Details
Posted: 22-Jul-22
Location: Orlando, Florida
Type: Full Time
Salary: Based on experience
Categories:
Computer and Information Science
Years of Experience:
5 - 10
OUC - The Reliable One, an industry leader as the second largest municipal utility in Florida, is looking for a Solution Architect - Meter to Cash to be part of our growing team in the Information Technology department.
In this role, you will work with enterprise architecture, application and infrastructure teams to ensure an optimal, high level, conceptual design. Administers existing multi-tier application environment and all components. Day to day activities will include: instance creation, instance management, object and configuration migrations, patch installs, release and version management, and middleware (Weblogic) security set up.
OUC’s mission is to provide exceptional value to our customers and community by delivering sustainable and reliable services and solutions. Click here to learn more about what we do.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
- Minimum of minimum of ten (10) years of IT application experience with the understanding of functional process to include:
o Minimum three (3) years as a senior level systems administrator, programmer analyst, or business applications analyst or equivalent role demonstrating expertise in related tool of assignment (i.e. JD Edwards Enterprise One, Oracle Utilities, Documentum & SharePoint)
OUC offers a very competitive compensation and benefits package. Our Total Rewards package includes to cite a few:
- Competitive compensation
- Low cost medical, dental benefits, and paid life insurance premiums with no probationary period
- Retirement benefits include a cash balance account with employer matching along with a health reimbursement account
- Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Educational and professional assistance programs;
- Paid memberships in professional Associations;
- Paid conference and training opportunities
- Free downtown parking
- Hybrid/Remote (within state of Florida)
Click here to view our Benefits Summary.
Salary Range: (Based upon experience)
Location: “The Greenest Building in Downtown”- Reliable Plaza, Orlando FL
Please see below a complete job description for this role.
Job Purpose:
Works with enterprise architecture, application and infrastructure teams to ensure an optimal, high level, conceptual design. Administers existing multi-tier application environment and all components. Day to day activities will include: instance creation, instance management, object and configuration migrations, patch installs, release and version management, and middleware (Weblogic) security set up.
Serve as project liaison for Enterprise Application Solutions (area assigned) to ensure application current state is not negatively impacted with the project development/enhancements. This ensuring best practices of non-functional requirements are implemented such as back up, recovery, environment management, configuration, source control and monitoring, etc.
Primary Job Functions:
- Serve as a liaison between Enterprise Application Solutions and staff (both technical and functional) for the identification and resolution of issues for team applications;
- Serve as a liaison between OUC and the application vendors to address performance issues or problem analysis and see them through to resolution. Design and integrate systems to be used for all impacted applications;
- Develop and improve processes for team to follow with regard to problem triage, software development life cycle (SDLC), change management, and other IT processes in place to promote new/revised objects to all environments;
- Coordinate with application developers, database administrators, and management to develop, participate in, and enforce procedures for: Change control, communication of patches, upgrades, and changes to production;
- Perform complex multi-system research and provide resolution opportunities to ensure consistent and quality delivery of solutions while ensuring that the issue does not repeatedly arise;
- Design, build, and lead team to maintain the technical infrastructure in support of the application needs to ensure environments (instances) are available for projects and production;
- Plan and coordinate work to be perform for all impacted/assigned application deployments, application monitoring, server health monitoring, patch release planning, application service pack upgrades, framework services upgrades and performance tuning;
- Develop and maintain documentation regarding system functionality, performance benchmarks and system integration;
- Participate in OUC IT Change Control meetings, IT Standards meetings and other Process Improvement Initiatives;
- Mentor cross training opportunities for other IT team members to learn about application administration and application tool set;
- Serve as primary/lead contact for software vendors to report, track and resolve problems with their software products;
- Develops enterprise solutions that integrate across applications fostering the idea of reuse and patterns to allow for consistent methodologies;
- Evaluate and recommend design and development technology alternatives;
- Provide consulting and technical expertise to other members of the IT Department;
- Research, evaluate, and correct system design malfunctions;
- Handle scheduled on-call rotation responsibilities;
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements"
Education/ Certification/ Years of Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
- Minimum of minimum of ten (10) years of IT application experience with the understanding of functional process to include:
- Minimum three (3) years as a Senior level systems administrator, programmer analyst, or business applications analyst or equivalent role demonstrating expertise in related tool of assignment (i.e. JD Edwards Enterprise One, Oracle Utilities, Documentum & SharePoint)
- Valid Driver’s License
Technical Requirements:
- Working knowledge of all, but not limited to the following:
- Use of system trace tools to capture required technical logs;
- Data analysis for technical logs and system behavior;
- Change Management processes;
- Preparing technical documentation;
- Piloting new technologies (i.e. Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, wearable technology);
- Implementation of security controls;
- Best practices for service-oriented architecture and system integration
- Software Application (i.e. Oracle Enterprise Manager, SCOM, Solarwinds) Data extraction tools, BMC Footprints Tools, Operating Systems, Java, Databases, Visio, Back office systems (i.e. Elster, Meter Data Management, Exceleron, Web, IVR, CGI OMS/CAD, etc.)];
- System monitoring tools
- Familiarity with all, but not limited to the following:
- Related industry, organizational and departmental regulatory guidelines, best practices, and procedures;
- Ability to:
- Learn and obtain structured and ad hoc training on vendor products/releases (i.e. E1, ECMS, Oracle Utilities, CGI Suite;
- Develop system sizing profiles for technology purchase and system planning;
- Develop structured test scenarios, test cases, and perform accurate testing with documented results for non-functional requirements such as backup, recovery, and application restoration;
- Make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals, and compute rates, ratios, and percentages;
- Use Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) and standard office equipment (telephone, computer, copier, etc.).
OUC–The Reliable One is an Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed through responsible management policies to recruit, hire, promote, train, transfer, compensate, and administer all other personnel actions without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information and any other factor prohibited under applicable federal, state, and local civil rights laws, rules, and regulations.
EOE M/F/Vets/Disabled
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
- Minimum of minimum of ten (10) years of IT application experience with the understanding of functional process to include:
o Minimum three (3) years as a senior level systems administrator, programmer analyst, or business applications analyst or equivalent role demonstrating expertise in related tool of assignment (i.e. JD Edwards Enterprise One, Oracle Utilities, Documentum & SharePoint)
