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• Enables the technical delivery of a set of projects.
• Works with the application teams to design, manage the acquisition, installation and configuration of the technical components of the solution, and manage the day-to-day operations of the local and deployed instances of the solution.
• Responsible for ensuring that infrastructure solutions adhere to technical standards.

Organizational Context:

Member of an infrastructure product engineering team reporting to an EngineeringDirector, extended member of software product engineering team.
Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with application teams to define, frame and capture business needs.
• Participate in the infrastructure design and selection process.
• Align customer needs to the evolution of the platform product roadmap.
• Oversee the diagnosis and correction of infrastructure problems.

• Provide internal analysis and support to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance.

• Conduct infrastructure performance and security assessments.
• Support the certification and accreditation of infrastructure on customer networks.
• Provide value-added solutions for business, both tactically and strategically.
• Lead customers to understand how current or envisioned processes align to industry best practice.
• Define processes, documentation and engineering diagrams for technical and operations support.
• Prioritize, complete and oversee projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.

• Responsible for the quality of deliverables in terms of the technical design, implementation, testing and adherence to technical compliance standards.
• Provide lead support and direction to the team responsible for the overall health and maintenance of all infrastructure assets.

Scope of Impact/Influence:

• Responsible for the infrastructure platform and supporting technology.
• Leads the design, build, enhancement and integration of infrastructure with AET.
• Plays an integral role in building and enhancing infrastructure in terms of robustness, scalability, availability and efficiency.
• Leadership accountable for team completing assigned tasks and delivery of quality work.

• 8+ years of experience with Systems Analysis/Programming, incorporating Design Methodology and Infrastructure Operations support or Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience as an Oracle Database Administrator.
• 5+ year experience with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 or later.
• Exadata database migration and administration expert.
• Extensive experience with system tuning, performance tuning and resource management on Exadata.
• Experience with other DBMS's (e.g., SQL Server, UDB, MySQL, Postgres) is a plus.
• Oracle EBS migration experience required.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud a definite plus
• Oracle APEX experience a definite plus
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge/Skills

• Specific technical experience working with one or more of the following areas:

• Oracle Engineered Systems including but not limited to: Exadata, Database Appliance and ZFS Appliance
• VMWare, Oracle VM, Unix, Citrix, Linux, Windows
• Experienced knowledge of one or more of the following:
  • Infrastructure and server theories, principles, and concepts
  • Application infrastructure and standards
  • Networking fundamentals
  • Storage management (i.e. SAN) design and support
  • Databases (i.e. IMS, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, etc.)
  • Middleware technologies (i.e. WebLogic)
• Experienced knowledge using the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, designing, building, testing, configuring and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Core knowledge of platform delivery methodology (Agile, Scrum, Agile XP, Test-Driven Development, Waterfall, etc.)

Core Competencies Technical

• Agile Practices
• Emerging Technologies
• Programming Languages and Frameworks
• Programming/Software Development
• SDLC Methodologies and Practices
• System/Platform Domain Knowledge
• Systems Design
• Systems Installation/Decommissioning
• Systems Integration
• Testing

Functional

• Business Analysis
• Capacity Management
• Change Management
• Release and Deployment
• Requirements Definition and Management
• System Software

Leadership

• Adaptive Communication
• Analytical Thinking
• Coaching and Mentoring

Business

• Documentation & Technical Writing
• Industry and Company Knowledge
• Problem Solving
• Technology Industry Trends

Performance Amplifiers

• Adaptability
• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Continuous Improvement
• Growth Mindset
• Learning Agility
• Open Communication
• Servant Leadership

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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