Principal Application Developer

Position Summary:

The Principal Developer Oracle Fusion will play a pivotal role in driving the success of Ventura Foods’ Oracle Fusion initiatives across various tracks, like O2C (Order to Cash), S2P (Source to Pay), R2R (Record to Report), H2R (Hire to Retire), Idea to Market (PLM), Oil Value Chain - Custom built solution extending Oracle Fusion cloud. This role is responsible for the overall architecture of the ERP fusion platform, leading the implementation, supporting the operations, and ongoing optimization of the Oracle fusion platform cross track collaboration. The role also will be responsible for various customizations and extensions of the platform ensuring seamless integration with critical business functions to enable growth, efficiency, and operational excellence.

As a principal oracle fusion developer, you will be a technical lead, acting as both architect and hands-on developer, shaping scalable and innovative solutions that advance our business functions like ordering, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, inventory management, finance, and HR capabilities. You will partner closely with vendor implementation teams to validate and guide solution design, while also mentoring internal developers to elevate technical excellence within the team. In this role, you will collaborate with business stakeholders and IT leaders to translate business needs into robust, efficient, and user-friendly Oracle solutions, ensuring the platform continuously delivers measurable business value.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Technical Solution Architecture & Development. Project Delivery & Governance:
  Responsible for technical solutions entire cycle delivery - technical analysis, design, documentation, build, validation, deployment and operational support.
  Architect and develop end-to-end Oracle fusion solutions across multiple modules / process cycles covering O2C, S2P, R2R, H2R areas.
  Design scalable and robust solutions, translating business needs into technical strategies.
  Build various CEMLI & RICE components of Oracle fusion platform, enabling enterprise business solutions.
• Technical Leadership & Governance:
  Provide technical direction, establish coding standards, perform peer reviews, and ensure architectural alignment.
  Define and manage build, deployment, and release strategies. Support automation in activities like Build & QA.
  Govern internal team deliverables and monitor vendor/partner implementations.
• Business Engagement & Requirements Translation:
  Partner with cross-functional teams (Commercial, Sales, Plant Operations, Manufacturing, Finance, Business and Technical teams) to understand business requirements.
  Translate complex business needs into technical solutions aligned with Oracle/ERP best practices.
  Collaborate with stakeholders to design user/business-centric features and optimize operations, workflows.
• Documentation, Compliance & Data Governance:
  Develop and maintain Architecture diagrams, technical solution designs, workflows, documentation, and training materials.
  Enforce data governance policies and ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Platform Operations & Optimization:
  Oversee platform administration, optimization, stability, and operational maintenance.
  Manage licenses, monitor system health, process standardization, and ensure scalability of the platform.
  Continuously enhance platform performance and user experience through proactive improvements.
  Assess platform quarterly/periodic releases and ensure timely upgrades (including intermediate patch sets).

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field (required).
• Implementation Experience: With Oracle Fusion implementations in the Manufacturing vertical, including at least two full-cycle implementation covering any (O2C, S2P, R2R, H2R, PLM) process areas. (required).
• ERP / Development Experience: 8+ years of experience with Oracle ERP solutions development, with strong understanding of platform functionality, cross-functional integrations, and process cycles. (required).
• Fusion Development Experience: 5+ years of development experience specifically on Oracle Fusion platform.(OIC, VBCS, FBDI, SQL/PLSQL, OTBI, SOAP/REST API's, Fusion Data Models Schemas). (required).
• UI Development Experience: Minimum of 1 Yr Redwood UI experience (required).
• Build & Release: Exposure to & ability to architect release automation and utilize build pipe lines. (preferred).
• Certifications: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations (preferred) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (preferred) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (preferred).

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