Sr Staff Data & Information Architect

Job Description Summary

As Senior Staff Data & Information Architect for GE's Oracle ERP platforms, you will own the architecture, reliability, performance, security, and lifecycle management of enterprise E-Business Suite database platforms. In this role, you will lead and mentor the Oracle EBS DBA vendor team while partnering with Application Operations, Product Development, and Infrastructure teams to deliver highly available, secure, and cost-effective EBS DBA services — continuously advancing best practices across the organization.

Job Description

Site Overview

Established in 2000, the John F. Welch Technology Center (JFWTC) in Bengaluru is our multidisciplinary research and engineering center. Engineers and scientists at JFWTC have contributed to hundreds of aviation patents, pioneering breakthroughs in engine technologies, advanced materials, and additive manufacturing.

Role Overview:

• The ideal candidate should be process oriented and have a collaborative working-style to help accelerate the implementation of the digital platforms supporting one of the world's largest, digital software businesses.
• Lead the EBS DBA support for critical ERP environments hosted in Oracle Cloud, supporting 24x7 global sites.
• Establish data governance and issue management processes.
• Partner with application operations, product development, and infrastructure teams to deliver highly available, secure, cost-effective EBS DBA services, advancing best practices and formulate strategy as related to data, analytics, and business metrics.
• Actively work with the Digital IT leadership group to implement enterprise data strategies.
• Actively work with cross functional teams, management and key stake holders to program manage, review progress and functional delivery on a regular committed basis.
• Responsible for deploying digital technology products as required to achieve business functionalities.
• Reduce operational cycle time and drive simplification through implementation to automation solutions
• Manage architecture and operations activates to ensure ERP compute infrastructure is used efficiently and produces a long – term business benefit.
• Maintain and apply current knowledge of information technology; keep abreast of new and emerging technologies and help determine if/how they can be used to add value to the business.
• Participate in budget management responsibilities and inputs info financial planning and other business activities.

Ideal Candidate:

• Ideal candidate should have minimum 15Years of experience in technical area and ands on experience as Oracle Application DBA

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, technology, Engineering and Math). A minimum of 15 years of professional experience in a technical area (Architecture, Software, or Information technology).
• 7 + years of “Hands-On” experience as Oracle Application DBA supporting infrastructure, database, and technology stack components for e-Business Suite platforms in a large global organization, including 5 years in leading DBA support/projects for large Oracle ERP.

Preferred Qualification

• Knowledge of Oracle EBS 12.2.3 or above including installations, configuration, Apps DBA, Sysadmin, PSU/CPU, patching, Backup/Restore/Cloning, Autonomous Database and EBS NextGen Technology stack.
• Experience of Oracle EBS Maximum Availability Architecture, Data archiving/re-org, Oracle IDCS, setting up Fusion Middle Ware for ECC/Demantra, DNS setups, Java certificates, encryption keys, SFTP setups.
• Experience with setting up EBS integrations like AppWorx, PPM, PVCS, Oracle Application Express.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure knowledge.
• Web Server expertise – Fusion Middleware 12 and 14 (EBS/Apex/IDCS Asserter/ECC/Demantra) – Server installation and Maintenance and Web Admin responsibilities.
• Custom Application Maintenance and management including installations, problem analysis, problem resolution, configuration, and performance tuning
• Experience with Unix shell and PL/SQL scripting for managing databases, applications, backups/restore/Clones

Business Acumen:

• Ability to establish credibility and influence Executives, technical and non-technical team members
• Demonstrate business acumen and the ability to apply technology solutions to solve business problems.
• Understanding of Change Management processes in a large IT environment
• Familiarity with iterative development methodologies

Personal Attributes:

• Energetic, technical innovator who will bring their expertise along with a keen drive to learn new technologies.
• Possess an operational mindset to build out processes to digitize operations
• Ability to hit tight deadlines and work under pressure
• Strong interpersonal skills: verbal, written and listening
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Demonstrated customer focus - evaluate decisions through the eyes of the customer.
• Build strong customer relationships and create processes with customer viewpoints.

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

Additional Information

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position