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Southern Company

Runs electric and gas utilities across the Southeast

Oracle Cloud ERP Developer

Full-TimePosted on 10/12/2026Deadline 10/27/26
No salary listed
Senior, Expert
Bachelor's
Birmingham, AL, USA+1 moreMore locations: Atlanta, GA, USA
HybridOnsite four days per week.
IT OperationsEnterprise Applications

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 7–10+ years of ERP development experience, including significant hands-on Oracle Cloud ERP experience.
  • Deep expertise in Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials modules, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), BI Publisher, OTBI, and SQL-based data modeling.
  • Strong understanding of SaaS extensibility, Oracle security models, and upgrade-safe design.
  • Proven ability to lead complex technical designs and integrations in an enterprise environment.
  • Working familiarity with approved AI productivity tools such as Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar tools to support ERP development, SQL/reporting logic, troubleshooting, and documentation.
  • Awareness of Oracle-native AI capabilities, such as Fusion AI features, AI Agents, and OCI Generative AI, and how they can be applied within Oracle Cloud ERP solutions.
  • Ability to use clear, context-aware prompts and independently validate AI-assisted outputs for accuracy, security, and fit within Oracle Cloud ERP standards.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
  • Act as a senior technical authority for Oracle Cloud ERP design, extensions, and integrations.
  • Lead solution design for complex enhancements, integrations, and automation initiatives.
  • Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, upgrade-safe technical solutions.
  • Contribute to architecture standards, extensibility guidelines, and technical governance.
  • Participate in design reviews, architectural forums, and platform roadmap discussions.
  • Evaluate and design ERP solutions that leverage Oracle-native AI capabilities, including Fusion AI features, AI Agents, and OCI Generative AI, where they add business value.
  • Design and develop extensions using Oracle-approved tools and frameworks, including Visual Builder and Visual Builder Studio (VBCS), Groovy scripting for object workflows, validations, and triggers where applicable, Fast Formulas where applicable, and Oracle Application Express development and modifications.
  • Lead development and advanced configuration across Oracle Fusion Cloud modules, including Financials such as Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Payables (AP), Receivables (AR), General Ledger (GL), Assets, and Cash Management; Procurement, Supplier Information Management (SIM), and Expenses; and applicable Supply Chain modules.
  • Ensure designs align with Oracle best practices and remain upgrade-safe across quarterly releases, including thoughtful adoption of Oracle-native AI features and AI-assisted tools to accelerate code review, documentation, or impact analysis where useful.
  • Architect, develop, and support integrations using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), REST and SOAP APIs, File-Based Data Import (FBDI), and data conversion frameworks.
  • Serve as the technical lead for complex integration and data issues, including root-cause analysis, error handling and reconciliation, performance optimization, and selective AI-assisted analysis of recurring integration or FBDI error patterns.
  • Partner with upstream and downstream system owners to ensure reliable and secure data exchanges.
  • Lead the design and development of advanced reporting solutions using BI Publisher, including complex data models, bursting, and scheduling, as well as OTBI and subject-area optimization.
  • Drive operational-efficiency automation initiatives focused on exception reduction and straight-through processing, applying AI/ML and Oracle-native AI capabilities where they can deliver measurable efficiency.
  • Improve data quality, usability, and performance across ERP solutions.
  • Lead technical delivery within Agile and SAFe product teams.
  • Support testing strategy, defect resolution, and production-readiness activities.
  • Ensure adherence to security, audit, and SOX-related controls, including responsible review of AI-assisted or AI-generated outputs before use in controlled ERP environments.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, and operational runbooks.
  • Mentor junior developers and serve as a technical escalation point for the team.
  • Partner with architecture, security, audit, and operations teams to support enterprise governance.
Desired Qualifications
  • Oracle Cloud certifications in Financials, SCM, OIC, or Analytics.
  • Experience with Oracle Redwood UX adoption and extensions, supplier master data governance, or large, multi-BU Oracle Cloud implementations.
  • Experience delivering AI/ML-enabled ERP solutions, or hands-on work with Oracle AI Agents, OCI Generative AI, or embedded Fusion AI features.
  • Familiarity with regulated or audit-heavy environments, including SOX and financial controls.
  • Prior experience mentoring developers or serving in a technical lead role.

