Pool Corporation

IT Software Administrator, JDE

Pool Corporation$75K — $95K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on JD Edwards World 7.3 administration experience, with at least 3 years focused on CNC.
  • Strong knowledge of package builds, deployment, security workbench, and UDO management.
  • Experience supporting at least two functional pillars of JDE (Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing, Supply Chain).
  • Knowledge of change-management practices and IT controls (e.g., SOX, segregation of duties).
  • Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Administer JD Edwards World A7.3 on IBM i LPAR; manage user environments, library lists, and profiles.
  • Manage JDE software versions, including version control and change tracking.
  • Schedule and troubleshoot batch jobs, managing job queues and output.
  • Maintain security profiles, segregation-of-duties controls, and document control procedures.
  • Collaborate with functional analysts to implement business requirements in JDE.
  • Support month-end and year-end accounting processes, ensuring G/L integrity and batch posting.
  • Engage with Oracle Support and partake in on-call production incident management.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage with wellness programs.
  • 401(k) plan with generous company match.
  • 13 days of paid time off plus 8 paid holidays, increasing with tenure.
  • 100% employer-paid life insurance and long-term disability insurance.
  • Paid parental leave and fully funded tuition education programs.
  • Bonus programs for employee recognition and performance.
  • Employee stock purchase plan and various discounts.
Full Job Description

You want Benefits?You’vegot it!Our generous benefits package includes: 

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug coverage with Flexible Spending Accounts and Wellness Programs

  • 401 (k) with generous company match

  • 13 daysof paid time off (PTO) & 8 Paid Holidays (NOTE: PTO increases with tenure!)

  • 100% employer paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Fully Funded Tuition Education Programs

  • Bonus Programs that include Employee Recognition and Referrals, Summer Madness, and Annual Performance

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  • Employee Discounts and much more!

What to Expect?  

  • The JDE Software Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day administration, configuration, and continuous improvement of the Oracle JD Edwards (JDE World 7.3) platform. This role combines deep Configurable Network Computing (CNC) expertise with hands-on functional support across core JDE modules, ensuring the ERP environment is stable, secure, performant, and aligned with business needs. 

  • The successful candidate will own the technical health of the JDE landscape — including object management, security, package builds, environment refreshes, and patching — while also partnering with finance, distribution, manufacturing, and supply-chain stakeholders to troubleshoot module issues and implement configuration changes that drive operational efficiency. 

  • This role requires the JDE Software Administrator to be on-site in Clearwater, Florida daily.

 

On a daily basis our JOB TITLE: 

  • Administer JD Edwards World A7.3 on a single IBMi(OS/400 / IBM i7.x) LPAR; useJDE environments, library lists, and restricted-access profiles to isolate changes from production users.

  • Manage JDE libraries, environments, and the Software Versions Repository (SVR) including version control, change tracking, and disciplined promotion of changes within the shared LPAR.

  • Schedule, monitor, and troubleshoot batch jobs, sleeper jobs, and subsystem activity; manage job queues, output queues, and spool files.

  • Maintain DREAM Writer versions, processing options, dataselection, and data sequencing for standard and custom reports.

  • Administer JDE World security: user profiles, group profiles, action code security, function key security, business unit security, and menu locks.

  • Maintain segregation-of-duties (SoD) controls and produce evidence for SOX, internal audit, and external audit requests.

  • Document all reports, queries, and configuration changes; follow change-control standards on the shared LPAR.

  • Manage IBMiuser profiles, authorization lists, and object authorities related to the JDE environment.

  • Review and remediate audit findings; document control procedures and keep them current.

  • Configure and support core JDE World modules including General Accounting (G/L), Accounts Payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Fixed Assets, Inventory Management, Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, Address Book, and Procurement.

  • Maintain Automatic Accounting Instructions (AAIs), next numbers, user-defined codes (UDCs), vocabulary overrides, and constants.

  • Partner with functional analysts to translate business requirements into JDE configuration, custom modifications, or report changes.

  • Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities including G/L integrity, batch posting, and period close routines.

  • Note: This position is NOT responsible for RPG development. Program-level modifications are handled by a separate developer or vendor; the administrator partners with that resource to define requirements, test changes, and promote them.

  • Design, build, andmaintaincustom reports and inquiries using World Writer and DREAM Writer (versions, processing options, data selection, and data sequencing); useCoolSpoolsto convert, distribute, and archive spool output as PDF, Excel, CSV, and email.

  • Write andmaintainqueries against DB2 for IBM iusing IBM Query/400 (WRKQRY), DB2 SQL (RUNSQLSTM, STRSQL), and ODBC/JDBC tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Access) to extract data for finance, operations, and audit consumers

  • Partner with the DBA, Infrastructure, Network, and Security teams to ensure the JDE stack meets enterprise standards for performance, availability, and compliance.

  • Engage with Oracle Support and third-party JDE partners on service requests, escalations, and roadmap planning.

  • Participate in anon-callfor production incidents and after-hours changewindows.

  • Customer-focused mindset witha track recordof delivering reliable enterprise services.

  • Strong ownership and accountability — able to drive issues to resolution across teams.

  • Calm under pressure during production incidents and tight close windows.

  • Comfortable balancing projectworkwith break/fix support across multiple priorities.

  • Continuous-improvement mindset; activelylooksfor ways to automate, standardize, and document.

  • Standard business hours with occasional after-hours and weekend work for change windows, releases, and incident response.

  • Participation in beingon-callfor production support.

  • Prolongedperiodsworking at a computer; occasional travel to other company locations as needed.

  • Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience. 

  • 5+ years of hands-on JD Edwards World 7.3 administration experience, with at least 3 years focused on CNC. 

  • Strong working knowledge of package build and deployment, security workbench, and UDO management. 

  • Proven experience supporting at least two JDE functional pillars (Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing, or Supply Chain). 

  • Working knowledge of change-management practices and IT controls (e.g., SOX, segregation of duties). 

  • Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills — able to translate technical issues for business audiences. 

 

Skills Preferred: 

  • Experience installing, setting up, configuring, and utilizing Fortra PowerTech Applications 

  • Experience leading a JDE Tools or Applications upgrade.

  • Experience applying Oracle PTFs, cumulative updates, and IBMiPTFs.

  • Disciplineoperatingin a single-LPAR environment without separate test/dev partitions; comfortable applying compensating controls (library isolation, restricted profiles, after-hourstesting, documented rollback).

  • ITIL Foundation certification or equivalentservice-managementbackground.

About Pool Corporation

Pool Corporation distributes swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related leisure products in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia. The company offers approximately 200,000 national brand and Pool Corporation branded products. Its customers include swimming pool remodelers and builders; specialty retailers that sell swimming pool supplies; swimming pool repair and service businesses; irrigation construction and landscape maintenance contractors; and golf courses and other commercial customers. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Covington, Louisiana.
Learn more about Pool Corporation
Size
5,500 employees
Market Cap
$11.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$366.7 million
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$3.9 billion
NASDAQ

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