Oracle Developer

About IT Services

IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving department, we focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students, and researchers.

Find out more about our organisation and values:

• IT Services: About us and ITS Practice Charter
• Benefits of working at The University of Manchester

The role

An opening has arisen for an Oracle Developer to join the Applications Support and Development team within IT Services. The role is an 18-month Fixed Term Contract, providing primarily Business As Usual support but potentially also crucial systems upgrade work as we transition the Oracle Finance system from 12.1.3 to 12.1.12.

The team is responsible for the development, maintenance & continuous improvement of critical business systems including Oracle eBusiness Suite (R12) Financials. The support and maintenance of the reporting platform, ancillary systems, and interfaces between them are also part of this role.

We are seeking a candidate with a detailed technical foundation of the eBusiness suite platform. PLSQL skills will form a key part of the role. A good working knowledge of AP, AR, GL, Projects, iProcurement, Purchasing, Inventory & EAM modules would be helpful. Knowledge and experience of Oracle Workflow Builder, Forms, Reports, reporting skills such as XML Publisher or Excel4Apps and interface/error handling are desirable. A successful candidate will join our established team of functional analysts and developers supporting our core applications.

The Developer role involves working with business users and IT colleagues to understand, define and develop fixes and solutions to business issues.

Essential Experience:

• Oracle eBusiness Suite Financials (12.1.x).
• Experience supporting a core Finance system.
• Excellent Oracle PL/SQL skills.

Desirable Experience:

• Resolution of incidents and change requests/working with customers.
• Understanding or experience of full software implementation cycle.
• Experience working with interfaces.
• Experience of CEMLIs/Oracle Application Extensions/Personalisation’s.
• Working with the following tools: Oracle Forms and Reports, Workflow Builder, XML Publisher, Excel4Apps, GitHub/TortoiseGit or other version control software, TOAD/SQL Developer.
• Working with Oracle documentation (OUM/AIM methodology).
• Experience working within a team.
• Ability to analyse and solve problems.
• Excellent communication skills.

When addressing the person specification criteria in your application for this role, please ensure you reference the specific role requirements above.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers, and more.

As an equal-opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit. Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here.

Blended working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting, and interviews:

Name: Michelle Connelly

Email: michelle.connelly@manchester.ac.uk 

General enquiries:

Email: recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk 

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home 

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

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