About the company

Southern Company owns regulated electric and natural gas utilities that serve homes and businesses across the southeastern United States, chiefly through Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Mississippi Power. Its Southern Nuclear unit runs eight nuclear reactors at three plants in Georgia and Alabama for its sister utilities. The electric utilities generate power from gas, nuclear, coal, hydro and solar plants and deliver it over their own transmission and distribution lines, while state regulators set the rates customers pay and the returns the company earns. A separate gas arm distributes natural gas in several states. Southern Company was formed in 1945 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Atlanta, Georgia

Founded

1912

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What believers are saying

  • Profits are climbing: earnings for April through June 2026 reached $1.2 billion, up from $0.9 billion a year earlier.
  • Cheap federal debt funds expansion: a $26.5 billion Energy Department loan in February 2026 backs 16 gigawatts of projects.
  • A long build-out means years of project work: Southern raised its five-year spending plan to $81 billion in February 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Growth leans on a few tech giants: Google, Meta and Microsoft anchor its 10 gigawatts of large-load contracts.
  • Household bills draw political heat: Georgia's governor joined a July 2026 pledge to shield residents from data-center power costs.
  • Labor talks are coming: union contracts covering about 32% of Southern staff expire between 2026 and 2030.

What makes Southern Company unique

  • Southern built the only US reactors finished since 2016: Vogtle Units 3 and 4, in service by April 2024.
  • Georgia Power's prices are set by elected officials: voters choose the five Public Service Commissioners who approve its rates.
  • Southern's gas business reaches beyond its power region: its Nicor Gas utility serves northern Illinois.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Performance Bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Hybrid Work Options

Company News

Chief Executive Group
Oct 5th, 2026
Southern Company CEO Chris Womack: 'never stop raising the bar'

Southern Company CEO Chris Womack: 'never stop raising the bar' Womack leads the energy company with one maxim above all others: Great is not good enough if you stop getting better. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who receive an award and see it as a chance to take a break. And those who see it as a reason to work that much harder. Southern Company CEO Chris Womack is most assuredly in the latter category. He leads his prolific energy company with one maxim above all others: Great is not good enough if you stop getting better. Womack knows what he's talking about. Southern Company, which serves more than nine million customers across the U.S., was recently ranked No. 1 in the oil and gas industry on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list. That's a real feather in the cap. Womack and his staff achieved this mark through the idea that "getting better" is not just a slogan. Instead, Womack pushes his staff to clearly define "better," benchmark it and show others how to achieve it. Of course, this is the kind of focus that comes from someone who has been with an organization for several decades. Indeed, the Alabama-born CEO has had Southern Company on his business card since 1988. Let that sink in - that's 38 years of service. "We challenge ourselves very, very forthrightly about not becoming complacent," Womack explained to me on a recent episode of the Corporate Competitor Podcast. "Especially in terms of not relishing being No. 1." Athletes will tell you. Any team can come from behind to beat you. No lead is totally safe. Womack, a former player for Western Michigan University on the baseball diamond, knows that well. That's why he doesn't believe any victory is worth a day off. "We have to keep getting better," he told me. "We have to keep moving the bar, raising the bar, elevating the bar, stepping up our game to continue to be successful." Womack talked about all this and more on the podcast, including: - Be adaptable. He believes that adaptability is a strength for both individuals and businesses. The CEO, who had to adapt when he left rural Alabama for college in Michigan, benefited from being malleable then. As a hitter, you never know what pitch is coming at you next. The same is true in business. - Vulnerability is not weakness. Over the years, Womack has learned that sharing stories, fears, hopes - these things strengthen bonds and relationships. They demonstrate a shared humanity. So, as a leader in business, he doesn't shy away from vulnerable moments. He leans into them. "We're all in this together," he says. - Employees are people. In the old days, many companies told their employees to leave their baggage at the door. But Womack calls this practice "completely unrealistic," adding, "that's not real life." Instead, he fosters an environment where employees are free to express what's going on in their lives outside of the job. That way their workplace feels more like home. Over the last 30 years, longtime Associate Editor for Sports Illustrated and 13-time New York Times Best-Selling Author Don Yaeger has been blessed to interview the greatest winners of its generation. He has made a second career as a keynote speaker and executive coach, discerning habits of high performance to teach teams how to reach their full potential.

Carpenter Media Group
Oct 1st, 2026
Georgia regents name former Southern Company leader Fanning as next chancellor.

