SKILLS AND ABILITIES

1. Cultivate close working relationship with IT peers to understand overall requirements and identify opportunities.
   

2. Ability to lead meetings with technical peers regarding the solution designs.

3. Thorough understanding of databases, data modeling, and tuning methods for Oracle.

4. Strong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.

5. Ability to design and develop complex integration solutions, including EDI/B2B, based on requirements.

6. Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.

7. Demonstrated ability to communicate and interact effectively with a variety of people. Present a professional, competent, and confident image in dealing with people.

8. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and understand complex issues.

9. Ability to Plan, initiate, prioritize and supervise manage multiple projects simultaneously.

10. High emotional intelligence with demonstrated ability to lead and develop high performance work teams.

11. Ability to proactively identify opportunities and gaps, develop business cases and make recommendation on leveraging technology to accelerate business goals.

12. Critical thinking to understand and solve complex problems. Positive and can-do attitude.

13. Ability to work well with others and communicate with executives, business and technology peers, and team members.

14. Ability to follow-up and follow through to completion whether it is a large initiative or small task discussed with Business / IT leadership.

15. Ability to adjust to changing priorities and participation in multiple projects.

16. High ability to learn quickly and solve complex issues independently as well as in a team environment.

17. High resilience and EQ to collaborate with business unit and corporate executives and users, department peers and colleagues and foster a team environment.

18. Self-starter with excellent time management skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently with ease, while maintaining a strong focus on detail.

19. Problem solving ability that allow for effective and timely resolution of system issues including but not limited to production outages.

20. Knowledge of software development life cycle, modeling of business processes, application design patterns, business/functional documents.

21. General understanding of hardware/software platforms including but not limited to operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers and integration technologies.

22. Ability to lead a team of technical professionals.

23. Ability to energize people and teams, organize activities and make cross-functional cooperation happen.

24. Oversee business activities to ensure a high standard of professional excellence is maintained among staff members.

25. Understanding of SQL performance tuning techniques including query plan understanding and management, SQL tracing, DB stats, indexing techniques, using AWR reports etc.

26. Strong communication skills, self-motivated, detail oriented, and highly responsible.

27. Strong collaboration skills, working with multiple teams in various locations in an agile environment.

28. Ability to work independently and manage communication to all organizational levels.

29. Proven track record and strong project management, delivery, implementation skills.

30. Technology visionary/leader with a strong understanding of cloud computing and hosting services.

31. Foster a strong customer service mindset with the technical teams, while championing thought leadership and partnership with business.

32. Define objectives and goals for the team as they relate to the overall IT division goals.  Build, manage and mentor employee relationships to enhance their career objectives and knowledge (e.g. ongoing coaching conversations, technical and soft skills training, etc.)