Senior Consultant

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 Principal Consultant position is primarily responsible to work on Oracle Utilities implementation, maintenance, support and testing projects for Oracle utilities clients.  Leveraging their prior knowledge in Java, OUAF, SQL and J2EE and Configuration Tools. This designer will work as part of team with other consultants, project and delivery managers.

KEY OBJECTIVE

(Outline key/overall objectives of the role)

1. Work as part of the project team responsible for creating external designs from business requirements and converting the external design into internal design specifications that will be used by developers to program the system.

Ensure customer satisfaction by delivering high quality programs within agreed budgets and time frames.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

(Outline specific tasks/responsibilities of the role) 

• Ensure that external designs comply with Global Delivery Center (GDC) quality standards before proceeding with internal design activities
• Liaise with external designers and participate with design walkthroughs; discuss/explain functional requirements and dissect into logical functional sections.
• Convert external designs into internal design specifications (pseudo code, edit rules, decision logic, etc.) that will be used by developers to program the system; varying the level of specification based on the skills of the proposed programming team to ensure that the idea is clearly understood by the Developer
• Reviewing system requirements, designs, and assist the development team with application integrations.

1. Develop/review detailed estimates for design and development phases based on functional requirements.
2. Work with the Project Manager to create a budget and project plan for the internal design, development, testing, and support effort.
3. Perform quality and functional reviews during the design and development phases 
4. Provide regular status reports to the Project Manager

1. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE and TRAINING

1. (Indicate the essential experience, qualifications and attributes required to perform this position effectively)

1. University degree in Engineering in IT, Computer Science, or any of its equivalents. Beach / BE / BS / MS preferred.
2. At least 8 years enterprise software design development experience, preferably in a multi-national organization
3. Working Knowledge of Oracle Utilities Products of Customer Care and Billing (CCB), Meter Data management (MDM), Mobile Workforce Management (MWM), Work and Asset management (WAM), Integration Stack, Network Management (NMS) or Outage management (OMS).
4. At least 5 years work experience in functional/technical designing using Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF)
5. At least 5 years work experience in java or groovy or OUAF configuration tool design and development. 
6. Technical capability in the areas of Java, J2EE, XML, SOA technologies, Oracle Database, SQL, Oracle XAI and experience with Building Custom Solutions using the tool stack is a plus.
7. Experience in detail level estimation of effort for development and testing of design solutions 
8. Ability to present technical information to fellow technical professionals as well as non-technical peers.
9. Understanding of Utilities domain business processes is a plus
10. Experience in Application Design and Development Methodology
11. Knowledge in any Customer Management and Billing System a plus
12. Experience in Object-oriented Design a plus
13. Strong written and spoken English communication skills.

Career Level - IC2