Georgia regents name former Southern Company leader Fanning as next chancellor. Published 1:28 pm Thursday, October 1, 2026 By Ty Tagami, Capitol Beat News Service | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... | ATLANTA - Georgia's Board of Regents formalized the hiring Thursday of the next leader of the state's 25 public colleges and universities, naming Thomas A. Fanning as chancellor. The former president and CEO of Southern Company will take control of the University System of Georgia on Jan. 1, the day after Sonny Perdue retires. The regents named Fanning sole finalist last month. "As a proud USG graduate, I know firsthand the transformative power of this system," Fanning said in a statement. The Georgia Tech graduate, who went on to earn a master's degree there, said his priorities are to ensure college remains accessible, to support innovation and to drive the state's economy with talented graduates. Fanning led Southern Company from 2010 to 2023. He also chaired the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. After leading the university system for four years, Perdue announced his retirement in April, prompting a five-month search for his successor. Perdue served as agriculture secretary for President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House and as Georgia's first Republican governor since Reconstruction starting in 2003.

[your]NEWS
Sep 15th, 2026
Southern Company secures record $26.5B DOE loan for data centre power build-out

The US Department of Energy has approved a $26.5 billion loan to Southern Company through Georgia Power and Alabama Power, the largest in the agency's history. Georgia Power receives approximately $22.4 billion whilst Alabama Power gets roughly $4.1 billion. The 30-year loans will finance over 16 gigawatts of power capacity, including gas turbines, nuclear upgrades, batteries, and 1,300 miles of transmission infrastructure. Officials tout $7 billion in customer savings and $300 million annual interest cost reductions for Southern Company. The financing targets data centre growth and manufacturing expansion. Critics argue the subsidised borrowing costs benefit shareholders whilst construction costs enter the rate base, ultimately paid by customers. Current rate freezes in Georgia and Alabama have expiration dates. The loan reduces Southern Company's borrowing costs but doesn't guarantee lower household bills, as assets remain company-owned and ratepayer-funded.

BayStreet.ca
Aug 24th, 2026
Robinhood, Coinbase jumped, Marvell and edison slumped.

Robinhood, Coinbase jumped, Marvell and edison slumped. The wild price swings among the sectors continued in the last day. Discount trading firms Robinhood (HOOD) and Futu Holdings (FUTU) broke out of their recent uptrend. Renewed momentum for the U.S. Clarity Act, which regulates cryptocurrencies, lifted those stocks. Higher crypto trading volumes would increase revenues for Robinhood and Coinbase (COIN). HOOD stock gained 13% in the last week while COIN stock jumped by 25.6%. Short interest on Coinbase shares is at 10.12%. In the storage sector, Marvell Technology (MRVL) fell to its 50-day moving average, down by 5.57% last Friday. The firm will expand its range of custom silicon programs that attach to Alphabet's (GOOG) TPU chip. That includes AI inference accelerators, storage and network controllers, and near-memory compute. Edison International (EIX) revisited the $70 lows. Earlier this month, the LA County report wrote that electrical sparks from EIX's out-of-service transmission tower caused California's Eaton fire. The firm already took responsibility for the fire. It offered more than $775 million in funds to support the Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program. EIX stock is a compelling investment. Its dividend yields 4.83%. The firm has good value, strong profitability, and saw bullish EPS and revenue revisions from analysts in the last three months. Edison's peers include PG&E (PCG), ConEd (ED), and The Southern Company (SO).

Chase
Aug 4th, 2026
Southern Company prices $2.38B in convertible notes to refinance debt and fund operations

Southern Company has priced $725 million in Series 2026A 2.125% Convertible Senior Notes due December 2027 and $1.65 billion in Series 2026B 3.50% Convertible Senior Notes due September 2029. The offerings represent upsizes of $75 million and $150 million respectively over previously announced sizes. The Series 2026A notes have an initial conversion price of approximately $104.56 per share, a 12.5% premium above the 3 August 2026 closing price. The Series 2026B notes have an initial conversion price of approximately $118.50 per share, a 27.5% premium. Southern Company will use approximately $403 million of proceeds to repurchase its Series 2024A Convertible Senior Notes. The remaining funds will repay short-term debt and support general corporate purposes. The offerings are expected to close on 6 August 2026.