Location: Harrisburg, PA Position Type: Remote Contract Length: Long-term with annual extensions
Position Overview
This role supports a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative focused on transforming legacy Oracle Forms applications into modern Oracle APEX solutions running on Oracle Database 19c. The position plays a key role in improving system performance, security, and maintainability while supporting mission-critical regulatory applications through modern development and Agile practices.
Duties
- Analyze existing Oracle Forms applications to understand architecture, data structures, workflows, and system integrations.
- Convert and migrate legacy Oracle Forms applications into Oracle APEX solutions.
- Design and develop modern Oracle APEX user interfaces in collaboration with technical leadership.
- Help establish UI/UX standards and development best practices for future APEX applications.
- Develop and maintain PL/SQL stored procedures, functions, packages, and advanced SQL queries.
- Perform data extraction, analysis, and scripting to support reporting and system enhancements.
- Review and interpret technical and functional documentation to understand business and system requirements.
- Implement and maintain application security, roles, and authorization models within Oracle environments.
- Conduct performance profiling, tuning, and optimization to improve application responsiveness and maintainability.
- Create and maintain technical, functional, and system documentation.
- Participate in all phases of the SDLC including requirements analysis, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Provide mentoring, knowledge transfer, and technical guidance to internal IT staff and development teams.
- Support production deployments and release management activities.
- Provide regular status updates and communicate progress to leadership.
- Generate reports and deliverables for executive stakeholders, technical teams, and end users.
Required Skills
- 5 years of experience developing in Oracle PL/SQL, including stored procedures, functions, packages, and advanced queries.
- 5 years of experience developing applications using Oracle APEX.
- Strong knowledge of Oracle RDBMS, with preference for Oracle 19c environments.
- Strong hands-on experience using SQL Developer and/or TOAD for database development and administration.
- Solid understanding of data modeling principles and relational database design.
- Experience integrating applications with web services.
- Experience performing performance tuning, debugging, and testing of SQL queries, views, and stored procedures within Oracle (and SQL Server) environments.
Preferred Skills
- Previous experience supporting government or public-sector environments.
- Experience modernizing and converting legacy Oracle Forms applications.
- Exposure to XML, HTML, web services, Java, PL/SQL APIs, SOA architecture, and Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
- 2 years of experience working with and demonstrating strong understanding of Oracle 19c database features