Senior Consultant - Oracle Retail Consulting (ORC)

Overview:

Oracle Retail Consulting (ORC) is looking for a highly skilled Technical and Application Consultant, specialized in the areas of implementing and configuring Retail Planning (MFP, AP, IP, & CatMan) and Supply Chain (Forecasting, Allocation, Replenishment).  In this role, the Principal Consultant is part of the implementation team ensuring the successful delivery of our retail application solutions to clients. 

Accountabilities:

• Navigating complex client relationships and implementation challenges
• Aiding in the gathering of technical and configuration requirements related to Planning, Supply Chain, and Optimization retail software offerings with an understanding of how the client’s business process will integrate with our software application
• Translating business needs to technical and configuration solution design specifications while partnering with the Business Consultant to gather and document technical requirements
• Leading the translation of technical requirements to configuration, partnering with the Business Consultant, to gather requirements and complete the Application Requirements Package/Document
• Functioning as the primary point of contact for project team on technical and application tasks.
• Ensuring best practices are being followed, guiding other team resources to complete tasks according to plan
• Developing test cases and unit tests software and configuration against application and business specifications
• Estimating project effort once requirements are gathered including level of effort for customer work
• Building and Deploying Solutions in a SaaS environment
• Documenting designs for non-standard requirements as well as developing required project documentation
• Providing thought leadership and guidance on or validation of issues, action items, assumptions, questions, requirements during multiple phases of implementation, as well as recommending and providing best practices on business process design within the scope of the project and in accordance with the specific Oracle Retail solutions in use
• Providing guidance to teammates on developing materials to complete transition from implementation team to customer support, as well as providing strategic guidance to teammates on internal and external test strategy, plans and scripts; client training; User Acceptance Testing; and defect resolution, if necessary 
• Demonstrating excellent presentation and facilitation skills

Required Experience:

• Relevant software development experience, including a client-facing role
• Leading conceptual and detailed technical design sessions
• Client interfacing experience working at customer sites
• Expertise with large-scale software implementations including customization of products to meet client requirements
• Knowledge and experience in implementing solutions for on-premise or cloud environments
• Retail Planning (MFP, AP, IP, Category Management)
• Supply Chain (Forecasting, Allocation, & Replenishment)
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to take ownership and responsibility for all work
• Strong understanding of software development and implementation methodology
• Must be passionate about creating best-in-class solutions for Oracle Retail customers
• Functional expertise in retail planning and supply chain
• Java, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, JSON
• RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)
• Unix Shell Scripting

Desired Skills:

• Hands-on experience on RPAS (Retail Predictive Application Server)
• Retail Experience working with SaaS/Cloud solutions
• Retail industry software and data models experience
• Prior consulting experience strongly preferred
• Spark
• Oracle Application Express (APEX)
• RESTful services
• ETL

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related Information Technology degrees

Intermediate consulting position operating independently with some assistance and guidance to provide quality work products to a project team or customer that comply with Oracle methodologies and practices. Performs standard duties and tasks with some variation to implement Oracle products and technology to meet customer specifications.

Standard assignments are accomplished without assistance by exercising independent judgment, within defined policies and processes, to deliver functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements.

2-5 years of overall experience in relevant functional or technical roles. Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience. Product or technical expertise relevant to practice focus. Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport with team members and clients. Ability to travel as needed.

Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.