Oracle Banking Technical Consultant - Egypt (Contractor)

Responsibilities Analyse customer requirements and prepare technical specifications and solution design documents. Assess requirements against existing product capabilities and recommend configuration, extensibility or custom development approaches. Design, develop, test and deploy customisations and enhancements within the Oracle FLEXCUBE UBS framework. Develop and optimise Oracle SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures, functions, triggers and views. Integrate application processing logic with three-tier architectures and third-party systems. Plan and execute banking data migration activities, including source-to-target mapping, transformation, validation, data quality checks and reconciliation. Investigate and resolve migration discrepancies, application defects and complex production issues. Develop and execute unit test plans and support integration, regression and customer testing within agreed project schedules. Review test plans with quality assurance teams and ensure that delivered solutions meet functional and technical requirements. Follow established development standards, documentation practices, change control procedures and applicable quality, audit and compliance requirements. Lead and mentor a small team of developers, providing technical guidance and reviewing deliverables. Collaborate across functional, technical and customer teams, participating in and leading project discussions as required. Required Qualifications and Skills 10–14 years of relevant experience in software development, implementation or production support, including hands-on experience with core banking products. Strong Oracle SQL and PL/SQL development skills, including stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, query optimisation and debugging. Hands-on experience delivering data migration projects in the banking domain. Good understanding of banking products and processes, including current and savings accounts (CASA), loans, payments and deposits. Experience in data mapping, transformation, data quality validation and reconciliation. Familiarity with data migration tools and scripting. Development experience with JavaScript, XML and web services. Experience integrating processing logic within three-tier application architectures. Ability to translate business requirements into clear technical designs and implementation specifications. Experience guiding developers and taking ownership of technical deliverables. Strong analytical, problem-solving, presentation and communication skills. Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with customers and distributed project teams. Preferred Qualifications Development, implementation or production support experience with Oracle FLEXCUBE UBS. Experience with Java, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and RESTful web services. Working knowledge of Oracle development tools and application deployments on Oracle WebLogic Server. Experience with Oracle BI Publisher or Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). Experience developing and implementing interfaces with third-party systems. Additional Requirements Willingness to travel to customer or prospective customer locations for implementations, product walkthroughs and proofs of concept, as required. Flexibility to work shifts according to project and customer requirements.