Oracle Simphony Production Support Lead

SkillNet Solutions Inc; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

SkillNet Solutions Inc is seeking an Oracle Simphony Production Support Lead to own stability, performance, and continuous improvement of the Simphony POS environment across locations. You will lead a team of support analysts, manage incidents, and serve as the primary escalation point for production issues.

This role requires 7+ years in production support with Oracle Simphony, strong SQL skills, ITIL experience, and the ability to coordinate with Oracle Support, infrastructure, and DBA teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience in production support or application support roles, with significant hands-on Oracle Simphony experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Simphony architecture, including EMC configuration and enterprise back office reporting.
• Experience leading or mentoring a support team, with ownership of incident and problem management processes.
• Solid understanding of SQL and ability to troubleshoot database-related issues.
• Experience with ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management practices.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage stakeholder expectations during high-pressure incidents.
• Ability to work flexible hours and participate in on-call rotation, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day production support operations for Oracle Simphony POS, ensuring high system availability across locations.
• Own incident management from triage through root cause analysis and resolution, meeting SLAs for critical issues.
• Manage and mentor a team of production support analysts, coordinating on-call rotations for 24/7 coverage.
• Serve as the primary liaison with Oracle Support and coordinate on critical outages and patches.
• Drive problem management to identify recurring issues and implement permanent fixes.
• Coordinate patch management, version upgrades, and configuration changes across Simphony environments.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, and DBA teams to troubleshoot environment issues.
• Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, and reporting to preempt issues.
• Document procedures and runbooks to improve efficiency and reduce MTTR.
• Manage change control processes for production changes with testing and approvals.
• Communicate status updates and post-mortems to stakeholders and leadership.
• Support integrations between Simphony and third-party/enterprise systems.

Skills

Team Leadership

Incident Management

Oracle Simphony

SQL

ITIL

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

EMC configuration

KDS

Oracle Retail/Oracle Hospitality integration

Job description

Title: Oracle Simphony Production Support Lead

Type: Full time/Contract

Location: Bay Area, CA

Job Summary

• Own and drive stability, performance, and continuous improvement of the Oracle Simphony POS environment.
• Lead a team of support analysts, manage incident and problem resolution, and serve as the primary escalation point for Simphony-related production issues across restaurant/retail operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day production support operations for Oracle Simphony POS, ensuring high system availability across all locations and business units.
• Own incident management from triage through root cause analysis and resolution, meeting defined SLAs for critical and high-priority issues.
• Manage and mentor a team of production support analysts, coordinating on-call rotations and escalation procedures for 24/7 coverage.
• Serve as the primary liaison with Oracle Support (SRs, patches, and escalations) and coordinate with Oracle on critical outages.
• Drive problem management to identify recurring issues and implement permanent fixes, reducing repeat incidents.
• Coordinate patch management, version upgrades, and configuration changes across Simphony environments (EMC, workstations, KDS, enterprise back office).
• Partner with infrastructure, network, and DBA teams to troubleshoot environment, connectivity, and database-related issues impacting POS operations.
• Maintain and improve monitoring, alerting, and reporting to proactively identify issues before they impact business operations.
• Document support procedures, runbooks, and knowledge base articles to improve team efficiency and reduce mean time to resolution.
• Manage change control processes for production changes, ensuring proper testing and approval before deployment.
• Communicate status updates, incident summaries, and post-mortems to stakeholders and leadership.
• Support integration points between Simphony and third-party/enterprise systems (payment processing, loyalty, inventory, reporting/BI, labor management).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience in production support or application support roles, with significant hands-on Oracle Simphony (or MICROS Simphony) experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Simphony architecture, including EMC configuration, Simphony database, workstations/KDS, and enterprise back office reporting.
• Experience leading or mentoring a support team, with demonstrated ownership of incident and problem management processes.
• Solid understanding of SQL and ability to troubleshoot database-related issues.
• Experience with ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management practices.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to manage stakeholder expectations during high-pressure incidents.
• Ability to work flexible hours and participate in on-call rotation, including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed given the retail/hospitality environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with additional Oracle Retail or Oracle Hospitality products (Oracle Retail Xstore, Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics, Oracle Payment Interface).
• Experience integrating Simphony with third-party POS, payment gateways, or loyalty platforms.
• ITIL certification.
• Prior experience in restaurant, hospitality, or multi-site retail environments.
• Familiarity with cloud/hybrid Simphony deployments and Oracle Cloud infrastructure.