Enterprise Applications Developer - Finance Systems (Software Developer-PeopleSoft 2) - Provisional

About the role

The Enterprise Applications Developer - Finance Systems will play a critical role in providing comprehensive technical support, maintenance, and continuous enhancement of the PeopleSoft Finance system, as well as its integrations with third-party platforms such as Jaggaer (CUNYbuy), the State Financial System (SFS), and the City Financial Management System (FMS).

This role requires a deep understanding of PeopleSoft Procure-to-Pay functionality, including Suppliers, Procurement Contracts, and related financial business processes.

Responsibilities

• Applies expertise, monitors and supports supplier and procurement integrations between CUNYfirst and third-party systems (Jaggaer, State and City Financial Systems), ensuring secure, timely, and accurate data exchange.
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues impacting finance and procurement operations, and monitors integrations for performance, scalability, and errors to ensure quick resolution and system reliability.
• Collaborates with the Application Support Vendor team to migrate fixes and enhancements from test to production, following change management and release protocols.
• Partners with CIS and Campus teams, and manages check printing configuration, ensuring compliance and implementing improvements that enhance reliability and reduce manual effort.
• Led and contributes to the conversion of master data from CUNYfirst to Workday, applying industry-standard data mapping, transformation, and validation techniques.
• Redesigns integrations for Workday using modern frameworks, APIs, and middleware to streamline workflows and improve maintainability; supports Workday integrations post go-live, providing expertise to monitoring, optimization, and issue resolution to maintain interoperability with PeopleSoft and external financial systems.
• Develops and maintains PeopleSoft components using PeopleTools and SQL, applying best practices in coding, performance tuning, and secure development; tests to validate PeopleSoft during upgrades and maintenance, coordinating with QA teams to ensure stable performance and minimal disruption.
• Works with business stakeholders to translate evolving requirements into effective, user-focused technical solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
• Ensures business continuity and compliance by implementing monitoring, failover, and audit-ready controls.
• Utilizes tools such as Tumbleweed, Control M, and FTP server to automate and monitor file transfers, batch jobs, and integrations for secure and reliable data exchange.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in full lifecycle PeopleSoft application development and implementation, including 4+ years supporting higher education, public sector, or multi-institutional environments.
• Extensive experience delivering and supporting PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM 9.2+) solutions using PeopleTools 8.58+, including design, development, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve production issues in financial processes using ticketing systems (e.g., ServiceNow) while minimizing business disruption.
• Advanced Proficiency and expertise with PeopleSoft integrations, including Jaggaer (CUNYbuy), State and City Financial Systems, financial institutions, and governmental agencies, leveraging Integration Broker, APIs, and secure file transfers.
• Demonstrated proficiency in PeopleSoft technical tools: Application Designer, PeopleCode, Application Engine, File Layouts, Workflow, Integration Broker, Component Interface, ExceltoCI, Data Mover, Process Scheduler, SQR, nVision, BI Publisher, and PS Query.
• Expertise in SQL and Oracle RDBMS, with proven experience in query optimization, performance tuning, and collaboration with DBAs to support high-volume financial operations.
• Hands-on experience applying FSCM bundles, patches, upgrades, and retrofits, with strong skills in impact analysis and regression testing.
• Experience coordinating with managed service providers on environment refreshes, cutovers, migrations, performance tuning, and incident management.
• Ability to design, develop, and support custom financial functionalities (e.g., procure-to-pay, PO printing, check printing) across complex, distributed business environments.
• Active contributor to ERP transformation initiatives (e.g., Workday), with experience in data mapping, conversion, integration redesign, and cloud migration planning.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and contribute to technical documentation and governance.