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Role Description

Responsible for business systems design and configuration, and upgrades and improvements for low to medium complexity applications.

  • Design and implement solutions to a wide range of difficult problems that are imaginative, thorough, and practical.
  • Responsible for independent development and configuration of an assigned application.
  • Identify issues that arise in the application area as well as issues that impact other application teams, and work to resolve them.
  • Develop new processes and procedures to meet current challenges.
  • Create and maintain system documentation.
  • Lead the estimation of enhancement or support requests.
  • Guide workflow design, configure and test system changes, and analyze technical issues.
  • Liaise with business systems stakeholders and software vendor’s implementation staff to ensure alignment of business needs with the delivery of system changes.
  • Develop an understanding of operational needs to set the direction for the organization's workflows; proactively identify opportunities to improve business workflow with technology improvements.
  • Participate in developing documentation and participate in trainings and work with end users.
  • Troubleshoot problems and questions and provide regular updates on status to key business stakeholders.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert of assigned applications.
  • Provide end-user production support for issues entered into issue tracking systems.
  • Review the status of projects and issues with project leadership.
  • Assign or delegate configuration or other activities to other team members.
  • Act as delegate for leadership regarding incident or problem resolution.
  • Provide mentorship for other peers and take the lead to solve problems, even if outside of normal scope.
  • Lead internal process design and documentation to drive continuous improvement for the IT department or team.

Telecommuting permitted.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or closely related quantitative discipline.
  • Five (5) years of work experience in the job offered or five (5) years of experience in the field of data/software engineering, data analytics, or data science.

Requirements

  • Database Administration including SQL, Sybase and/or Maxdb.
  • Software development methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall.
  • Data analysis and data modeling.
  • SAP Basis administration [at least 5 years].
  • SAP HANA database experience [at least 3 years].
  • SAP Operation expertise not limited to performance tuning, transport management, system copies and refreshes [at least 5 years].
  • SAP Datasphere experience.
  • SAP Monitoring using Cloud ALM or other 3rd party tool.

Benefits

  • Salary: $109,658 - $155,000 per year.

Company Description

Our success relies on the experiences and perspectives of a diverse team, and Exact Sciences fosters a culture where all employees can develop personally and professionally with a sense of respect and belonging.

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