Principal Application Developer

Employment Type: Salaried
Work Arrangement: Hybrid

The Principal Developer Oracle Fusion will play a pivotal role in driving the success of Ventura Foods’ Oracle Fusion initiatives across various tracks, like O2C (Order to Cash), S2P (Source to Pay), R2R (Record to Report), H2R (Hire to Retire), Idea to Market (PLM), Oil Value Chain - Custom built solution extending Oracle Fusion cloud. This role is responsible for the overall architecture of the ERP fusion platform, leading the implementation, supporting the operations, and ongoing optimization of the Oracle fusion platform cross track collaboration. The role also will be responsible for various customizations and extensions of the platform ensuring seamless integration with critical business functions to enable growth, efficiency, and operational excellence.

As a principal oracle fusion developer, you will be a technical lead, acting as both architect and hands-on developer, shaping scalable and innovative solutions that advance our business functions like ordering, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain, inventory management, finance, and HR capabilities. You will partner closely with vendor implementation teams to validate and guide solution design, while also mentoring internal developers to elevate technical excellence within the team. In this role, you will collaborate with business stakeholders and IT leaders to translate business needs into robust, efficient, and user-friendly Oracle solutions, ensuring the platform continuously delivers measurable business value.

• Technical Solution Architecture & Development. Project Delivery & Governance:
  Responsible for technical solutions entire cycle delivery - technical analysis, design, documentation, build, validation, deployment and operational support.
  Architect and develop end-to-end Oracle fusion solutions across multiple modules / process cycles covering O2C, S2P, R2R, H2R areas.
  Design scalable and robust solutions, translating business needs into technical strategies.
  Build various CEMLI & RICE components of Oracle fusion platform, enabling enterprise business solutions.
• Technical Leadership & Governance:
  Provide technical direction, establish coding standards, perform peer reviews, and ensure architectural alignment.
  Define and manage build, deployment, and release strategies. Support automation in activities like Build & QA.
  Govern internal team deliverables and monitor vendor/partner implementations.
• Business Engagement & Requirements Translation:
  Partner with cross-functional teams (Commercial, Sales, Plant Operations, Manufacturing, Finance, Business and Technical teams) to understand business requirements.
  Translate complex business needs into technical solutions aligned with Oracle/ERP best practices.
  Collaborate with stakeholders to design user/business-centric features and optimize operations, workflows.
• Documentation, Compliance & Data Governance:
  Develop and maintain Architecture diagrams, technical solution designs, workflows, documentation, and training materials.
  Enforce data governance policies and ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Platform Operations & Optimization:
  Oversee platform administration, optimization, stability, and operational maintenance.
  Manage licenses, monitor system health, process standardization, and ensure scalability of the platform.
  Continuously enhance platform performance and user experience through proactive improvements.
  Assess platform quarterly/periodic releases and ensure timely upgrades (including intermediate patch sets).

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field (required).
• Implementation Experience: With Oracle Fusion implementations in the Manufacturing vertical, including at least two full-cycle implementation covering any (O2C, S2P, R2R, H2R, PLM) process areas. (required).
• ERP / Development Experience: 8+ years of experience with Oracle ERP solutions development, with strong understanding of platform functionality, cross-functional integrations, and process cycles. (required).
• Fusion Development Experience: 5+ years of development experience specifically on Oracle Fusion platform.(OIC, VBCS, FBDI, SQL/PLSQL, OTBI, SOAP/REST API's, Fusion Data Models Schemas). (required).
• UI Development Experience: Minimum of 1 Yr Redwood UI experience (required).
• Build & Release: Exposure to & ability to architect release automation and utilize build pipe lines. (preferred).
• Certifications: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations (preferred) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (preferred) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (preferred).

Why Join Us:
Ventura Foods innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses. We make exclusive products for the world's most iconic restaurants and retailers, we provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and we make consumer brands everyone knows and loves. When you work for Ventura Foods, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work. As part of our team, your future is limited only by how much you’re willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth because you invest in ours.

Ventura Foods offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:​

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees​
• Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)​
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays​
• Employee Appreciation Events​ and Employee Assistance Programs
• Salary Base Range of $130,874.00 - $171,772.65*

*The “base salary range” provided above is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position in the specified markets. Ventura Foods reserves the right to pay outside of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography. Ventura Foods conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.

Diversity & Inclusion:
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which all employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values. We believe that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

Ventura Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.