Agency DescriptionThe Office of Innovation & Technology (OIT) is the central IT agency for the City of Philadelphia headed by the Chief Information Officer (CIO). OIT oversees all major information and communications technology initiatives for the City of Philadelphia - increasing the effectiveness of the information technology infrastructure, where the services provided are advanced, optimized, and responsive to the needs of the City of Philadelphia's businesses, residents, and visitors. OIT responsibilities include: identifying the most effective approach for implementing new information technology directions throughout city government; improving the value of the city's technology assets and the return on the city's technology investments; ensuring data security continuity; planning for continuing operations in the event of disruption of information technology or communications services; and supporting accountable, efficient and effective government across every city department, board, commission and agency.
In partnership with the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and the Office of the Director of Finance, the Office of Innovation and Technology (OIT) is undertaking a major Citywide project to modernize core financial, grants, procurement, and supply chain business processes. This project (Optimize Procurement and Accounting Logistics Enterprise Resource Planning and Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Tool, or "OPAL ERP and DW/BI project") will replace the existing General Ledger and Procurement systems (i.e. FAMIS, ADPICS, ACIS, PHLContracts, etc.) that support these business processes and will enable the City to realize benefits such as reducing transaction processing time and effort, providing better access to information for reporting and analysis, and making it easier to onboard new employees into these functions.
Job DescriptionPositionSummaryThe ERP Integrations Developer will play a crucial part in designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining ERP Integrations with the City's enterprise systems. This position will work with a team of implementation consultants to design the system, conduct initial user acceptance testing, train city personnel, help to integrate the system with other city software and launch the software in phases. After the project is launched, there will be an optimization phase where the team will analyze and implement changes to improve the performance and integrations.
Essential FunctionsThe ERP Integration Developer is expected to:
- Participate in requirements/use case creation for new integrations,
- Design integrations following enterprise policies and standards,
- Analyze, define, and prioritize the different methods available to deliver each of the desired integrations,
- Design/build/test all development objects including integrations, as a shared responsibility with the implementor, on the project, and ongoing after the project.
- Build new integrations in conjunction with the implementor,
- Test new integrations,
- Deploy new integrations,
- Support & maintain existing integrations, working with the City's enterprise community to identify changes deployed to the ERP boundary systems and participating in regression testing efforts,
- Create, review and maintain technical documentation on each integration.
- Identify, research, resolve, and report on integration production issues and document enhancement requests.
Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities- Knowledge of Full Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Working knowledge of Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, and a platform-specific language tool like Ruby or MEL/DataWeave.
- Ability to identify data classifications, specifically the ability to recognize regulated and sensitive data,
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Ability to build effective relationships and strong commitment to working collegially and collaboratively with colleagues at all levels in a diverse and distributed environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to create user and project documentation and procedures, clearly and concisely.
QualificationsRequired:- Completion of a Bachelor's or Master's degree in information systems, computer engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience;
- Minimum five (5) years' work experience, preferably within IT, and three (3) years' experience building/supporting integrations
Preferred:- Experience with implementing ERP and/or DW/BI solutions
- Experience working in a large governmental environment
Additional InformationTO APPLY: Interested candidates must submit a cover letter, resume, and writing sample. References will be requested after interview.Salary Range: $90,000
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*The successful candidate must be a city of Philadelphia resident within six months of hireEffective May 22, 2023, vaccinations are
no longer required for new employees that work in non-medical, non-emergency or patient facing positions with the City of Philadelphia. As a result, only employees in positions providing services that are patient-facing medical care (ex: Nurses, doctors, emergency medical personnel), must be fully vaccinated.
