PeopleSoft Financials Technical Lead -Harrisburg, PA - Georgia IT Inc.

Harrisburg, PA

About the Job

PeopleSoft Financials Technical Lead
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Position Type: Contract with Right to Hire
Interview Process: typically hire from a phone interview
Rate: $70/hr on w2 only

Job Purpose & Summary
Responsible for directing development resources in the build or modification of Enterprise Commercial System Support using PeopleSoft Financials. Ensure standards and procedures are being followed to support, maintain and document applications. Provide leadership and planning for development resources. Ultimately responsible for the accomplishing of the design and production implementation.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Implementation Management (30%)

Create development project plan for development resources
Produce, publish and maintain Build documentation artifacts adhering to department protocol
Create and maintain application UML models and detailed technical design documents from which developers build applications.
Identify and communicate common design components or candidates for enterprise domain and services
Maintain published design documentation
Extensive research (e.g. trouble shoot issues, perform upgrades, remain current on new technology, and Tier 3 support) using internet, vendors, and coworkers.
Search application and database logs to debug applications, email flow, database corruption, and database performance issues
Write technical specifications for development resources, or provide specific direction to development resources that will enable them to write effective and efficient solution.
Define and delegate work to the developers
Coordinate and document code reviews
Coordinate with Networking and Server Administrators to prepare non-production and production environments for new or enhanced applications
Communicate implementation plan and design effectively both verbally and in writing to the development team members.

Technical & Process Expertise (20%)

Maintain product expertise and technical knowledge in PeopleSoft, DB2/UNIX, Advanced Interactive Executive (AIX), Windows, and LINUX
Provide PeopleSoft technical direction for emerging technologies and architectural changes to existing "in-house" technologies.
Lead the planning and coordination of PeopleSoft application and tools software installations and upgrades, patches, hot fixes, or maintenance to several commercial software products operating in a multiple platform environment, including but not limited to Advanced Interactive Executive (AIX), Windows, and LINUX.
Collaborate with vendors, system administrators, developers and other departments to support and complete a variety of tasks (e.g. design system configurations, support complicated client workstation issues, integrate systems with ECSS, produce high quality deliverables, correct system problems and etc.) across various test and production systems that are the most complex.
Plan and implement the most complex third party software installations, or maintenance in a UNIX/DB2 or Windows/SQL server client server environment.
Evaluate and provide guidance on scheduled upgrades to existing technologies.
Provide technical expertise and guidance for development team
Maintain inventory and documentation of solutions
Identify and maintain inventory of external system dependencies
Make recommendations to improve the development process / procedures
Participate in the review, setup and support of new application development projects/environments.
Make recommendations to improve toolsets available to the development team
Directly responsible for team development and deployment process and standards
Provide mentoring to the developers.
May sit on/or participate in industry specific user groups/or committees.
Required to stay current in industry specific knowledge.

Planning (10%)

Provide high level sizing estimates for business value assessments and product road mapping
Prepare work assignments for Developers
Develop project task lists and estimates for detailed work scheduling

Design Support (20%)

Collaborate with architects and designers on system and application design.
Collaborate with requirement analysts on system and application requirements.
Collaborate with the architect and data modeler on database design.
Work closely with architect to ensure best practices, performance and proper design are adhered to for specific Application Designer, PeopleCode, Application Engine, Application Package, and/or Structured Query Report projects.
Improve and monitor performance and plan for future expansion(s).
Plan, coordinate and implement security measures using Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG's) methodology.
Provide an architectural framework for development, maintenance, and enhancement efforts for specific commercial applications.
Understand the interactions between systems, applications and services within the environment and evaluate the impact of changes or additions to meet client needs most effectively.
Prepare high-level design presentations to achieve buy-in with teams that have conflicting priorities.
Troubleshoot the most complex system and application issues, finding root cause and develop resolutions.
Participate in design reviews to provide alternative approaches, design efficiencies and submit realistic expectations for timelines.

Testing (10%)

Conduct system testing prior to code going to Quality Assurance Testing
Support Quality testing and defect resolution
Coordinate and support Stress Testing
Coordinate and support Security Scan Testing

On Call Support (5%)

Provide on call support in support of application and system availability
Assist in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues causing the unavailability of applications for users
Document the cause and resolution of outages in the System Info databases

Non-Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Other (5%)

Perform any other duties and/or tasks that may be assigned to him/her on an as needed basis.

Qualifications

Education& Experience - Bachelor's degree computer science and six years of programming/system architecture or technical project lead experience or an equivalent combination of experience and training/ certification.
Knowledge and experience with PeopleSoft Financials preferably through Version 9.1 and PeopleTools 8.50.22 or higher
Design/development skill using PeopleSoft proprietary toolset including, but not limited to Application Designer, Application Engine, Component Interface, Integration Broker, PeopleCode (including Application Packages), Query Manager, and Upgrade Assistant
Ability to create and maintain application UML models and detailed technical design documents from which developers build applications.
Ability to understand the interactions between systems, applications and services within the environment and evaluate the impact of changes or additions to meet client needs most effectively.
Proficient with Relational Databases and query languages
Working knowledge of Software Development Tools and Programming Languages
Demonstrated Strong interpersonal, negotiating, and problem-solving skills
Understanding of software development practices and concepts
Must be able to work with common web technology and MS-Office file formats
Proficient with OO concepts and how they apply to design and architecture
Working knowledge of DB2 and SQL concepts.
Working knowledge of XML/XSLT
Working knowledge of source code management tools such as CVS, Subversion and Archiva

Preferred Qualifications

Coding and development experience with PeopleSoft HCM
Working knowledge and understanding of the student financial aid industry

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