PURPOSE STATEMENT Travelport is seeking an experienced Finance System Engineer , to design and support application in the Finance area, predominantly on the Oracle EBS, Concur & Orbit platforms.
This individual will report to the Finance ECS Delivery Manager and will work closely with both the Finance Technical Manager and the outsourced provider/TCS team members. As part of the Travelport team, he/she is expected to manage support incident, resolution of database related issues, maintenance activities, patching, tuning etc as part of a finance system engineer role. These responsibilities will be driven in JIRA for problem management, minor enhancements or major implementations.
Purpose & Key Responsibilities - Arrange & manage business requirements and documentation for problems, enhancements & projects
- Ensure Requirements have a definition of done (BDD / TDD) for success.
- Perform day to day application management and coordination with managed service provider(TCS) and IaaS provider (Hitachi).
- Ensure Architecture and Solution Review of changes
- Defines and refines Features and Stories in JIRA, working with Business partners and Delivery team.
- Applies expert knowledge of principles and concepts in guiding the development, design, and/or maintenance of Financial systems used at Travelport (Oracle EBS, Concur & Orbit)
- Understands impact on adjacent systems and long-term impact of decisions and recognizes importance of compliance with architectural direction.
- Generates ideas to improve overall system design and/or streamline delivery of product/system.
- Proactively contributes to compliance with standard and best practices within application delivery.
- Maintains awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, and drives adoption of software development engineering best practices eg: Agile working practices.
- Oversee testing of changes through to successful sign off from stakeholders.
- Agree deployment release content in JIRA & in co ordination with business users.
- Makes resource recommendation for the Delivery team needs, to ensure effective, efficient and timely delivery to commitments.
- Ensure proper disaster recovery procedures are in place and adhered to.
- Responsible for contribution and adherence to standards that ensure the integrity and security of the enterprise's data resources
- Provides direction and coaching to colleagues/team members/Outsourced Provider
- Develops/improves processes and direction, recommends and transfers knowledge.
Experience Summary - 5-7+ years relevant experience
- Proven experience with requirements gathering, configuration, implementation or support of Oracle EBS, Concur and/or Orbit systems
- Possess deep domain expertise and experience working across a group of related products/applications
- Experience in Quality Assurance, software development, project management, operations and other technical areas
- Strong Oracle R12 E-Business Suite experience.
- Worked in a Managed Service capacity using ITIL best practice.
- Database and Applications performance tuning knowledge.
Skills / Education - 4 years degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering or combination of experience and education
- 5-7+ years of experience in hands on delivery of financial systems projects - specifically experience of Oracle EBS Suite and BI Publisher.
Experience with following skills would be desirable. - Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 Upgrades
- Oracle PaaS / Oracle IaaS
- Oracle Access Manager / Single Sign-On
- Unix / Linux System Administration/ Oracle WebLogic
- Good demonstratable understanding of Finance processes and terminology to effectively engage Finance Stakeholders.
- Experience of Jira for Requirements/ Story management and work management tools
- Experience of supporting solutions delivery for highly complex projects
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate technical information in a clear and succinct manner
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel PowerPoint) Visio as applicable