Oracle APEX Operations Technical Leader

Oracle APEX Operations Technical Leader

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Baker Hughes is the leading energy technology company, who delivers across the energy value chain through our market-leading business segments. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries. Our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward! Making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

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We operate at the heart of the digital transformation of our business. From Digital Engineering to enabling employee success, the Digital Technology team is driven to provide the best products and services. We collaborate with teams to solve complex technical challenges and design future innovations. 

As a Digital Technology Senior Specialist, you will also be responsible for:

•  Owning the operational health, reliability, security, performance, and lifecycle of a portfolio of enterprise Oracle APEX applications. 

• Leading AppOps, DevOps, and DevSecOps practices and coordinating internal teams and suppliers across development, support, infrastructure, database, cloud, and cybersecurity. 

• Leading incident management and major-incident response, including prioritization, service restoration, stakeholder communication, escalation, and post-incident review. 

• Owning problem management, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, knowledge management, and initiatives that reduce recurring incidents. 

• Governing change and release management through impact and risk assessment, implementation planning, testing evidence, approvals, deployment coordination, rollback readiness, and post-implementation validation. 

• Defining and monitoring service levels and operational KPIs, including availability, performance, incident volume, resolution time, change success, backlog, vulnerability remediation, and operational risk. 

• Driving CI/CD, source control, automated testing, deployment automation, environment management, and repeatable release practices for Oracle APEX solutions. 

• Embedding security throughout the application lifecycle through secure coding, access controls, vulnerability management, dependency governance, security testing, and remediation tracking. 

• Acting as the technical authority for Oracle APEX, Oracle Database, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle REST Data Services, integrations, and related cloud technologies. 

• Leading complex troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, technology upgrades, and obsolescence remediation with minimum business disruption. 

• Partnering with technical leaders, product owners, enterprise architects, business stakeholders, service-management teams, and governance functions to prioritize operational improvements and technical investments. 

• Mentoring engineers, setting clear technical and operational expectations, and fostering accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and automation. 

• Representing the application portfolio in change advisory boards, architecture reviews, service reviews, risk forums, audits, and cross-functional technology initiatives. 

Fuel your passion! 

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 

• Have significant experience supporting and technically leading enterprise applications, including at least five years working with Oracle APEX and Oracle Database technologies. 

• Have proven ownership of production application operations in a complex enterprise environment, including incident, problem, change, release, and service-level management. 

• Demonstrate the ability to lead major incidents, coordinate cross-functional technical teams, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions. 

• Have advanced proficiency in Oracle APEX, SQL, and PL/SQL, including application architecture, database object design, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and scalable solution design. 

• Have strong knowledge of Oracle APEX security, including authentication, authorization, role-based access control, session protection, secure coding, data protection, and API security. 

• Have experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment automation, environment promotion, release governance, and rollback planning. 

• Have practical DevSecOps experience, including vulnerability assessment, secure development controls, patching, dependency management, security remediation, and risk-based prioritization. 

• Have experience establishing monitoring, logging, alerting, runbooks, service KPIs, operational dashboards, support models, and disaster-recovery procedures. 

• Have experience integrating Oracle APEX applications with enterprise systems through REST APIs, SOAP services, Oracle REST Data Services, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle API gateway or similar technologies. 

• Have working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or comparable cloud platforms and their application, database, identity, networking, monitoring, and security services. 

• Have experience defining technical standards, conducting architecture and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering and operational practices across an application portfolio. 

• Demonstrate sound judgment in technology decisions through due diligence, risk assessment, business-impact evaluation, and lifecycle planning. 
• Have strong analytical, leadership, collaboration, supplier-management, and stakeholder-communication skills, with fluency in English. 
• ITIL Foundation or equivalent service-management experience is preferred.

 Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too.

 Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect. 

Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

Comprehensive private medical care options

Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

Tailored financial programs

Additional elected or voluntary benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Digital Technology Senior Specialist - Application Operations Engineering