Oracle PL/SQL Developer - CEDENT

Location: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote - Downtown Houston

• Open to candidates who would need to relocate (1-2 months to relocate but onsite for the first couple weeks)

Project Details: This senior Developer will be primarily responsible for design, development, maintenance, and enhancement of IT applications utilizing Oracle PL/SQL. Interfaces with clients at all organizational levels and takes business requirements and delivers technical work to yield productive products for end users. 

Must Have Skills:

• 5 + years of hands on Oracle Database Experience
  • Versions 11g and 12c 
  • TOAD/SQL Developer experience (tool to log into the database) 
• Experience with Java and hands on experience in advanced PL/SQL, developing PL/SQL  
• Operating Systems experience such as Linux, Unix and Windows 
• Familiar with SDLC Process 
• Ability to participate in multiple projects at the same time 

Soft Skills:

• Ability to work and communicate across various teams, both upstream and downstream - Great communication is important
• Team player
• Ability and want to participate in every life cycle of the development 

Nice to have skills:

• Oracle Fusion - HUGE PLUS
• Utilities Industry Knowledge/Experience

Education/Certification Requirements: 

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred 
• Training or certification on Java Application servers, cloud solutions and Oracle PL/SQL language - PLUS 

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Performs planning, design, development, testing, migration to production, and the maintenance of applications using Oracle and third-party tools.
• Experience writing complex queries, using advanced PL/SQL concepts and performance tuning. Assist in defect triage, impact analysis, resolution planning and implementation
• Analyzing and converting business requirements to technical requirements, followed by designing and implementing the solutions
• Experience in reviewing the Oracle ADDM and AWR reports and recommending query optimization based on the analysis
• Leverage Oracle 12C features to their fullest on a large-scale multi-terabyte system
• Assist Decision Support team members including DBAs, database developers, requirements analysts, and others, in understanding data and meeting user requirements
• Participate in project work groups with Subject Matter Experts and stakeholders to understand data specific needs
• Participate in performance tuning activities
• Provide production deployment and production support as needed
• Involved in all aspects of the software development life cycle; demonstrate abilities to learn both the business processes as well as new and existing technologies
• Work on sprint team in agile, rapid development and deployment environment.
• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to conduct research into software-related issues and products.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.