Senior Oracle Developer

Senior Oracle Developer – Liverpool (Hybrid) - £55,000-£65,000 base + benefits 

All applicants must hold an active SC clearance.

My client is a global IT consultancy. They are looking for an experienced Oracle Developer to join a central government client of theirs. This service is critical to ensuring UK Citizens are kept safe.

In order to be successful within this role, you will need to have demonstrable experience in an Oracle support environment, being a pro-active person with software support and development skills.

Responsibilities:

• Help to solve difficult technical issues and defects
• Assist with DevOps tasks such as the maintenance of builds.
• Give input on architectural decisions for features and investigating and resolving issues with legacy code and practices.
• Mentor more junior members of staff
• Teach best practice through sharing new knowledge and improvements with other teams.

Essential skills:

• A good understanding of software testing principles
• Enthusiastic team participation with strong communication and the ability to multitask
• Systemic approach to problem solving
• Experience of development and/or support of Oracle PL/SQL modules in a large system
• Basic knowledge of Oracle Database Administration in a Development or Production role
• Exposure to Oracle 10g or later
• Knowledge of Oracle Weblogic, Oracle Service Bus or other Application Server technology
• In depth knowledge and experience in writing Oracle SQL statements and PL/SQL packages
• Exposure to Unix (the target is Sun Solaris, but any flavour of Unix or Linux is acceptable)
• Ability to collaborate with global engineering teams

Desirable skills:

• Previous use of source control with Subversion (SVN)
• Experience of deploying products onto enterprise systems
• Awareness of designing and building secure solutions
• Certification to ITIL foundation Performance Tuning of SQL and PL/SQL
• Advanced PL/SQL techniques (analytical functions, collection handling, bulk processing, objects, LOBs)
• Experience of Oracle partitioning
• Exposure to Oracle RAC, Oracle RMAN, Oracle Data Guard
   

Senior Oracle Developer – Liverpool (Hybrid) - £55,000-£65,000 base + benefits