Associate PeopleSoft Consultant - CIC Halifax

Introduction
As an Application Package Specialist you’ll help clients in the selection implementation and production support of application packaged solutions. You’ll gain in-depth consulting skills business knowledge and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into the clients’ business environment. Join us and start your path as a key player to achieve client expected business results and become the expert you want to be.

Your Role and Responsibilities

At IBM we know technology. But technology is only as good as the results it delivers. Are you interested and adept in application development methodology and tools? The IBM Client Innovation Centre (CIC): Nova Scotia occupies a unique position in the IT marketplace – at the intersection of business and technology.
In this role you’ll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ These delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
As a member of our team you will help IBM clients solve some of their most challenging business problems capitalize on market opportunities and achieve real value in today’s tough economy.
We’re looking for passionate original thinkers who want to drive progress grow their network and further their careers. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning who believes no problem is too big to solve and who wants to unleash their potential an Associate role is for you.

Candidates must:

• Have graduated no earlier than 2022 and will be graduating no later than 2024
• Have an Associate’s Degree College Diploma Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree by date of employment
• Exception: This program does not accept MBA or PhD candidates/graduates
• Have no more than 2 years of full-time professional related work experience
• Be eligible to work in Canada without current or future needs for visa sponsorship
• Be willing and able to live and work in Nova Scotia with minimal travel anticipated
• Must be eligible for clearance and have lived in Canada for 5 – 10 years

PeopleSoft is an Oracle ERP system with a focus on HR payroll and accounting modules. Candidates interested in Oracle PeopleSoft MUST be eligible for Federal Government security clearance & MUST be available for shift work and on call support work in order to serve IBM’s keystone Government client. PeopleSoft has opportunities in both technical and functional roles.

Technical career path(s) include:

Junior PeopleSoft/Oracle Developer Roles & Responsibilities:

• Your main duties will be providing application support and ERP Software Development
• You will support & resolve application incidents & defects on Oracle/PeopleSoft ERP applications
• You will be responsible for installation and technical configuration of the PeopleSoft ERP system and databases in multiple environments
• You will troubleshoot any database and application performance issue

Functional career path(s) include:

Functional Analyst Roles and Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for maintaining system administration tasks on the PeopleSoft application
• You will be supporting accounting payroll & HR tasks on the PeopleSoft ERP application
• You will be working with large databases from the client

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• You have the ability to work in an Agile collaborative environment to understand requirements design code and test innovative applications and support those applications for our highly valued customers
• You have strong excel skills and enjoy making meaningful evaluations of a given set of data (tables excel files etc.)
• You enjoy working in a team environment with team members of a diverse background and skill set along with being comfortable working on your own to complete individual assigned tasks
• You enjoy working with the public and have demonstrated excellent customer experience skills
• You will have demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to communicate with multiple levels of management and executives
• You have the ability to learn new processes coach and direct team members
• You enjoy problem solving and delivering innovative solutions to complex problems that address client needs
• You are great at solving problems debugging troubleshooting designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues
• You have experience coding and using databases
• You have basic knowledge or hands on coding experience in one or more of the following technology areas:

  • C++ C Java JavaScript Angular React Python SQL ASP .NET

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Must be eligible for clearance and have lived in Canada for 5 – 10 years