Senior Oracle Application Developer

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet need. With each new discovery and experimental drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases.

Gilead’s primary areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver disease and serious cardiovascular, cardiopoulmonary and respiratory conditions.

Our portfolio of 12 marketed products includes a number of category firsts and market leaders, including Atripla® (efavirenz 600 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/ tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg) – the first single-tablet regimen for HIV infection. Gilead has recently made significant investments into the Cardio-Pulmonary and Respiratory disease and markets Letairis® for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Ranexa® for Chronic Angina. Gilead’s pipeline in these areas includes products for patients suffering from Cystic Fibrosis, resistant hypertension as well as a variety of other conditions.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a fast paced, high performance IT team that is focussed on the implementation of the Oracle ERP suite.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to undertake the following:

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

Be a key player in the translation and/or design of functional requirements into technical designs within the Oracle system.
Develop/maintain Oracle Financials custom code and interfaces to Oracle Forms-based applications in accordance with business requirements;
Develop PL/SQL packages, procedures, and functions, triggered from UI events or database triggers, to implement complex business logic;
Utilize and apply other Oracle development tools such as Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Workflow Builder, and the OA Framework.
Work with Business Analysts and internal customers to identify business requirements;
Document all technical designs as well as comment or annotate actual development product (code) according to the company’s IT documentation standards.
Be responsible for complete unit testing and integration testing with other custom components and the larger Oracle application.
Provide the setups in the Oracle application necessary to deploy and maintain developed components.
Participate in and adhere to the code management process, including use of source-code control utilities and facilitation of migration of code across multiple Oracle instances.
Understand and apply application tuning techniques to improve code performance.
Understand and apply System Development Life Cycle methodologies;
Understand and apply Change and Configuration Management policies and procedures;
Identify design limitations and mitigate technology-based business risk;
Mentor and develop junior staff
Perform other duties as may be assigned by management.

Requirements

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

8+ years IT experience
5+ years Oracle Applications Development experience.
Worked on 2+ Oracle implementations & Oracle 12 experience
Strong Oracle Development Tools experience; PL/SQL, Java, and JSP, JDeveloper, Developer 6i/9i, Forms 6i/9i, Reports 6i/9i, Workflow Builder, Oracle ADF
Solid Knowledge of Procurement-to-Pay model and Order-to-cash model.
Custom development experience in Reports, Interfaces, Customizations and Extensions
Implementation and configuration experience with Oracle 12 Apps
Participated in all phases of Oracle implementation, including Requirements, Design, Build, Testing, Deployment
OA Framework and Forms Personalization’s
In Depth knowledge Oracle Manufacturing, Oracle Order Management, Oracle Financials Ability to perform Gap and Issue Resolution.
Ability to work directly with business partners and end users to generate consensus around technical directions.
Ability to analyze complex business problems and evaluate solutions
Ability to translate complex technical issue into business terms.
Excellent analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
Must think ahead strategically and must be able to weigh and decide between implementing new oracle ERP functionality and custom development.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, Engineering or related field
International experience is a plus.
Biopharmaceutical experience is a plus.

Additionally the following skills & experience would be a plus:

Master Scheduling / MRP
Project costing / accounting.
Oracle Projects, Oracle contracts, Oracle Fixed assets or similar systems.
Oracle Fusion Middleware, SOA, BPEL
EDI