Application Administrator - Oracle Fusion ERP

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Enterprise Application Administrator works in the Application Administration department of the Enterprise Technology Solutions (ETS) workgroup. This position will be accountable for ensuring business applications are available and performing optimally for the Oracle Fusion ERP platform. OES, part of the DPR Family of Companies, is a fast-paced supply and rental equipment company focused on the construction industry. The Enterprise Application Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day configuration, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, patching, and improvement of this platform and its associated applications.

This expert will use their knowledge of enterprise resource planning platforms to optimize the OES Resale Technology platform, including through customizations and reporting. They will work with structured data, metadata standards, and cloud delivery platforms like AWS or Azure in the platforms they support while ensuring data integrity across connected enterprise systems.

Additional responsibilities include providing Tier 2 and/or 3 support, performing break-fix activities, complex issue resolution, root cause analysis, and supporting projects involving enterprise and business applications. The Enterprise Application Administrator is a subject matter expert in multiple applications and holds vital technical, analytical, customer service, and problem-solving skills. They also collaborate with other teams to address strategic business issues involving applications.

Role Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for administering business applications in the resale technology stack for OES, including Oracle Fusion ERP and its associated integrations.
• Partner with project managers, business analysts, database and network administrators, and security engineers on the administration of applications.
• Analyze applications for function, features, data requirements, input requirements, output requirements, internal and external checks and controls, hardware and operating system environment and data interface capabilities.
• Plan, coordinate, and communicate changes, deployments, and upgrades of applications with stakeholders.
• Perform functional, performance, and smoke testing, installations, upgrades, and hotfix deployments of applications.
• Configure and support application interfaces for data integration with other applications or systems in the environment.
• Managing backups, storage, and integrity of application data or databases.
• Create, configure, and customize application reports.
• Managing user accounts and service accounts and associated roles and permissions.
• Provide Tier 2 and/or 3 support including investigating, resolving, and performing root cause analysis on incidents, and provide escalated support for service requests, inquiries, and problems.
• Championing best practices and standard operating procedures regarding the use of applications with end users in various parts of the company.
• Collaborating with program managers, technology leaders, business-side application owners, and other stakeholders on application capabilities, health, roadmaps, and strategies.
• Write and maintain documentation related to the application including end user instructions, operating procedures, knowledgebase articles, technical drawings, and system reference documentation.
• Partner with software vendors for escalated application support, reporting bugs, recommending features, reviewing release documentation, and other needs.

Role Requirements

Education

Required

• Associate's degree in information technology or related discipline. Experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

Desired

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or related discipline.
• Certification in Application Administration for one or more enterprise systems.
• Examples include (but are not limited to):
  • ERP systems (Acumatica® ERP Certified System Administrator, Oracle® ERP Cloud Certified Professional, Microsoft® 365 Certified Dynamics Administrator, etc.)
  • Other enterprise-class systems (Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert, Monday.com® Admin certified)

Knowledge & Experience

• Strong understanding of business processes and workflows as they relate to enterprise and business applications.
• Proven experience with administering ERP system permissions, ERP custom configurations, scheduled upgrades, and unscheduled system updates for bug fixes, hotfixes, or security patches.
• Familiarity with ERP out-of-the-box reporting tools, enterprise application integrations and interfaces, data conversions, and extensions.
• Vendor management skills, including monitoring vendor service level agreements and escalating support issues when needed.
• 2+ years' experience configuring, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and patching cloud-based enterprise and business applications at scale for a large organization.
• Strong understanding of application administration concepts including application architecture, user and service accounts; services, tasks, and jobs; and load balancing.
• Strong understanding of application deployment concepts including utilization of multiple application or system environments (development, testing, staging, and production), testing, and rollbacks.
• Strong understanding of information security concepts including confidentiality, integrity, availability, role-based access control (RBAC), principle of least privilege, auditing, logging, and permissions management.
• Familiarity with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices, tools, and processes such as: asset, access, incident, and problem management; change control; and service request fulfillment.

Work Conditions

• Prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing at a computer screen.
• Must be able to sit or stand for long periods of time.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• Occasional domestic travel, via airplane, will be required for meetings.

This is a hybrid role with most time being spent working from home. Attendance at important meetings and events at the local DPR office is required.

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

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