assisting OAL and other analytics application development teams in using the data platform and tools 
• Creating development standards and guidelines and tests to maintain code quality

!|!Analyze, design develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for commercial or end user applications. Writes code, completes programming and performs testing and debugging of applications.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will analyze and integrate external customer specifications. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture. Build new products and development tools. Build and execute unit tests and unit test plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering to discuss major changes to functionality.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).!|!