Senior Consultant

Job description

Intermediate consulting position operating independently with some assistance and guidance to provide quality work products to a project team or customer that comply with Oracle methodologies and practices. Performs standard duties and tasks with some variation to implement Oracle products and technology to meet customer specifications.

Standard assignments are accomplished without assistance by exercising independent judgment, within defined policies and processes, to deliver functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements.

2-5 years of overall experience in relevant functional or technical roles. Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience. Product or technical expertise relevant to practice focus. Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport with team members and clients. Ability to travel as needed.

Desired profile

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Oracle Quality Management System

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Technical Architect

Senior Consultant

ASAP

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Senior Consultant

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Oracle Utilities GBU

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LMS Manager

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 Utilities Overview

Oracle Utilities 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.

The India Delivery Center is part of the Oracle Utilities 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 Utilities Global Delivery Consulting group continues to improve its core delivery value proposition through the recruitment and development of top technical talent.



Role

This position offers very experienced Database and Applications administrators the opportunity to lead the analysis, planning, and execution of all primary administrative functions for both Production and Non-Production environments. Successful candidates will have a deep background in Oracle Database technology including RAC and will be accustomed to supporting 24X7 production and highly critical development environments. Prior responsibility for support of critical businessapplications including Financials or Manufacturing applications is necessary. Technical skills as well as written and verbal communication skills are equally important to this role. Previous exposure to Oracle Utilities applications including CC&B, MDM, MWM, and WAM is a plus, but not necessary for the role.

Responsibilities

· OracleDatabase Install, Upgrade, Patching and Configuration Oracle Database monitoring and Performance Tuning

· Change and Release Management, Business continuity and Capacity Planning

· Database backup,recovery, cloning and refreshes

· Provide status reports to project manager and /or Team Lead

· Conduct Technical Training initiatives and mentoring developers/technical consultants

· Create documentation for new and/or existing technical methodologies

· OEM expertise in installing, configuring and maintenance.

· Knowledge in Middleware administration including Weblogic, SOA and Golden Gate

· Create documentation for new and/or existing technical methodologies

· Oracle Utilities Application Installation, Administration and Maintenance experience is a plus but, not mandatory

· Analyze and implement Oracle Utilities product software notifications and updates

Requirements

· University degree in IT, Computer Science or any of its equivalents.

· Subject matter knowledge of relevant implementation responsibility

· 8 or more years experience in supporting production high-availability Oracle Database and RAC environment on a 24X7 basis is a plus

· 8 or more years experience in supporting 24/7 development environments

· 8 or more years experience with Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Red Hat/Oracle Linux

· In depth knowledge on OEM in installing the OEM, agents, monitoring , setting alerts and generating reports

· Proficient in capturing AWR reports, analyzing them and making performance improvement recommendations

· Working knowledge on ASM, NetApp storage and snap manager (SMO) for Oracle Databases is a plus

· At least two years development work experience in SQL

· Good understanding of relational database design and normalization

· Ability to read and understand data models

· Experience with ITIL Service Delivery and Service Support functions (Change Management, Release Management, Incident Management, Capacity Planning, etc.) is a plus

· At least 3-4 years Technical Architecture exposure

· Knowledge of the software development life cycle and methodology, a plus

· Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport with team members and clients

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