As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.

As a Principal Support Engineer, you will offer strategic technical support to assure the highest level of customer satisfaction. A primary focus is to create/utilize automated technology and instrumentation to diagnose, document, and resolve/avoid customer issues. You are expected to be an expert member of the technical problem solving/problem avoidance team, routinely sought after to address extremely complex, critical customer issues. Services may be frequently provided by on-site customer visits.

Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. 7 years experience with Core products or eight years experience with Applications products, BS Computer Science/Management Information Systems/Science/ Engineering/Math/Physics/Chemistry with 3.0 GPA OR (for Applications) proven professional/ technical experience, i.e., demonstrating an understanding of Applications at a functional and technical level (preferably Oracle).

This position is for supporting Fusion Applications, particularly under the Supply Chain Management (Product Information Management, Order Management, Logistics, Planning, Manufacturing and Cost Management) and the Procurement pillars (Purchasing, Self-Service Procurement, Sourcing, Supplier Model, and Supplier Portal).

Candidate Background and experience

More than ten year’s implementation, support, consulting or development experience (or equivalent) in enterprise business application.

Exceptional diagnostic and troubleshooting ability and skilled in using industry standard tools and techniques.

Extensive experience monitoring, tuning and/or changing complex applications to optimize the product to perform to customer expectations.

Extensive experience with one or many aspects of Enterprise Business Application (Product knowledge, Log reading, Troubleshooting techniques etc).

Knowledge of networks, database configuration, server configuration, Web Server optimization load balancing hardware, SQL tuning and so on.

Knowledge of Java, C++, Groovy. Experience developing applications, sustaining engineering function - break / fix

Ability and attitude to assist junior members of the team in training on new products and technologies is highly desired.

Behavioral Skills (Required)

Ability to influence and gain cooperative relationships with wide range of audiences ranging from executives to technical specialists.

Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate very well both technically and functionally in highly escalated situations. Able to produce audience appropriate communication with executives, support personnel, and customer personnel in tense, escalated situations

Well-developed listening skills. Able to discern core issues in an environment where it may be difficult to determine what the cause is and what the symptom is.

Good organizational skills. Able to develop a coherent plan of action that meets everyone’s needs to resolve a given situation as quickly as possible. Also able to revise this plan as new data is obtained without appearing that there was no plan.

Ability to persevere in the face of obstacles and ensure customer’s success.

Self starter, works well unsupervised or with limited supervision.

Detail Oriented (Process orientation preferred)

Technical & Analytical Skills (Required)

Well-developed troubleshooting skills, ability to analyze details and synthesize "big picture", frequently working with incomplete or ambiguous data. Creative use of industry standard tools to aid in the diagnostic process. Knowledge of SQL.

It is a plus to have functional and technical knowledge of more than one modules in any of the following Oracle Supply Chain Application Suites - Oracle EBusiness Suite; PeopleSoft Enterprise SCM; JD Edwards Enterprise One; Siebel

As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.

As a Principal Support Engineer, you will offer strategic technical support to assure the highest level of customer satisfaction. A primary focus is to create/utilize automated technology and instrumentation to diagnose, document, and resolve/avoid customer issues. You are expected to be an expert member of the technical problem solving/problem avoidance team, routinely sought after to address extremely complex, critical customer issues. Services may be frequently provided by on-site customer visits.

Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. 7 years experience with Core products or eight years experience with Applications products, BS Computer Science/Management Information Systems/Science/ Engineering/Math/Physics/Chemistry with 3.0 GPA OR (for Applications) proven professional/ technical experience, i.e., demonstrating an understanding of Applications at a functional and technical level (preferably Oracle).

This position is for supporting Fusion Applications, particularly under the Supply Chain Management (Product Information Management, Order Management, Logistics, Planning, Manufacturing and Cost Management) and the Procurement pillars (Purchasing, Self-Service Procurement, Sourcing, Supplier Model, and Supplier Portal).

Candidate Background and experience

More than ten year’s implementation, support, consulting or development experience (or equivalent) in enterprise business application.

Exceptional diagnostic and troubleshooting ability and skilled in using industry standard tools and techniques.

Extensive experience monitoring, tuning and/or changing complex applications to optimize the product to perform to customer expectations.

Extensive experience with one or many aspects of Enterprise Business Application (Product knowledge, Log reading, Troubleshooting techniques etc).

Knowledge of networks, database configuration, server configuration, Web Server optimization load balancing hardware, SQL tuning and so on.

Knowledge of Java, C++, Groovy. Experience developing applications, sustaining engineering function - break / fix

Ability and attitude to assist junior members of the team in training on new products and technologies is highly desired.

Behavioral Skills (Required)

Ability to influence and gain cooperative relationships with wide range of audiences ranging from executives to technical specialists.

Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate very well both technically and functionally in highly escalated situations. Able to produce audience appropriate communication with executives, support personnel, and customer personnel in tense, escalated situations

Well-developed listening skills. Able to discern core issues in an environment where it may be difficult to determine what the cause is and what the symptom is.

Good organizational skills. Able to develop a coherent plan of action that meets everyone’s needs to resolve a given situation as quickly as possible. Also able to revise this plan as new data is obtained without appearing that there was no plan.

Ability to persevere in the face of obstacles and ensure customer’s success.

Self starter, works well unsupervised or with limited supervision.

Detail Oriented (Process orientation preferred)

Technical & Analytical Skills (Required)

Well-developed troubleshooting skills, ability to analyze details and synthesize "big picture", frequently working with incomplete or ambiguous data. Creative use of industry standard tools to aid in the diagnostic process. Knowledge of SQL.

It is a plus to have functional and technical knowledge of more than one modules in any of the following Oracle Supply Chain Application Suites - Oracle EBusiness Suite; PeopleSoft Enterprise SCM; JD Edwards Enterprise One; Siebel