ERP Technical Team Lead

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is a district on the rise, serving over 320,000 students in 500 schools and employing over 44,000 people, most of them teachers. CPS has set ambitious goals to ensure that every student, in every school and every neighborhood, has access to a world-class learning experience that prepares each for success in college, career, and civic life.  In order to fulfill this mission, we make three commitments to our students, their families, and all Chicagoans: academic progress, financial stability, and integrity.  Six core values are embedded within these commitments – student-centered, whole child, equity, academic excellence, community partnership, and continuous learning.

CPS is currently undertaking a multi-year ERP modernization program for migrating and upgrading on-premise Oracle E-Business Financials, and Oracle PeopleSoft Human Capital Management Applications, and Kronos Workforce Management System to the latest SaaS-based Oracle Cloud ERP Platform as part of business and technology transformation.

Job Summary: 

The ERP Technical Team Lead - Oracle Fusion Integration is responsible for the orchestration of integration to and from the District’s Oracle Fusion Cloud environments to meet the business and technical requirements for the ERP Modernization Program. This position resides in ERP Portfolio Management of the Information and Technology Services (ITS) / ERP Modernization Program and reports to the Director of ERP Portfolio Management. This role is responsible for the orchestration of On-Premise Oracle E-Business and Oracle PeopleSoft migration and integration activities to Oracle Fusion Cloud to meet business requirements.

The ERP Technical Team Lead - Oracle Fusion Integration will be held accountable for the following responsibilities:

• Develop Integration strategy and plans with solid experience in developing inbound and outbound integrations for ERP applications.
• Recruit, onboard, and provide direction, guidance, and strong leadership and performance management to the Technical team to ensure robust learning and career development consistent with the CPS values and mission; foster collaboration and effective integration of efforts with division-wide initiatives.
• Define roles and responsibilities for the technical integration activities.
• Review and provide comments and suggestions on the integration work deliverables.
• Document technical activity timelines for dry-run testing and production deployment.
• Develop an integration checklist and sign-off process to ensure completion of planned activities.
• Drive technical design and data mapping activities for each inbound and outbound integration with Oracle Fusion Cloud.
• Assist with determining boundary applications and establishing security controls.
• Develop unit and end-to-end integration test plans.
• Work with system integrators, third-party vendors, and internal application owners to deliver work products.
• Document the end-to-end integration test results.
• Other duties and workstreams as assigned.

In order to be successful and achieve the above responsibilities, the ERP Technical Team Lead - Oracle Fusion Integration must possess the following qualifications: 

Education Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is required. 
• Master’s of Business Administration is preferred.
• Oracle ERP Cloud certifications are preferred.
• Oracle Fusion Technical Certification is preferred.

Experience Required: 

• A minimum of seven (7) years of ERP integration experience, including:
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in managing and leading Oracle Fusion Cloud integration workstream- On-Premise Oracle E-Business and Oracle PeopleSoft to Oracle Fusion Cloud.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience managing technical integration activities for Oracle ERP Cloud Tech stack.
• A minimum of two (2) years of recent end-to-end full life cycle experience as an Oracle Fusion integration technical lead implementing Oracle Fusion Financials, HCM, Projects, Grants & Assets, and Procurement Cloud Services, including preparation of strategy, plan, timing, dependencies, and sequencing of tasks.
• Experience with OIC, third-party software integration, including Hexagon, GrantsNow, Workforce, Banks, Data warehouse environments, and State and public entities.
• Experience in the business context in Financials and Procurement, HCM, and Payroll and integrating the relevant Oracle Fusion Cloud Services with other upstream and downstream systems.
• Experience planning ERP Cloud instance strategy for SaaS and PaaS solutions.
• Experience working with Oracle Financials, Procurement, Assets, Projects, Grants HCM, and Time and Labor Cloud modules.
• Experience across all RICE design/development on Oracle ERP Cloud tech stack.
• Experience in Education (K-12) ERP Oracle Fusion Cloud Implementation preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Demonstrated knowledge required to leverage Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) to design and implement cloud and on-premises application integrations.
• Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills.
• Expertise across the Oracle Fusion Tech stack, including but not limited to: Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), OTBI, VBCS, Java, Oracle Database, XML/BI Publisher, ADF, SQL, PL/SQL, FBDI, etc.
• Ability to work with large-scale ERP program system integrators for timely completion of each phase
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to successfully collaborate with functional and technical leads, business users, and SMEs.

Conditions of Employment

As a condition of employment with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), employees are required to:

·       Establish/Maintain Chicago Residency - Employees are required to live within the geographic boundaries of the City of Chicago within six months of their CPS hire date and maintain residency throughout their employment with the district. The Chicago residency requirement does not apply to temporary/part-time positions, however, all CPS employees must be residents of Illinois.