OraclePeopleSoft DeveloperArchitect

What We Offer

The County of Ventura offers an attractive compensation and benefits package. Aside from our base salary range an employee with this position will also be eligible for the following:

• Educational Incentive An educational incentive of 2.5 for completion of an associate degree 3.5 for completion of a bachelors degree OR 5.0 for completion of a graduate degree.
• Flexible Workweek A compressed work schedule (e.g. 9/80 workweek) may be available for some positions.
• Vacation Accrual:Initially 14 days per year; after approximately five 5 years of service increasing to 19 days a year; after approximately 11 years increasing to 10 days per year and then increasing 1 day a year through 15 years of service; topping out at 26 days per year after approximately 20 years of service with a maximum accumulation of 400 hours
• Annual Leave Redemption Ability to cash in or redeem up to 100 of Annual Leave per year after using 80 hours in the preceding twelve months.
• Health Plans You are afforded an annual flexible credit allowance for purchasing medical dental and/or vision insurance from a group of authorized plans.
• Flexible Spending Accounts Pretax benefit towards eligible medical dental and vision care expenses.
• Pension Plan Participation in Countys defined benefit pension plan which has reciprocity with CalPERS.
• Holidays 12 paid days per year which includes a scheduled floating holiday.
• Additional Benefits Tuition Reimbursement Disability Plans Employee Assistance Program Life Insurance Wellness Program.

The Department

The Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) works with every Ventura County department/agency to provide the necessary technology infrastructure and consulting/contracting services to meet ongoing and emerging business needs including project management business process improvement applications support voice/data infrastructure data security threat and vulnerability/risk management and extended staffing.

The Position
Under general direction incumbents are responsible for planning leading and/or performing all aspects of the technical PeopleSoft infrastructure including instance/databases; application servers and process schedulers; patches upgrades and modification planning and implementation; migration and propagation; infrastructure stability and system integrity. Coordinate and enforce standards. May supervise a small technical team as part of a larger project.

Distinguishing Characteristics
This position differs from the Data Systems Architect in that it is specific to the maintenance of the PeopleSoft environment. The PeopleSoft Architect is responsible for leading and/or performing the daytoday management of the technical environment of all PeopleSoft systems including security setup for developers in the development environments. It differs from that of the PeopleSoft Analyst in that the Analyst may perform less complex analyses and does not have any supervisory functions assigned to it.

The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have recent technical experience in a Human Capital Management(HCM) ecosystem such as Oracle PeopleSoft applications including designing its architecture developing testing implementing and integrating with other applications and/or platforms. The candidate will be a team player a strong communicator and a detailed business analyst with technical skills and an appetite for learning new technologies and highlevel customer support skills.

The PeopleSoft Architect position is represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and is eligible for overtime compensation.

Duties may include but are not limited to the following:

• Interact with user department personnel to assess and analyze their needs.

• Advise users on the feasibility alternatives cost and timing of modifying developing or implementing new software functionality.

• Develop and define system requirements to include system and program specification project timetables task assignments and testing criteria.

• Code test and refine computer programs. Develop and update system subsystems and operation documentation.

• Coordinate installation maintenance and upgrades of support software and thirdparty products (such as WebLogic Tuxedo SQR etc. with UNIX system support).

• Assist with production problems and troubleshoot technical issues.

• Provide timely customer support.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

These are entrance requirements to the examination process and assure neither continuance in the process nor placement on an eligible list.

• Ability to travel within Ventura County to conduct studies or troubleshoot;
• Ability to work long hours to resolve production problems or meet project deadlines;
• Ability to work nights weekends and holidays on an oncall basis;

• Possession of or ability to obtain a valid California driver license

• Excellent written communication skills must be demonstrated in the completion of the employment application and supplemental questionnaire.

• Oracle PeopleSoft University certification.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft functional and technical knowledge related to HCM systems
• Experience with PeopleSoft tools and PUM upgrades.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Thorough knowledge of:

• Application deployment cycle;
• Creating modifying and maintaining application packages;
• UNIX
• Windows Server facilities

Knowledge of:

• HCM application development technologies preferable in an Oracle environment (PeopleCode PeopleTools Application Designer Application Engine SQL scripting)
• Web server fundamentals;

Comprehensive ability to:

• Analyze complex procedures/data and develop logical conclusions;
• Develop plans and achieve objectives
• Participate in the analysis programming testing and/or implementation of the HCM system and provides lead technical direction to staff;
• Gain knowledge of clients (oracle) database and its current and potential uses prepare system and program documents and handbooks;
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing;
• Maintain cooperative working relationships with others.

FINAL FILING DATE:Continuous and may close at any time; therefore apply as soon as possible if you are interested. Your application must be received by the County of Ventura Human Resources in Ventura California no later than5:00 p.m. on the closing date.

To apply online please refer to our website atwww.ventura/jobs. If you prefer to fill out a paper application form please callfor application materials and submit them to County of Ventura Human Resources 800 South Victoria Avenue L1970 Ventura CA 93009.

Note to Applicants:Sufficient information must be provided under the Education/Work experience portion of the application and supplemental questionnaire to thoroughly and accurately demonstrate your qualifications in order to determine eligibility. A resume may be attached to supplement your responses in the abovereferenced sections; however it may not be submitted in lieu of the application.

INFORMATION FOR TRANSFER CANDIDATES:If presently permanently employed in another merit or civil service public agency/entity in the same or substantively similar position as is advertised and if appointed to that position by successful performance in a merit or civil service style examination then appointment by Lateral Transfer may be possible. If interested please clickhere for additional information.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONNAIRE qualifying
All applicants are required to complete and submit the questionnaire for this examination at the time of filing. The supplemental questionnaire may be used throughout the examination process to assist in determining each applicants qualifications and acceptability for the position. Failure to complete and submit the questionnaire may result in the application being removed from consideration.

APPLICATION EVALUATION qualifying
All applications will be reviewed to determine whether or not the stated requirements are met. Those individuals meeting the stated requirements will be invited to continue to the next step in the examination process.

TRAINING & EXPERIENCE EVALUATION:

A Training and Experience Evaluation (T&E) is a structured evaluation of the job application materials submitted by a candidate including the written responses to the supplemental questionnaire. The T&E is NOT a determination of whether the candidate meets the stated requirements; rather the T&E is one method for determining who are the better qualified among those who have shown that they meet the stated requirements. In a T&E applications are either scored or rank ordered according to criteria that most closely meet the business needs of the department. Candidates are typically scored/ranked in relation to one another; consequently when the pool of candidates is exceptionally strong many qualified candidates may receive a score or rank which is moderate or even low resulting in them not being advanced in the process.