COTS/PeopleSoft Developer

COTS/PeopleSoft Developer

Location: Harrisburg, PA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 40% Onsite / 60% Remote initially; may decrease to Hybrid - 20% Onsite / 80% Remote after training and on-call readiness; Pennsylvania residency required; must live within a reasonable commuting distance of Harrisburg, PA; candidates must be able to report onsite as directed, including up to 5 days per week if organizational policy changes
Schedule: Flexible regular schedule within the team's general 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. coverage window; two-week on-call cycle approximately once every 14 weeks after training; regular hours may be adjusted following after-hours work
Interview: Virtual first interview followed by an On-site second interview for advancing candidates. The second interview includes hands-on code or SQL review. Virtual interviews require a private location, camera on, and no AI-assisted responses, AI-generated note-taking, unauthorized recording, outside assistance, or another person present.
Visas Accepted: USC/GC only; candidates must not currently or subsequently require employment sponsorship

Role Overview

Our client is seeking one practical, adaptable developer for its COTS / PeopleSoft team. This is a right-to-hire position, and candidates should be willing to consider conversion to permanent employment.

The team supports approximately 30 applications, including Oracle PeopleSoft, Jira and Confluence, and internally developed .NET applications. The selected candidate may support commercial software, internally developed applications, or both.

PeopleSoft experience is helpful but not required. Practical SQL experience, broad enterprise troubleshooting, general software-development knowledge, .NET or web-development potential, and the ability to communicate technical reasoning are more important than possessing every technology listed in the original requirements.

The current workload is approximately 50% maintenance, troubleshooting, security vulnerabilities, and technical support; 30% enhancements and modifications caused by changing business rules, often involving API changes; and 20% new application development.

Primary Responsibilities

• Learn the business rules behind large enterprise applications.
• Support commercial and internally developed systems.
• Perform maintenance, troubleshooting, technical support, and security-vulnerability work.
• Enhance and modify applications when business rules or operational requirements change.
• Participate in new application development.
• Build and maintain interfaces.
• Work with APIs and back-end services.
• Move data between applications and products.
• Write, read, and interpret SQL used within applications.
• Diagnose application errors involving SQL, code, interfaces, or system dependencies.
• Read and interpret error logs.
• Translate unclear technical errors into understandable problems.
• Explain technical reasoning, investigation steps, and possible solutions.
• Work with business analysts who gather and define requirements for application changes and new development.
• Support Oracle PeopleSoft, Jira, Confluence, and internally developed .NET applications as assigned.
• Participate in the on-call rotation after completing training.
• Communicate after-hours workload so regular working hours can be adjusted when appropriate.

Required Technical Skills

• Practical SQL experience.
• Ability to read and interpret SQL.
• Write basic SQL queries.
• Understand SELECT statements, tables, conditions, and filters.
• Review SQL used within an application.
• Reason through what a SQL statement is doing.
• Help diagnose application errors involving SQL.
• General software-development knowledge.
• Comfort working within an enterprise IT environment.
• Ability to troubleshoot and understand application errors.
• Ability to communicate technical reasoning.

Preferred Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in a technology-related discipline is preferred.
• Experience in a large IT environment.
• .NET development.
• Visual Studio.
• Web development.
• Windows Server knowledge.
• API and interface development.
• Experience moving data between systems.
• Enterprise application support.
• Experience reading technical error logs.
• Experience supporting commercial software.
• Banking, financial-services, government, or similarly regulated industry experience.
• Server-side technologies.
• Basic networking concepts.
• Understanding business rules within large applications.
• Investigate security vulnerabilities.
• PeopleSoft experience.
• Jira or Confluence experience.
• Advanced SQL knowledge.
• Extensive enterprise software experience.
• Prior on-call support experience.
• Relevant technical certifications, including certifications related to networking, security, software development, databases, systems administration, or other applicable IT disciplines.