Application Development & Support Specialist

Role Summary

We are seeking a senior-level Application Development Lead to join our Supply Chain Management (SCM) technology team in India. This role combines hands-on development, solution design, application support, integration delivery, and people leadership. The successful candidate will lead and mentor a team of three developers while remaining actively involved in the design, development, review, deployment, and support of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), APIs, and related SCM solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong experience across Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Order-to-Cash (O2C), along with advanced Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle APIs, OIC integrations, REST/SOAP services, reporting, DevOps, and production support capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of three developers, including work allocation, technical direction, code reviews, quality oversight, and delivery tracking.
• Act as the technical lead for SCM application enhancements, integrations, incident resolution, and production support.
• Partner with solution architects, functional teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs.
• Prepare and review technical solution documents, design specifications, interface mappings, deployment plans, test evidence, support documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Design, develop, and customize Oracle EBS concurrent programs using PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, and Oracle APIs.
• Build and support integrations using Oracle Integration Cloud, including orchestrations, scheduled integrations, file-based interfaces, error handling, monitoring, and reprocessing.
• Design, develop, secure, test, and document REST and SOAP APIs for internal and external application integrations.
• Develop and maintain custom interfaces, data conversions, and migration scripts using PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, Oracle APIs, and other approved integration methods.
• Develop operational and analytical reports using Oracle Reports Builder, XML Publisher/BI Publisher, Discoverer, and related reporting tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues involving Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Drop Ship Orders, supplier transactions, interfaces, and other P2P/O2C process flows.
• Perform root-cause analysis, implement defect fixes and performance improvements, and drive preventive actions for recurring production issues.
• Ensure code quality through development standards, peer reviews, unit testing, debugging, security controls, documentation, and release-readiness checks.
• Support DevOps and release-management activities, including source control, CI/CD pipelines, deployment coordination, rollback planning, and post-deployment validation.
• Provide technical estimates, identify delivery risks and dependencies, communicate status, and escalate issues when required.
• Promote knowledge sharing, reusable integration patterns, coding standards, and continuous improvement across the development team.

Required Technical Skills

• 10+ years of relevant experience in Oracle EBS technical development, SCM applications, enterprise integrations, or a comparable application-development environment.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Oracle EBS SCM modules, with working knowledge of P2P and O2C business processes.
• Advanced Oracle SQL and PL/SQL skills, including packages, procedures, functions, triggers, performance tuning, and debugging.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), including adapters, connections, mappings, orchestrations, schedules, fault handling, monitoring, and integration troubleshooting.
• Strong API-development experience using REST and SOAP services, JSON, XML, authentication mechanisms, error handling, versioning, and API documentation.
• Experience with Oracle APIs, interface tables, concurrent programs, SQL*Loader, and data migration/conversion techniques.
• Experience with Oracle Reports Builder, XML Publisher/BI Publisher, and Discoverer or equivalent reporting technologies.
• Experience with DevOps practices, source control, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release-management processes.
• Ability to develop high-quality technical designs and conduct structured code and design reviews.
• Experience creating and maintaining process flows, system integration diagrams, data-flow diagrams, and technical architecture visuals using Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or comparable diagramming tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, production-support, and root-cause-analysis skills.

Leadership & Professional Skills

• Prior experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating a small technical team.
• Ability to balance team leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical delivery.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to manage priorities, deadlines, risks, and dependencies.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating across global, cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work effectively within Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid delivery models.
• Commitment to documentation, knowledge transfer, operational stability, and continuous improvement.

Tools & Technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle EBS, API, cloud, or DevOps certifications are preferred.
• Experience working in an IT consulting, shared-services, or global enterprise delivery organization.
• Experience supporting supply chain integrations with third-party platforms, suppliers, logistics providers, or enterprise applications.
• Exposure to Power BI, DAX, Snowflake, Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics, or comparable analytics and monitoring platforms.

Success Measures

• Consistent, high-quality delivery by the lead and the three-person development team.
• Reliable and supportable OIC integrations and APIs with effective monitoring, error handling, and documentation.
• Improved code quality, review discipline, deployment readiness, and production stability.
• Timely resolution of SCM incidents and successful delivery of enhancements across P2P and O2C processes.
• Effective stakeholder communication, team development, knowledge transfer, and reduction of single points of failure.