Senior Developer

Job Title: Senior Developer

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Blue Yonder Developer with strong hands-on expertise in Blue Yonder Demand Planning / Demand Sensing and Oracle PL/SQL development.

The role will be responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, and supporting demand-planning solutions, with particular focus on Blue Yonder application development, demand-planning data processing, database development, interfaces, batch processes, performance optimization, and production support.

The ideal candidate should combine strong technical development capability with a good understanding of supply-chain demand-planning concepts and be comfortable troubleshooting complex issues across the Blue Yonder application and Oracle database layers.

Key Responsibilities

1. Blue Yonder Demand & Demand Sensing Development

Design, develop, enhance and maintain solutions within Blue Yonder/JDA Demand Planning and Demand Sensing.

Work on technical configurations and customizations required to support business demand-planning processes.

Develop and maintain demand-planning data flows, interfaces, batch processes and application components.

Translate functional/business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Perform impact analysis and technical design for enhancements and change requests.

Support solution testing across development, SIT, UAT and production environments.

2. Oracle PL/SQL Development

Design and develop complex Oracle SQL and PL/SQL components, including:

Packages

Procedures

Functions

Triggers

Views

Complex queries

Joins and aggregations

MERGE operations

Bulk processing

Analyze and optimize SQL/PLSQL for high-volume planning data.

Troubleshoot database performance issues and improve query execution efficiency.

Develop robust exception handling, logging and data-validation mechanisms.

Perform data analysis and reconciliation between upstream/downstream systems and Blue Yonder.

Your previous BY sourcing material specifically surfaced practical experience with PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, MERGEs and joins, so I would retain these explicitly rather than simply writing "Oracle knowledge." [RE: Live S...lue Yonder | Outlook]

3. Demand Planning Technical Support

Investigate and resolve complex application and data-related production incidents.

Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent technical fixes.

Analyze forecast/demand data issues and identify problems across application, database, interface and batch-processing layers.

Monitor critical jobs and proactively identify processing failures or data inconsistencies.

Support production releases, deployments and post-deployment validation.

4. Technical Design & Engineering Quality

Create technical design documents and development specifications.

Follow coding standards and development best practices.

Conduct code reviews and ensure maintainability, performance and reliability of solutions.

Perform unit testing and support integration and regression testing.

Identify technical risks and propose appropriate mitigation.

This aligns with your earlier internal BY JD, which specifically emphasized coding standards, technical reviews, quality assurance and risk mitigation. [RE: Live S...lue Yonder | Outlook], [Live Sourc...lue Yonder | Meeting]

5. Collaboration & Senior Developer Responsibilities

Work closely with functional consultants, business analysts, architects and support teams.

Participate in requirement/design discussions and challenge technically inefficient solutions.

Guide junior developers on Blue Yonder and Oracle development.

Support estimation, planning and technical breakdown of development activities.

Coordinate with upstream/downstream application teams to troubleshoot integration issues.

Contribute to continuous improvement, automation and reduction of recurring production issues.

Must-Have Skills

I would make these non-negotiable screening criteria:

Strong hands-on experience in Blue Yonder / JDA Demand Planning

Hands-on development experience in Blue Yonder Demand or Demand Sensing

Strong Oracle SQL and PL/SQL development

Strong experience developing:

Packages

Procedures

Functions

Complex SQL

MERGE statements

Performance-optimized database code

Experience working with large-volume transactional/planning datasets

Strong debugging and root-cause-analysis capability

Experience with batch processes and interfaces

Understanding of Supply Chain Demand Planning

Experience across development, testing, deployment and production-support lifecycle

Supply Chain Functional Knowledge

The candidate should have working knowledge of:

Demand Planning

Demand Sensing

Statistical forecasting

Forecast consumption/adjustments

Forecast accuracy concepts

Historical demand and demand signals

Promotions/events affecting demand

Demand hierarchies and planning dimensions

Master and transactional data used within demand-planning systems