EPM Developer and Administrator Financial Systems

Posting Title

EPM Developer and Administrator Financial Systems

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Location

CO - Golden

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Position Type

Regular

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NREL

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for energy systems research and development.

Join the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration. From our mission to our collaborative culture, NREL stands out in the research community for its commitment to an affordable and secure energy future. Spanning foundational science to applied systems engineering and analysis, we focus on solving complex challenges to deliver advanced, secure, reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions. Our work helps strengthen U.S. industries, support job creation, and promote national economic growth.

At NREL, you’ll find a mission-driven environment supported by state-of-the-art facilities, multidisciplinary research teams, and strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other national laboratories. We offer robust professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package designed to support your career and well-being.

Learn about NREL’s critical objectives: NREL's Mission and Vision.

Job Description

We have an opening for an EPM Developer and Administrator to join our Office of the CFO (OCFO) as part of the FP&A Business Systems group supporting Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) financial systems’ compliance and modernization efforts for our FP&A organization of the lab.

• Adminstrator of EPM Systems.
• Take initiative to work collaboratively. Establishes positive working relationships across organizations.
• Manage the EPM system for OCFO to include security permissions, respond to user requests, systems updates, troubleshooting as needed.
• Ensure nightly, month-end, and yearly processes run smoothly, troubleshoot and update system as necessary to maintain operations as intended.
• Responsible for collaboratively working with ITS on software development activities including authoring of requirements, solution specifications, test plans; development and testing of custom software solutions.
• Provide technical input and recommendations on specific software solutions.
• Support business units by researching issues and questions to determine root cause, identify course of action and bring issue/question to resolution.
• Adhere to the software development process including utilizing iterative design approaches and concepts, creating, and filing appropriate documentation as prescribed by the process.
• Utilize the standardized support tools established for IT.
• Manage your time and daily activities to satisfy work assignments, performance, and deliverables.
• Communicate status of work assignments.
• Implement best practices for EPM administration.
• Adherence to Cyber Security guidelines for the proper security management and administration of EPM.
• Manage multiple purpose-driven EPM “pods” regularly.
• Coordinate and support regression testing of EPM monthly patching cadence.
• Coordinate and support major updates of EPM.
• Troubleshoot any process and integration issues between EPM and any other systems.
• Implement and follow proper approval workflows for user management.
• Rigorously manage EPM Identity Domain administrative accounts and access.

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Basic Qualifications

Professional Level IV -
Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 7 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience.

Professional Level V -
Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 14 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 12 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant JD and 9 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience.

Eligibility requirements: This position will require access to Controlled Unclassified Information which may include restricted dissemination requirements based on citizenship. As a result, applicants may be excluded from consideration based on citizenship in accordance with DOE O 471.7, Controlled Unclassified Information. https://www.directives.doe.gov/news/new-doe-o-471-7-controlled-unclassified-information

* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.

Additional Required Qualifications

Professional Level IV -

• Applies extensive IS expertise in specific field and has full knowledge of related disciplines.
• Evaluates new hardware, software, systems tools and applications and makes procurement recommendations.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills. Skilled in analytical techniques, practices and problem solving.
• Extensive programming and architecture abilities with various computer software programs and information systems.
• High level of experience in technical, administrative, functional, and development aspects Oracle EPM Cloud.
• Groovy scripting experience and understanding.
• Knowledge of SmartView and EPM Automate.
• Expertise in administering integrations between on-premises and Cloud EPM by leveraging available tools including EPM Automate.
• Ability to build positive working relationships across the organization, service oriented.
• Experience writing technical specifications for work to be performed by other developers.
• 5+ years of recent and relevant experience as an EPM technical, administrative, functional and development for on-premise (Hyperion) and Cloud EPM.
• Cloud EPM experience is mandatory.
• Demonstrated experience in leading full scope solutions delivery through analysis, design and development of integrations, extensions, user interfaces, reports and workflows within EPM.
• Understanding of full cycle SDLC or Agile methodologies, with a focus on quality, development standards, and change control.
• The candidate must have the ability to design and implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and perform at a high-level to meet the service levels associated with mission-critical EPM application.
• Excellent impact-analysis skills and discipline. Carefully analyzes the existing code base as part of each design effort, to avoid redundancy and inconsistency and maximize code reuse.
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and an ability to communicate with internal and external customers and all levels of management, including communicating technical information to nontechnical audiences.
• Clear understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and respective experience with its application in design and development phases.
• Excellent understanding of coding methods and best practices. The SDE code must be worthy of being held up as an example for others to follow, in terms of readability, consistency, adherence to standards, and performance.
• Familiarity with code management software including Git.
• Familiarity of job scheduling in Github runner.
• 2 years of proven work experience with a wide base of knowledge of data management principles, methodologies, and frameworks including master data management, data security, data dictionaries, metadata management, data governance, and data quality.
• Proficiency in business process mapping, solution design, and data analysis.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI).
• Experience with reporting tools for analyzing datasets (Excel) and database languages (SQL).
• Excellent organization, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work well in a cross-organizational team environment.
• Entrepreneurial, self-starter that gets excited about proactively solving problems.

Professional Level V- in addition to above

• Applies advanced technical principles, theories and concepts.
• Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.
• Develops advanced concepts, techniques and standards.
• Develops new applications based on professional principles and theories.
• Viewed externally as subject matter expert in field.
• Comprehensive and advanced knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures and practices related to specific field.
• Superior leadership, project management and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to use various computer software programs.
• Applies extensive IS expertise in specific field and has full knowledge of related disciplines.
• Evaluates new hardware, software, systems tools and applications and makes procurement recommendations.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills. Skilled in analytical techniques, practices and problem solving.
• Extensive programming and architecture abilities with various computer software programs and information systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Federal or National Laboratory experience a plus.

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Job Application Submission Window

The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.

Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)

Job Profile: Professional V / Annual Salary Range: $117,200 - $211,000

Job Profile: IT Professional IV / Annual Salary Range: $97,800 - $176,000

NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

Benefits Summary

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short*- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits*; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement*. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.

* Based on eligibility rules

Badging Requirement

NREL is subject to Department of Energy (DOE) access restrictions. All employees must also be able to obtain and maintain a federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card as required by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), which includes a favorable background investigation.

Drug Free Workplace

NREL is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act and complies with federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of illegal drugs. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal drug.

If you are offered employment at NREL, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.

Submission Guidelines

Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic partner status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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