Senior Peoplesoft Developer

Posting number: 100553-260423

Department: Information Technology

Job classification: Senior PeopleSoft Developer

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: IT and Computers, Software

Summary

Under general supervision of the Information Technology (IT) Department’s PeopleSoft Technical Supervisor, designs, codes, tests, documents and maintains high quality modifications to the PeopleSoft Financials and HR applications in support of the SRPMIC general business.  Assists the PeopleSoft Technical Supervisor with establishing standards and techniques for improving the application development processes and monitors those processes to ensure compliance.  Identifies and utilizes software development Best Practices to meet internal and external customer requirements.  Maximizes the productivity of the project team and the maintainability of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise (PS) applications.  The Senior PeopleSoft Developer leads project activities such as application upgrades, application of payroll tax updates and implementation of new PS modules and functionality.  Provides mentoring and leadership to the PS Support staff.  This job class is treated as FLSA Exempt.

Distinguishing Features:  The Senior PeopleSoft Developer is distinguished from the PeopleSoft Developer II by providing senior level technical leadership and assuming responsibility for more complex and difficult PS application development tasks.  Assumes a mentoring role and helps the PeopleSoft Technical Supervisor coordinate development staff workflow.   Provides project management for development design and implementation tasks and accepts customer service challenges that have been elevated by the PS Support staff.

Essential Functions:  Essential functions may vary among positions and may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics.  This list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of tasks performed by all positions in this classification.

Examples of duties

1. Mentors the PS Application Development staff so they attain the technical and customer service skills along with experience necessary to perform independently and attain further career progression goals.

• Provides technical leadership, cooperation and solutions working with the PS Finance and HR project teams on data interface, messaging and information transfer issues.
• Provide senior technical knowledge to IT and the PS project team.

2. Helps coordinate the workflow of the PS Application Development staff.   Assists the PeopleSoft Technical Supervisor establish work unit performance standards and deliverables.

3. Assists with the definition, implementation and maintenance of the PS development and production architecture and environments.

4. Provides project management for PS technical design, development and maintenance.   Works cooperatively with PS and IT project teams to schedule and track tasks and complete duties.

5. Provides the PS Application Development group’s “Level III” customer support by assisting with, and resolving, customer-reported problems with the PS Financials and HR applications including, but not limited to, code bugs, deployment, user access, security and maintenance.

6. Establishes and adheres to PS and IT department security policies and procedures.

• Monitors compliance to PeopleSoft security policies by all departments.
• Updates SRPMIC data management system security policies as new Best Practices emerge and are adopted by the computer network.
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7. Provides overall production support for the PS Financial and HR applications including, but not limited to, troubleshooting, user interaction, vendor support, documentation and program coding.

8. Performs development functions that include the creation of custom reports, table/view creation, user/security management, PeopleCode design, batch processing program development, user-defined rules creation and other duties as assigned.

9. Assists the PeopleSoft Technical Supervisor with the technical direction for the PS Financial and HR project teams including setting priorities, coordinating and reporting of team activities.

• Provides periodic project status updates.

10. Coordinates with PeopleSoft Technical Supervisor to avoid duplication of effort and overstepping roles.

11. Performs other job-related duties as assigned by the PeopleSoft Technical Supervisor, PeopleSoft Manager, Assistant IT Director (Applications and PMO) or IT Director/CIO.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other Characteristics:

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