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Job Summary
Designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining high-quality Oracle APEX web application solutions for the life sciences industry.
Responsibilities
- Help maintain functional requirements by working closely with the responsible system owner, product owner, and business analysts.
- Create high-quality, accessible user interfaces from technical conception through to development & implementation.
- Customize and extend existing applications to meet evolving business requirements.
- Develop within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes ensuring that user interface standards, coding standards, and design principles are adhered to.
- Help to maintain/document development standards, with a key focus on APEX security guidelines and settings.
- Perform peer code reviews to enforce these development standards.
- Implement best practices for version control and deployment.
- Write efficient database code and collaborate with other developers and DBAs, to support the applications, ensuring data security, integrity, and performance.
- Use impact analysis techniques and test own changes to a high standard, to lessen the likelihood of issues reaching the testing phase.
- Be familiar with the tools and frameworks that the testing team use e.g., for test automation, accessibility testing, regression testing etc.
- Stay updated on industry trends and advancements in Oracle development, and in security guidelines e.g., OWASP, NIST.
- Encourage, mentor, and build the skills of junior developers.
- Take the initiative in identifying appropriate development opportunities.
- Support legacy systems and upgrades / data migrations.
Key Decisions made by APEX Developer
- Database and code design.
- Which APEX features to use to implement the functionality.
- Use of 'out of the box' functionality versus custom.
- Determine how the application will integrate with external services, APIs, and third-party libraries.
- UI/UX; layout and interaction decisions to create intuitive and user-friendly applications.
Experience & Educational Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience. 5+ years of directly related or relevant experience, preferably as a Senior Oracle Apex Developer
Skills & Knowledge:
- Autonomous, concentrated and high-quality work.
- Ability to work in a team.
- Sense of responsibility.
- Very good command of English.
- Proficient in Oracle database technologies, SQL, and PL/SQL.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
- Can accurately estimate the amount of time a development task will take to complete.
- Familiarity with REST web services.
- Can fix moderately complex bugs in familiar code.
- Can debug and fix basic bugs in unfamiliar code.
- Can independently build new code if provided with architectural assistance.
- Takes accountability for quality delivery and ongoing maintenance of the software.
- Understands how to and ensures the build of performant, scalable code.
- Adopts a security first approach, producing secure code.
What Cencora offers
Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
Full time
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Affiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
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Cencora is a leading pharmaceutical solutions organization centered on improving the lives of people and animals everywhere. With 46,000+ global team members, we have the opportunity to make a positive impact on healthcare in communities everywhere.
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