Oracle Technical Lead - Hyperion - Assistant Director

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About the Role

This role requires extensive Oracle expertise to support the Global Planning & Budgeting portfolio. EPM systems, including Hyperion Planning, Essbase, and FDM, represent more than 80% of the workload. You will work with Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) processes and solutions, including Planning, FDMEE, and Hyperion Financial Reporting, and apply a strong understanding of multidimensional concepts.

Responsibilities

• Translate detailed business requirements, design deliverables, and solution architecture into comprehensive technical specifications.
• Maintain effective and consistent communication within the team, with peers, leadership, and other IT groups; proactively raise issues as necessary.
• Produce high-quality application engineering deliverables in accordance with project timelines.
• Build and unit test projects to detailed design specifications.
• Provide thought leadership and technical guidance to engineering staff.
• Lead a team of developers across multiple locations and time zones.
• Develop and deliver technical systems while ensuring compliance with architectural principles, global product guidelines, and usability standards.
• Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining the project during transition to production.
• Adhere to Application Engineering methodologies, standards, and code reviews; provide feedback on these when appropriate.
• Identify potential points of contention for missed activities and notify project leadership of situations and remediation plans.
• Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects.
• Work closely with Application Engineering Team/Group Leads, Technical Leads, Solutions Delivery, Operations managers, and Peer Staff Engineers to coordinate project deliverables.
• Proactively identify and address application engineering strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Anticipate project issues before they occur, define problems, identify potential causes, and implement solutions.
• Apply judgment in implementing methodologies, processes, and practices to project requirements, including product design, information security, code maintainability, and reliability.
• Manage multiple technical challenges across assigned projects using strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.

Requirements

• More than 13 years of proven, hands-on experience gathering requirements and designing, developing, customizing, testing, and implementing Oracle Cloud services, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) IaaS/PaaS, Essbase databases, and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service within the Oracle EPM SaaS suite.
• Expertise with Oracle Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.x, FDMEE, and Hyperion Financial Reports.
• Exceptional understanding of multidimensional concepts and experience working on large, complex Essbase design and development.
• Expert-level experience in all areas of Essbase, such as outline design, member formula, Calc script, MaxL script, Report script, load rule, ASO, and BSO storage.
• Ability to create batch scripts using epmautomate, CLI, MAXL, and custom scripting using Rest-API, Groovy, and Java.
• Experience creating pipelines to trigger hourly, weekly, and nightly schedules.
• Proficiency in custom Groovy scripting for flex forms (EPBCS) and Groovy Business Rules to trigger jobs on OCI Essbase.
• Extensive experience developing Hyperion Forms, Task Lists, menus, and smart lists.
• Extensive experience implementing Oracle EPM solutions globally.
• Extensive business process experience in Financial Planning & Forecasting, including understanding of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation processes.
• Exposure to supporting budgeting activities like Annual budgets and forecasts.
• Clear understanding of a full lifecycle development in a Hyperion Planning environment, including design, development, and maintenance of Essbase databases.
• Experience in process/technical optimization of Hyperion Planning and Essbase-based processes.
• Proficiency in setting up Hyperion Planning environments, developing solutions, and migrating to production and non-production environments.
• Proficient in SQL Server, including writing complex stored procedures, schema design, and SSIS packages.
• Intermediate, firsthand experience with the Excel Essbase Add-in, Smart View VBA, and the Essbase API.
• Experience in Hyperion Financial Reporting and working in a Windows environment, including batch scripting.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years’ hands-on experience with Oracle EPM System, including Hyperion Planning, Essbase, and FDMEE.
• Prior experience with version 11.1.2.x Oracle EPM.
• Hyperion products certifications preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Essbase and Calc Scripts/Calc Manager.
• Strong ability to understand finance and accounting principles.
• Experience working with large Hyperion Application Development and support projects.
• Experience working with Global implementations of Oracle EPM.
• Solid interpersonal communication and organizational skills to operate as a contributing member of global technical teams.
• Strong technical skills in designing, developing, debugging, documenting, and implementing applications.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Agile development methodology.
• A degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Oracle Certifications preferred.

Location

This role is based in Alpharetta, GA, and requires availability during U.S. Eastern Time business hours.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $122,200 to $228,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State, and California (excluding Sacramento) is $146,700 to $259,700. Individual salaries are determined by factors including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including medical and dental coverage, pension, and 401(k) plans.
• Flexible vacation policy, allowing you to decide how much vacation time you need based on personal circumstances.
• Paid time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence to support well-being.

Schedule

This role follows a team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Most people in external, client-serving roles are expected to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project, or year.