Application Developer III/PeopleSoft Administrator

Salary Range: $108,468–$142,363. This is an exempt position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity. Our Mission: Serve Mecklenburg County residents by helping them improve their lives and community. We are a growing team of talented and passionate IT professionals dedicated to delivering creative tools and innovative solutions to engage and serve more than 1 million county residents and 6,000 employees. We provide business‑valued IT solutions and services that are flexible, engaging, and innovative to serve the residents of Mecklenburg County. Position Summary This position is the third level of the Application Developer series. It provides support and configuration for packaged and custom Mecklenburg County applications. With minimal supervision, the developer designs, codes, tests, corrects, and documents complex programs and scripts from agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well‑engineered result. Under the supervision of the Application Manager, the Application Developer leads an application development team to deliver applications based on detailed specifications. Essential Functions Design, code, test, deploy, maintain, enhance, and support county software systems. Work with business customers and IT business analysts in translating requirements into plans and specifications. Work in a team‑based environment, communicating effectively with all levels of staff and management. Identify business and system requirements. Produce design and other technical documentation. Conduct design and code reviews for components produced by self and other teams. Provide work estimates to the project team and lead. Troubleshoot applications and make recommendations for improvement. Resource and mentor lower‑level staff. Peoplesoft Administrator Responsibilities Installing, configuring, patching (PUM/Image updates), and upgrading PeopleSoft application tools and infrastructure. Performing refreshes, maintenance, and backups for production and non‑production environments. Monitoring and optimizing system performance. Managing user profiles, security roles, permissions, and ensuring adherence to security policies. Resolving application, middleware (WebLogic, Tuxedo), and connectivity issues. Working with developers, DBA, and server teams to facilitate application changes, migrations (using App Designer), and incident resolution. Configuring and maintaining web, application, batch, search and PUM servers/tiers. Working with the network team for web server certificates, firewall, and load‑balance for high availability. Monitoring system performance and jobs running on the process monitor and resolving issues. Monitoring interfaces with vendors and other applications. Minimum Qualifications Experience: Minimum of five years of programming experience. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science. Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted: Yes. Preferred Qualifications 4‑8 years of experience in PeopleSoft administration. Proficiency in PeopleSoft architecture, PeopleTools, WebLogic, Tuxedo, Oracle/SQL, and operating systems like Linux/Windows. Understanding of Change Assistant, PUM (PeopleSoft Update Manager), and SQL tuning. Knowledge of Cloud‑enabled infrastructure environments. Knowledge Current software development technologies, trends, and methodologies. Common software engineering design patterns. Significant experience with iterative and test‑driven development practices. Agile methodology. Azure DevOps. Skills Experience with source code control and software configuration management tools. Experience with relational database design and administration. Experience with JS libraries, HTML5, and CSS. Experience developing in a continuous integration environment using source code control, automated testing, and build automation. Experience with agile development practices. Abilities Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals. Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals. Clearly conveys information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the information provided. Works effectively and cooperatively with others; establishes and maintains good working relationships. Ensures that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafts and implements service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs. Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; compares data from different sources to draw conclusions; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences. Sets high goals for personal and group accomplishment; uses measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously works to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement. Deals effectively with others in an adversarial situation; uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people. Ability to lead development teams to complete project goals. Computer Skills Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office. Experience with SQL Server Reporting Service. Reasonable Accommodations Statement To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Disclaimer Statement This is not intended to be an all‑inclusive list of job‑related responsibilities, duties, skills, requirements or working conditions. Other duties may be assigned based on business need and the supervisor’s request. Mecklenburg County reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. Designated positions may be required to assist in emergency and/or disaster situations. #J-18808-Ljbffr Mecklenburg County