PA - Java Developer with Oracle Commerce Cloud experience - 811370

Role Summary

• Provides independent advanced analysis, design, development, enhancement, implementation, and support for complex software systems supporting PLCB’s Oracle-based digital platforms.
• Serves as subject matter expert (SME) for Oracle Commerce Cloud (OCC) and integrated subsystems powering FWGS.com, LOOP, and the Associate Portal.
• Delivers daily operational support for OCC, OIC (Oracle Integration Cloud), and extranet environments, ensuring stability, performance, and compliance.

Core Development Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, debugs, and maintains code across Oracle Commerce Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, and related Oracle systems.
• Performs individual and team-based development depending on project complexity.
• Analyzes existing codebases, identifies defects, and engineers solutions aligned with business requirements.
• Conducts developer-level testing, ensuring accuracy before promoting changes to UAT.
• Documents all work within code repositories and the agency’s change management system.

Enhancements, Integrations & Technical Evaluation

• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new products, integrations, and enhancements requested by the business or mandated by policy.
• Communicates technical findings to stakeholders with varying technical skill levels.
• Integrates new systems into the Oracle Suite, including required programming changes and configuration updates.

Code Review & Change Management

• Participates in and performs peer code reviews to ensure quality, consistency, and adherence to standards.
• Follows all agency Change Management guidelines, documenting changes and presenting them during review cycles.
• Produces level-of-effort (LOE) estimates for service requests and enhancements; presents estimates to IT leadership and business stakeholders for prioritization.

Testing & Environment Management

• Conducts internal team testing prior to promoting code to higher environments.
• Works with business users during UAT; resolves defects and retests until acceptance is achieved.
• Supports multiple non-production environments, ensuring they remain clean, stable, and properly synchronized.
• Progresses code and configuration changes through environments according to established procedures.

Operational Support & Troubleshooting

• Provides advanced troubleshooting, investigation, and debugging for issues logged by internal staff.
• Documents findings, proposed solutions, and remediation steps within ticketing systems.
• Performs maintenance activities, including job restarts, integration restarts, and system monitoring, often during off-hours.

Performance Monitoring & Optimization

• Monitors system performance and identifies operational deficiencies affecting program execution.
• Recommends and implements performance improvements and remedial actions to maintain acceptable system performance.

Security, Quality Assurance & Compliance

• Collaborates with IT staff to ensure proper backup, recovery, data security, error handling, and system controls.
• Adheres to bureau, Commonwealth, and industry standards, including:
• PCI compliance
• Security policies and procedures
• Ecommerce team standards
• Proper testing documentation across all environments
• Assists in establishing standards, guidelines, and customer service levels for PLCB web applications.

Documentation & Reporting

• Produces documentation for design decisions, requirements, LOE estimates, and related artifacts.
• Works with IT staff and business users to develop clear, accurate technical and functional documentation.
• Provides regular status reports to the group manager covering project progress, performance, training, and individual workload.

Additional Responsibilities

• Assists in evaluating and recommending software products to meet organizational and Commonwealth objectives.
• Serves as SME for systems, tools, processes, policies, and codebases; provides information when requested.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required/Desired Skills

System Years Experience

HTML/CSS 2-5

SQL 2-5

XML/JSON 2-5

JavaScript 2-5

Java 2-5

Oracle SQL Developer 0-2

Open Storefront Framework 2-5

DevOps 0-2

Visual Studio 0-2

MongoDB 2-5