Senior PL/SQL Developer – 12+ Years
Job Title: Senior PL/SQL Developer / Lead Oracle Developer
Experience: 12+ Years
Job Type: W2 Contract / Full-Time
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior PL/SQL Developer with 12+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle database development, PL/SQL programming, performance tuning, and enterprise application development. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in designing complex database solutions, developing stored procedures and packages, optimizing SQL queries, and working with large-scale data environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain complex Oracle PL/SQL applications.
- Develop stored procedures, functions, packages, triggers, views, cursors, and complex SQL queries.
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable database solutions.
- Perform SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning and optimization.
- Analyze execution plans and optimize queries, indexes, partitions, and database objects.
- Develop and maintain ETL/data integration processes using Oracle technologies.
- Work with large-volume transactional and analytical databases.
- Develop data migration and conversion scripts.
- Implement database solutions following coding, security, and performance best practices.
- Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
- Participate in database design, data modeling, and technical architecture discussions.
- Perform code reviews and ensure development standards are followed.
- Collaborate with application developers, DBAs, data engineers, QA teams, and business stakeholders.
- Mentor junior developers and provide technical guidance.
- Support deployment activities across development, QA, UAT, and production environments.
Required Technical Skills
Oracle / PL/SQL
- 12+ years of strong PL/SQL development experience
- Oracle Database 11g/12c/18c/19c/21c
- Advanced SQL
- Stored Procedures
- Functions
- Packages
- Triggers
- Cursors
- Views
- Materialized Views
- Collections
- Exception Handling
- Dynamic SQL
- Database Jobs / Scheduler
- Database Links
Performance Tuning
- SQL Query Optimization
- Explain Plans
- Execution Plans
- Indexing Strategies
- Partitioning
- Optimizer Statistics
- AWR / ADDM
- Performance Troubleshooting
- High-volume data processing
Data & ETL
- ETL/ELT processes
- Data Migration
- Data Transformation
- Data Validation
- Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
- Informatica
- SQL*Loader
- External Tables
- Bulk Collect / FORALL
Development & Integration
- REST/SOAP API integration
- XML / JSON
- Java or Java-based application integration
- Unix/Linux shell scripting
- Git
- CI/CD
- Jenkins / Azure DevOps
Database & Data Modeling
- Relational Database Design
- Data Modeling
- Normalization / Denormalization
- ER Diagrams
- Logical and Physical Data Models
- Data Integrity
- Referential Integrity
- Database Security
- Transaction Management
Cloud & Modern Technologies — Preferred
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- AWS / Azure
- Autonomous Database
- Oracle Database Cloud Services
- Cloud database migration
- Modernization of legacy Oracle applications
Domain Experience
Experience in one or more of the following domains is preferred:
- Banking & Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Insurance
- Retail
- Telecom
- Government
- Manufacturing
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of professional experience in Oracle PL/SQL development.
- Strong experience working with enterprise-scale Oracle databases.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Experience leading development activities and mentoring technical teams is a plus.
