Lead Oracle EBS Software Engineer - U.S. Remote Opportunity at Gartner, Inc. in Fort Myers, Florida

Job Description:

What makes Gartner a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, you'll be part of a team with a no-limits mindset that helps the world become smarter and more connected. We're the world's leading research and advisory company that steers clients toward the right decisions with business and technology insights they can't find anywhere else. Our associates enjoy a collaborative work environment with exceptional training and career development. If you like working with a curious, supportive, high-performing team, Gartner is the place for you. 

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What makes Gartner a GREAT fit for you?

When you join Gartner, you'll be part of a fast-growing team that helps the world become smarter and more connected. We are the leader in our industry, achieving double-digit growth year-over-year by helping clients make the right decisions with business and technology insights they can't find anywhere else. Our associates enjoy a collaborative work environment, exceptional training, career development as well as unlimited growth potential.

If you like working with the best, Gartner is where you want to be.

About this role:

Gartner is looking for a well-rounded, hands-on software engineering lead to join our effort to modernize our core financial systems. The candidate will be responsible for working with business leaders to understand requirements, then designing and building integrations and add-ons to Gartner's core financial platform (currently Oracle EBS). The ideal candidate will be someone who has worked closely with accounting professionals and has played a key role in implementing and enhancing accounting and other back-office solutions. Candidate should have demonstrable experience innovating with technology to meet business needs.

The Candidate should be an intellectually curious life-long learner with a resilient positive attitude and passion for innovation and growth. The Candidate will have an opportunity to be a central player in continuing Gartner's finance transformational journey as we upgrade, implement, and enhance best of breed of-the-shelf financial applications.

What you'll do:

• Implement, Administer, Maintain, and Support Financial applications and related systems core to Gartner's operational excellence.
  
  


• Design, Develop, Test, Implement and Maintain critical financial integrations, extensions, and add-ons to empower Gartner's continued growth.
  
  


• Work with business and technical teams to exceed internal customer expectations.
  
  


• Ensure system implementations meet the highest quality, security, and compliance standards
  
  


• Utilize best practices, standard procedures, and techniques to develop and configure applications.
  
  


• Maintain a positive and productive working relationship with internal customers and peers.
  
  


• Provide daily operational support for production systems including providing on-call support
  
  


• Write and maintain clear documentation that describes installation and operating procedures.
  
  


• Present applications, integrations, and prototypes for architectural guidance board review.
  
  


• Maintain a strong working hands-on knowledge of the programming languages and tools relevant to our systems.
  
  


• Conduct SDLC activities compliant with standard industry methods such as agile and waterfall, as well as the fundamentals of requirement specifications, design, coding and testing of business applications systems.
  
  


• Understand the interdependencies and interrelationships across the application architecture including applications not in their direct area of responsibility
  
  


• Analyze and interpret business requirements to define and develop technical requirements/specifications.
  
  


• Participate in technical design, contributing insights and ideas
  
  


• Successfully troubleshoot application problems independently or in a team setting.
  
  


• Comply with relevant corporate standards and policies
  
  


• Collaborate directly with offshore team members to coordinate work, complete development, mentor peers, and learn.
  
  


• Learn and navigate the structure and basic processes of the IT organization, including the roles of IT colleagues and the information and/or resources needed to achieve business goals.
  
  


• Learn and maintain a strong working knowledge of multiple business areas and the applications that support them
  
  


• Maintain a solid understanding of the industry and the products and services of Gartner and the value we provide our internal and external customers.
  
  

What you'll need:

• Typical candidates will possess 6+ years of relevant experience and BS in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent experience
  
  


• Has 6+ years Financial Systems (accounting packages/ERPs & related back-office applications) technology and functional experience.
  
  


• Must possess a basic understanding of typical core business accounting principles, practices, and terminology (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Intercompany Transactions, Collections processes, Procurement, Revenue Recognition, etc.)
  
  


• Demonstrated ability to design and develop financial system integrations and functionality with a major accounting package and/or ERP.
  
  


• Demonstrated recent and relevant writing software with a modern programming language such as Python, or Java.
  
  


• Demonstrated experience with data transmission and transformation technologies such as web services (SOAP or REST), as well as data encoding methods XML and/or EDI.
  
  


• Demonstrated experience developing strong complex SQL queries against a modern DBMS platform (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL)
  
  


• Experience building reports using an industry standard reporting tool (PowerBI, Business Objects, OBIEE, Discoverer, Essbase)
  
  


• Experience with application development methods utilizing AWS cloud technologies.
  
  

Exceptionally qualified candidates may also possess:

• Experience with Virtual Trader.
  
  


• Experience with PERL and shell scripting in Linux / Unix platform.
  
  


• Experience with Punchout (cXML) implementations.
  
  

What we offer:

In addition to an outstanding work environment with advancement potential, Gartner associates enjoy exceptional compensation and benefits, including:

• An upbeat, positive culture. Integrity, objectivity, collaboration, results and a no-limits mindset are central to our values
  
  


• Limitless growth. We work with you to help you meet your goals and advance within the company
  
  


• Encouragement to be innovative and challenge status quo
  
  


• Exposure to industry leading training and development
  
  


• Performance based recognition and rewards
  
  

Job Requisition ID:52292

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