IT Software Administrator, JDE

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Why join POOLCORP?
We offer a wealth of opportunities for career growth and advancement, with comprehensive training programs to support your success. As a company, we value integrity, trust, diversity, and innovation, and we strive to foster a family-oriented, hometown culture that is supported by our strong, stable, and growing business. Join us today and experience the best of both worlds!


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You want Benefits? You've got it! Our generous benefits package includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug coverage with Flexible Spending Accounts and Wellness Programs

• 401 (k) with generous company match

• 13 days of paid time off (PTO) & 8 Paid Holidays (NOTE: PTO increases with tenure!)

• 100% employer paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance

• Paid Parental Leave

• Fully Funded Tuition Education Programs

• Bonus Programs that include Employee Recognition and Referrals, Summer Madness, and Annual Performance

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Employee Discounts and much more!

What to Expect?

• The JDE Software Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day administration, configuration, and continuous improvement of the Oracle JD Edwards (JDE World 7.3) platform. This role combines deep Configurable Network Computing (CNC) expertise with hands-on functional support across core JDE modules, ensuring the ERP environment is stable, secure, performant, and aligned with business needs.

• The successful candidate will own the technical health of the JDE landscape - including object management, security, package builds, environment refreshes, and patching - while also partnering with finance, distribution, manufacturing, and supply-chain stakeholders to troubleshoot module issues and implement configuration changes that drive operational efficiency.

• This role requires the JDE Software Administrator to be on-site in Clearwater, Florida daily.

On a daily basis our JOB TITLE:

• Administer JD Edwards World A7.3 on a single IBM i (OS/400 / IBM i 7.x) LPAR; use JDE environments, library lists, and restricted-access profiles to isolate changes from production users.

• Manage JDE libraries, environments, and the Software Versions Repository (SVR) including version control, change tracking, and disciplined promotion of changes within the shared LPAR.

• Schedule, monitor, and troubleshoot batch jobs, sleeper jobs, and subsystem activity; manage job queues, output queues, and spool files.

• Maintain DREAM Writer versions, processing options, data selection, and data sequencing for standard and custom reports.

• Administer JDE World security: user profiles, group profiles, action code security, function key security, business unit security, and menu locks.

• Maintain segregation-of-duties (SoD) controls and produce evidence for SOX, internal audit, and external audit requests.

• Document all reports, queries, and configuration changes; follow change-control standards on the shared LPAR.

• Manage IBM i user profiles, authorization lists, and object authorities related to the JDE environment.

• Review and remediate audit findings; document control procedures and keep them current.

• Configure and support core JDE World modules including General Accounting (G/L), Accounts Payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Fixed Assets, Inventory Management, Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, Address Book, and Procurement.

• Maintain Automatic Accounting Instructions (AAIs), next numbers, user-defined codes (UDCs), vocabulary overrides, and constants.

• Partner with functional analysts to translate business requirements into JDE configuration, custom modifications, or report changes.

• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities including G/L integrity, batch posting, and period close routines.

• Note: This position is NOT responsible for RPG development. Program-level modifications are handled by a separate developer or vendor; the administrator partners with that resource to define requirements, test changes, and promote them.

• Design, build, and maintain custom reports and inquiries using World Writer and DREAM Writer (versions, processing options, data selection, and data sequencing); use CoolSpools to convert, distribute, and archive spool output as PDF, Excel, CSV, and email.

• Write and maintain queries against DB2 for IBM i using IBM Query/400 (WRKQRY), DB2 SQL (RUNSQLSTM, STRSQL), and ODBC/JDBC tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Access) to extract data for finance, operations, and audit consumers

• Partner with the DBA, Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams to ensure the JDE stack meets enterprise standards for performance, availability, and compliance.

• Engage with Oracle Support and third-party JDE partners on service requests, escalations, and roadmap planning.

• Participate in an on-call for production incidents and after-hours change windows.

• Customer-focused mindset with a track record of delivering reliable enterprise services.

• Strong ownership and accountability - able to drive issues to resolution across teams.

• Calm under pressure during production incidents and tight close windows.

• Comfortable balancing project work with break/fix support across multiple priorities.

• Continuous-improvement mindset; actively looks for ways to automate, standardize, and document.

• Standard business hours with occasional after-hours and weekend work for change windows, releases, and incident response.

• Participation in being on-call for production support.

• Prolonged periods working at a computer; occasional travel to other company locations as needed.

• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field - or equivalent professional experience.

• 5+ years of hands-on JD Edwards World 7.3 administration experience, with at least 3 years focused on CNC.

• Strong working knowledge of package build and deployment, security workbench, and UDO management.

• Proven experience supporting at least two JDE functional pillars (Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing, or Supply Chain).

• Working knowledge of change-management practices and IT controls (e.g., SOX, segregation of duties).

• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills - able to translate technical issues for business audiences.

Skills Preferred:

• Experience installing, setting up, configuring, and utilizing Fortra PowerTech Applications

• Experience leading a JDE Tools or Applications upgrade.

• Experience applying Oracle PTFs, cumulative updates, and IBM i PTFs.

• Discipline operating in a single-LPAR environment without separate test/dev partitions; comfortable applying compensating controls (library isolation, restricted profiles, after-hours testing, documented rollback).

• ITIL Foundation certification or equivalent service-management background.

Bilingual, Military, Military Spouses and Veteran applicants are strongly encouraged to apply! We understand the uniqueness of hiring military personnel and veterans and will support him/her in the time of duty or with the transition into new civilian professions.


All offers to external candidates for employment are contingent upon the successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background verifications before employment is finalized.


POOLCORP, including all its subsidiaries, is a drug-free company and Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. The Company understands, respects, and values diversity - unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions - while striving to be inclusive of all people. This commitment is critical to our success as a global company as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Hiring and promotional decisions are based solely on the qualifications required for the job to be filled.