The Company
Our client was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco. They describe themself as a “Retail Maximization Company,” focused on helping retailers, brands, and CPG companies improve digital revenue, customer experience, operational efficiency, and technology modernization. Their core positioning is highly retail-specialized rather than being a general-purpose IT services company. They emphasize deep expertise in: retail commerce, omnichannel systems, supply chain technology, AI and data platforms, experience design, cloud modernization, digital engineering, performance engineering, eCommerce migration, and upgrades.
The Role
The Technical Lead owns the architecture, delivery, and technical governance of Oracle Retail solutions. The role focuses primarily on RMS and Allocation, while also overseeing integration and technical direction across the full Oracle Retail v11 suite.
Retail Process Knowledge:
- Pack Management
- Purchase orders and allocations
- Inventory management
Key Responsibilities
- Own technical architecture and solution design for RMS, Allocation, and their integration with other Oracle Retail modules.
- Lead a team of developers by assigning work, reviewing deliverables, mentoring junior and senior team members, and ensuring adherence to coding and design standards.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs and drive high-level and low-level design documentation.
- Act as the primary technical escalation point for critical production issues across RMS, Allocation, and integrated modules.
- Drive system-wide performance tuning strategy across SQL, PL/SQL, batch processing, and RIB messaging.
- Lead impact analysis, effort estimation, and technical feasibility assessments for new projects and enhancements.
- Oversee patch management, version upgrade planning, and environment and release strategy across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production environments.
- Coordinate with functional leads, project managers, and Oracle Support on strategic issues and roadmap planning.
- Define and enforce best practices for integration, data governance, and system reliability across the Oracle Retail landscape.
- Own technical documentation standards, knowledge repositories, and team onboarding and training.
- Support pre-sales and solutioning efforts, where applicable, by providing technical inputs and effort estimates.
Requirements
Core Skills:
- Deep expertise in PL/SQL, SQL, and RMS and Allocation architecture.
- Strong command of the full Oracle Retail v11 suite.
- Integration design using RIB.
- Performance engineering.
- Team leadership.
- Stakeholder management.
- Unix scripting.
- Batch scheduling using Autosys or Control-M.