University of Chicago · 11 hours ago
Senior PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Administrator
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$125K/yr - $133K/yr
5+ years expThe University of Chicago is a prestigious institution that collaborates with campus partners to support its mission through high-quality solutions and services. The Senior PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Administrator will design, administer, and manage the PeopleSoft application infrastructure, ensuring effective performance and supporting application teams in their development and deployment efforts.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Provides strategic leadership and direction for the administration, installation, configuration, and lifecycle management of all PeopleSoft Campus Solutions environments
Oversees planning and implementation of all application patches, and upgrades including PeopleTools and PUM images, ensuring enterprise alignment and minimizing downtime across all instances
Directs and approves migration strategies for customizations and configuration changes between environments with a focus on risk mitigation and process improvement
Leads environment refreshes, database cloning processes, and ensures robust data integrity standards
Establishes, manages, and optimizes schedules for on-call and after-hours maintenance, ensuring service continuity and stakeholder satisfaction
Develops, enforces, and continuously improves configuration management and automation standards for production, QA, and non-production environments
Oversees nightly processing cycles and infrastructure management, ensuring operational excellence within rotational on-call frameworks
Champions adherence to ITIL, institutional change management, and governance protocols
Initiates and maintains comprehensive system and process documentation, promoting knowledge sharing and audit readiness
Owns accountability for the overall health, performance, and high availability of the application portfolio
Designs and implements proactive monitoring solutions; analyzes system logs and metrics to predict, troubleshoot, and remediate performance bottlenecks, driving continuous optimization
Provides expert tier-3 support and technical guidance to functional and support teams
Architects, leads, and interprets application and infrastructure stress tests; manages escalations with third-party vendors and partners
Optimizes PeopleSoft application, database, and server configurations, leading efforts to drive operational efficiencies
Serves as the primary escalation point and liaison for Oracle technical support, coordinating resolution of complex application performance, configuration, and upgrade challenges
Co-leads application security strategy development with the Application Security Administrator; assures compliance with system access, data governance, and security frameworks
Oversees cross-functional collaboration for scheduled and emergency support and maintenance activities with internal teams, including application development, infrastructure, database, storage, network, and identity management
Leads AIS business continuity and disaster recovery planning, coordinating testing and plan updates in partnership with IT Services and institutional stakeholders
Administers operating systems, maintains security, and implements backup procedures for the organization's information systems and peripheral equipment, such as servers, desktops, printers, and storage devices
Tracks compliance and maintains documentation for hardware, software, and service inventories for management reports
Performs other related work as needed
Qualification
Required
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field
Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline
Provides strategic leadership and direction for the administration, installation, configuration, and lifecycle management of all PeopleSoft Campus Solutions environments
Oversees planning and implementation of all application patches, and upgrades including PeopleTools and PUM images, ensuring enterprise alignment and minimizing downtime across all instances
Directs and approves migration strategies for customizations and configuration changes between environments with a focus on risk mitigation and process improvement
Leads environment refreshes, database cloning processes, and ensures robust data integrity standards
Establishes, manages, and optimizes schedules for on-call and after-hours maintenance, ensuring service continuity and stakeholder satisfaction
Develops, enforces, and continuously improves configuration management and automation standards for production, QA, and non-production environments
Oversees nightly processing cycles and infrastructure management, ensuring operational excellence within rotational on-call frameworks
Champions adherence to ITIL, institutional change management, and governance protocols
Initiates and maintains comprehensive system and process documentation, promoting knowledge sharing and audit readiness
Owns accountability for the overall health, performance, and high availability of the application portfolio
Designs and implements proactive monitoring solutions; analyzes system logs and metrics to predict, troubleshoot, and remediate performance bottlenecks, driving continuous optimization
Provides expert tier-3 support and technical guidance to functional and support teams
Architects, leads, and interprets application and infrastructure stress tests; manages escalations with third-party vendors and partners
Optimizes PeopleSoft application, database, and server configurations, leading efforts to drive operational efficiencies
Serves as the primary escalation point and liaison for Oracle technical support, coordinating resolution of complex application performance, configuration, and upgrade challenges
Co-leads application security strategy development with the Application Security Administrator; assures compliance with system access, data governance, and security frameworks
Oversees cross-functional collaboration for scheduled and emergency support and maintenance activities with internal teams, including application development, infrastructure, database, storage, network, and identity management
Leads AIS business continuity and disaster recovery planning, coordinating testing and plan updates in partnership with IT Services and institutional stakeholders
Administers operating systems, maintains security, and implements backup procedures for the organization's information systems and peripheral equipment, such as servers, desktops, printers, and storage devices
Tracks compliance and maintains documentation for hardware, software, and service inventories for management reports
Performs other related work as needed
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field
Extensive experience with tools and alternatives for managing and maintaining and troubleshooting application integrations with PeopleSoft
Leading application administration for complex enterprise-level business systems, such as student information systems like PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, human resource management systems, payroll systems, financial applications, or other institutional-critical platforms
Executing advanced system administration duties, including end-to-end software installation, configuration, system integration, data integrity verification, data reconciliation, patch and upgrade management, and troubleshooting for enterprise applications
Managing technical support operations for high-availability applications, ensuring minimal downtime, quick resolution of incidents, and effective escalation handling across teams
Developing and documenting administration processes, automating routine tasks, and implementing best practices for scalability, compliance, and business continuity
Background working in higher education environments
Familiarity with the following technologies: Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle PeopleTools, Oracle database 11g or greater, Integration Broker, Change Assistant, Upgrade Assistant
Coordinating and overseeing application lifecycle management activities, such as environment refreshes, database cloning, release planning, and change management in accordance with organizational and ITIL standards
Administering web application servers, preferably Oracle WebLogic, including deployment, tuning, security hardening, and troubleshooting in enterprise or academic environments
Utilizing server scripting languages such as PowerShell, Perl, CSH, or BASH to automate administrative tasks, system monitoring, log analysis, and process optimization
Supporting and managing different server operating systems, Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or other UNIX/Linux environments, ensuring stability, security, and integration with enterprise applications
Demonstrated knowledge of IT infrastructure hardware, including hands-on experience configuring and maintaining servers, storage systems, network devices, and backup/restore operations to ensure robust application performance and data availability
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement infrastructure upgrades, troubleshoot hardware/software integration issues, and contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing initiatives
Application Administrator understanding of common technologies used by applications, including backups and event monitoring
Understanding of one or more database applications and relational database concepts such as SQL, ORACLE
Expertise with writing and reading PL/SQL, SQL, and Unix shell scripts
Understanding of the PeopleSoft and Oracle Data Dictionaries
Expertise with PeopleSoft application security functionality and best practices
Thorough understanding of the PeopleSoft architecture and diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks within the application including troubleshooting/tuning of Process Schedulers, Web Server, App Servers, and working with DBAs for database-related issues
Understanding of SQL Optimization techniques for PeopleSoft applications
Benefits
Health
Retirement
Paid time off
Company
University of Chicago
One of the world’s great intellectual destinations, the University of Chicago empowers scholars and students to ask tough questions, cross disciplinary boundaries, and challenge conventional thinking to enrich human life around the globe.
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