Functional Developer

Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada; Hybrid

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.  

We are seeking an experienced Functional Developer to play a key role in the evolution and enhancement of our Oracle JD Edwards (JDE), applying seasoned functional expertise consistent with an experienced professional role. The ideal candidate will have deep, practical experience as an Oracle JDE Implementer with strong skills and application knowledge in Oracle JDE Contract Billing (CB), General Ledger (GL), Address Book (AB), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Reporting, Purchasing, Electronic e-invoicing, Security, ALLOut security, and Audit compliance to meet the needs of our business.  

This position requires collaborating with business, business analysts and technical teams to independently analyze complex business requirements, interpret information, and determine appropriate functional solution approaches within established standards and guidelines.

This role will primarily oversee, configure, and design functional solutions as the functional subject matter expert in Oracle JD Edwards. The Functional Developer will provide an interactive gateway with end user groups on helping align business processes with Oracle JDE functionalities, adopt best practices, and keep abreast of Oracle JDE relevant module enhancements, directions, and updates. 

Your Key Responsibilities

• Recommend Oracle JDE functionalities and capabilities to meet new business requirements, improve existing business processes and/or address application problems, using independent judgment to evaluate alternatives and determine appropriate solution approaches within established guidelines.
• Be part of a team responsible for recommending solution designs to the business based on Oracle best practices leveraging out-of-the-box functionality, where appropriate, to address gaps. 
• Develop impact analysis and implement strategies to manage change for large new system implementations or small functionality changes.
• Develop functional design documents in collaboration with developers and other analysts. 
• Contribute to the end-to-end delivery of JDE solutions along with developers, testers, database administrators, and application support analysts. 
• Monitor, analyze, and advise on testing of application patches/upgrades.
• Document and configure the application to meet requirements.
• Work closely with developers on custom applications to translate business requirements into detailed system requirements and design. 
• Collaborate with business analysts and quality assurance analysts to understand business requirements, develop and execute test strategies/plans, and effectively present and discuss technical solutions with business stakeholders.
• Monitor patch releases from Oracle and provide impact assessment to management.  
• Provide production support to identify and resolve application data quality issues, application system and reporting errors.
• Work collaboratively with the management team to assist them in managing priorities, resources, and cross project dependencies. 

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