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*****CANDIDATE MUST BE US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)***** We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) Administrator to join our dynamic team. This pivotal role involves leading the definition and design of complex Oracle Financial PaaS processes and functions, facilitating the development of sophisticated enterprise business solutions, and contributing to strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the robust, secure, and efficient operation of our Oracle PaaS environment, balancing functional requirements with service quality and adherence to enterprise policies and security standards. This role also involves providing leadership and mentorship in areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management, and business users. **Key Responsibilities:** + Lead the design and definition of complex Oracle Financial PaaS processes and functions. + Facilitate the development of advanced enterprise business solutions utilizing Oracle PaaS. + Contribute to enterprise strategy development, including opportunity identification and business innovation. + Select and ensure the effective application of appropriate design standards, methods, and tools. + Review application designs to ensure optimal technology selection, efficient resource utilization, and seamless system integration. + Ensure system architecture adheres to functional, service quality, security, and enterprise policy standards. + Participate in customer walkthroughs, technical reviews, problem resolution, and decision-making processes. + Provide leadership and mentorship to peers, developers, management, and business users on Oracle PaaS architecture and best practices. + Manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resources, including provisioning and maintaining compute, storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), and networking components (VCNs, subnets, NSGs, security lists). + Administer and configure Oracle PaaS services such as Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud, and Oracle FDI, ensuring secure and efficient operation. + Implement and manage Identity and Access Management (IAM) through IDCS or OCI IAM, including role setup, policies, single sign-on (SSO), and application/user provisioning. + Conduct proactive monitoring, performance tuning, and cost optimization of Oracle PaaS environments. + Implement and enforce security best practices, including encryption, patch management, vulnerability scanning, backup/recovery, access audits, Cloud Guard, and Data Safe, ensuring SOX compliance. + Provide frontline support for incident management, diagnosing and resolving platform issues, coordinating with IT teams and vendors, and documenting operational processes. + Develop and maintain automation scripts (Shell, Python) for streamlining tasks, ensuring peer review and version control. + Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, oversee licensing, manage change control, and develop recovery plans. + Collaborate effectively with developers, analysts, and security teams, and potentially mentor junior staff. **Core Skills and Experience:** + **Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Expertise:** Compute, Storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), Networking (VCNs, subnets, NSGs). + **Oracle PaaS Services:** Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), APEX, WebLogic. + **Database Administration:** Oracle Database administration and data transformation experience. + **Scripting & Automation:** Proficiency in Shell/Bash scripting and Python. Java experience is a plus. + **Security & Compliance:** IAM/Policy configuration, encryption, patching strategies, SOX compliance, and audit experience. + **APIs & Integrations:** Experience with REST APIs and FDI SOAP. + **Performance Optimization:** Proven ability in performance tuning, health checks, and cost tracking. + **Operational Excellence:** Strong skills in incident triaging, technical documentation, backup strategies, and disaster recovery. **ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES** + Assists in providing strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing less complex business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitates development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development. + Assists in specifying and designing less complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively. Reviews others' system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establishes policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options. Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements. + Assists in using appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures. Produces detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes. Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly. + Assists in selecting and using tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Identifies the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which less complex products or systems will operate. Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modifies existing process improvement approaches and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement. + Assists in ensuring the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems and serves as a technical or business resource for less complex project initiatives. + Communicates effectively with all levels of organization + Manages expectations of customers, partners and management + Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making + Interacts with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of less complex requirements for peers and other staff. + Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides advice regarding their application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area. + Provides leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by: + Preparing presentations on less complex issues on the area of expertise + Presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to Highmark's strategic direction. + Other duties as assigned or requested. **EDUCATION** **Required** + Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field **Substitutions** + 6 years of related experience in lieu of a 4 year degree **Preferred** + Master's Degree **EXPERIENCE** **Required** + None **Preferred** + Health insurance industry business knowledge **LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS** **Required** + None **Preferred** + Industry certifications **SKILLS** An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting. Current skill set are reviewed every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing business needs. + Skills: + IMS, DB2, Oracle and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing + COBAL, Visual Basic, C C++, SAS + Java/JavaScript Framework + PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML + Project Management Tools: + Waterfall + Agile + Certification in application areas such as: + Java Developer + DB2, Cogno, PEGA, Enterprise Architect(SCEA), Project Management **PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS** **Position Type** Office-based Teaches / trains others regularly Occasionally Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site Rarely Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees) Never Physical work site required Yes Lifting: up to 10 pounds Constantly Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds Occasionally Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds Never **_Disclaimer:_** _The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job._ **_Compliance Requirement_** _: This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies._ _As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company's Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy._ _Furthermore, it is every employee's responsibility to comply with the company's Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements._ **Pay Range Minimum:** $57,700.00 **Pay Range Maximum:** $107,800.00 _Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate's qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations. The displayed salary range does not reflect any geographic differential Highmark may apply for certain locations based upon comparative markets._ Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We endeavor to make this site accessible to any and all users. 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