Senior PeopleSoft Administrator - 26-14977

Senior PeopleSoft Administrator
Location: New York, NY

Duration: 2 years
Employment Type: Contract (NO BENEFITS)

Job Summary
The Senior PeopleSoft Administrator will provide senior-level technical leadership and hands-on support for a PeopleSoft modernization program. This position will support the migration of the PeopleSoft application ecosystem to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with PeopleTools and PeopleSoft application upgrades to the latest supported releases and PUM images.

The consultant will work closely with application development, database, cloud, middleware, network, security, and infrastructure teams to design, build, migrate, upgrade, test, and support highly available PeopleSoft environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess the existing PeopleSoft environment and assist with developing the target OCI architecture
• Plan and execute the migration of PeopleSoft applications and supporting components to OCI
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and administer PeopleSoft environments
• Lead PeopleTools upgrades and PeopleSoft application upgrades using the PUM methodology
• Build and maintain PUM environments and apply PUM images, patches, PRPs, tax updates, and security fixes
• Administer PeopleSoft Internet Architecture, WebLogic, Tuxedo, Process Scheduler, Integration Broker, Elasticsearch, and related components
• Support PeopleSoft FSCM, HCM, ELM, EPM, and Portal applications
• Perform environment builds, refreshes, cloning, migrations, testing, production cutovers, and post-production support
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the application, middleware, database, operating system, and OCI infrastructure layers
• Perform application and infrastructure performance analysis and tuning
• Support high availability, backup, recovery, disaster recovery, monitoring, and security requirements
• Support third-party integrations and PeopleSoft migrations using PHIRE
• Develop architecture diagrams, configuration documents, implementation plans, operational runbooks, test plans, and knowledge-transfer materials
• Provide production support and participate in after-hours implementations and critical incident support when required

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 15 years of PeopleSoft administration and technical architecture experience; 20 or more years preferred
• Expert-level experience with PeopleTools 8.59 or later and PeopleSoft 9.2 applications
• Extensive experience with PeopleTools upgrades and PeopleSoft application upgrades using PUM
• Strong experience administering FSCM, HCM, ELM, EPM, and Portal environments
• Demonstrated experience migrating enterprise PeopleSoft environments to OCI
• Strong knowledge of PeopleSoft Internet Architecture, WebLogic, Tuxedo, Process Scheduler, Integration Broker, Elasticsearch, and Oracle Database
• Experience with Change Assistant, PUM images, PeopleSoft patching, PRPs, tax updates, environment refreshes, and PHIRE migrations
• Experience supporting large and complex PeopleSoft environments across DEV, TEST, UAT, STG, PROD, and DR
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Windows, Oracle Database, SQL Server, high availability, disaster recovery, security, monitoring, and performance tuning
• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and technical leadership skills
• Ability to coordinate effectively with application, database, middleware, network, security, and cloud teams
• Availability to support production cutovers and critical issues outside normal business hours when required

Preferred

• Oracle OCI Professional or Architect certification (strongly preferred)