Application Developer III/PeopleSoft Administrator

County of Mecklenburg, NC•Charlotte, NC

About The Position

Our mission is to serve Mecklenburg County residents by helping them improve their lives and community. We are a growing team of talented and passionate IT professionals who are dedicated to delivering creative tools and innovative solutions to engage and serve more than 1 million County residents as well as 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. Provides support and configuration for packaged and custom Mecklenburg County applications. This position, with minimal supervision, is responsible for designing, coding, testing, correcting, and documenting 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 in this class is responsible for leading an application development team to deliver applications based on detailed specifications. The Application Developer III manages, maintains, and secures PeopleSoft applications (HCM) by handling installations, configurations, patching, and performance tuning of web servers, middleware (WebLogic/Tuxedo), and database connections. Will ensure high availability and support development teams with migrations. Responsibilities include creating database backups, preparing the database environment for open enrollment, tax updates and upgrades, working with PeopleSoft interfaces and other PeopleSoft administrative duties.

Requirements

Minimum of five years of programming experience
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
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
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
Contributing to Team Success: Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals
Building Partnerships: 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
Communication: 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
Collaboration: Works effectively and cooperatively with others; establishes and maintains good working relationships
Customer Focus: 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
Decision Making: 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
Driving for Results: 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
Managing Conflict: Deals effectively with others in an adversarial situation; uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people
Team Lead: Ability to lead development teams to complete project goals
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office
Experience with SQL Server Reporting Service

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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
Design and code reviews for components produced by self and other teams
Provide work estimates to project team and lead
Troubleshoot applications and make recommendations for improvement
Resource and mentor to lower-level staff
System Maintenance: Installing, configuring, patching (PUM/Image updates), and upgrading PeopleSoft application tools and infrastructure.
Environment Management: Performing refreshes, maintenance, and backups for production and non-production environments.
Performance Tuning: Monitoring and optimizing system performance.
Security & Compliance: Managing user profiles, security roles, permissions, and ensuring adherence to security policies.
Troubleshooting: Resolving application, middleware (WebLogic, Tuxedo), and connectivity issues.
Technical Support: Working with developers, DBA, and Server teams to facilitate application changes, migrations (using app designer), and incident resolution.
Configure and maintain web, application, batch, search and PUM servers/tiers
Work with Network team for web server certificates, firewall and load-balance for high availability
Monitor system performance and jobs running on the process monitor and resolving issues
Monitor interfaces with vendors and other applications