Systems Analyst II

Description:

Client is currently in search of an Oracle Global Data Warehouse, Senior Analyst to join the Global Information Systems (GIS) organization at the *** Corporate Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
In this role you will act as a liaison to ***'s businesses and various customer groups as well as coordinate and lead the offshore teams in the support of the Oracle Global Data Warehouse which enables reporting consistency across Oracle, Hyperion, and Microsoft SQL Server / Power BI analytical applications that serve multiple finance and procurement functions.
Your responsibilities will include investigating and resolving support issues, championing process improvements, coordinating technical work and support efforts across various infrastructure and application support teams.
Major activities/Key challenges:
• Demonstrate fundamental understanding of business applications, processes, and technology.
• Establish and maintain an effective working relationship across the organization, with leadership, customers, and 3rd party vendors.
• Oversee the deployment of customizations and enhancement requests and provide guidance to the developer teams. Ensure that all system development, change control standards and compliance processes are followed.
• Coordinate and assist in investigating and resolving support issues, technical work across various infrastructure and application support teams.
• Participate in and support system upgrades, deployments, and technology expansions.
• Preserve and improve the cybersecurity posture by keeping the applications and their infrastructure up to date.
• Manage small to large-scale projects working with stakeholders to - plan requirements, manage and track project schedules, monitor budgets, identify risks, and communicate clearly with partners from across the company.
• Lead the discovery, planning and implementation of process improvements in individual or cross-functional areas of responsibilities for continuous optimization of support and testing
• Collaborate with IT Business Architect to define and maintain application roadmaps.
• Maintain ITIL artifacts (CMDB and support KB articles), architecture diagrams, audit, disaster recovery and various support documentations.
• Pursue continuous learning consistent with the movement in the job requirements and changes in technology.

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of 5 (five) years of experience in Information Technology
• Strong proficiency in writing and executing SQL
• Working Knowledge of Data Warehousing, ETL processes and Data Security concepts
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 2+ years prior experience of supporting Data Warehousing solutions
• Exposure or working knowledge of Oracle ERP modules - Finance, Project Accounting, Procurement, Order-to-Cash, and Procure-to-Pay
• Experience with Oracle R12 (12.2), Oracle 19c databases, PL/SQL, SQL, Linux
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to interact with customers, vendors, other IT professionals, and management.
• Solid understanding of the software development life cycle
• Out of the box thinking to evaluate alternate solutions
• Solid leadership and organizational skills
• Experience of working as a member of project team