Contractor - JD Edwards (JDE WorldSoft) Consultant Job

Experience

Experience:  7 - 10 Years

We are seeking an experienced JD Edwards (JDE WorldSoft) Consultant with strong expertise in upgrade and migration projects, specifically involving JDE WorldSoft A8.1 to A9.4 upgrades and cloud (Azure) migration. The role involves executing lift-and-shift migrations, database transitions, and technical upgrades, ensuring a seamless transition to modern cloud environments.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• JDE Upgrade & Migration Execution

  • Lead and execute JDE WorldSoft upgrades from A8.1 to A9.4 using standard methodologies.
  • Perform Lift & Shift migration of JDE applications and DB2 databases to Azure cloud environments.
  • Execute upgrade utilities, scripts, and data model transformations during upgrade cycles.

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  2. Discovery & Assessment

  • Analyze existing JDE landscape including:
  • Modules, custom objects, UBEs, security, menus, integrations.
  • Conduct data assessment (DB2 schemas, volumes, data quality) and define migration strategy.  
  • Prepare migration runbooks, rollback strategies, and cutover plans.

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  3. Environment Setup & Configuration

  • Install and configure:
  • JDE WorldSoft environments
  • DB2 database instances
  • Perform baseline technical configurations (pathcodes, environments, queues, printers).

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  4. Testing & Validation

  • Conduct:
  • Technical smoke testing
  • Pre- and post-upgrade validation
  • Support data reconciliation and discrepancy analysis.
  • Coordinate with business teams for UAT readiness and sign-offs.

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  5. Cutover & Go-Live Support

  • Execute cutover activities and migration runbook.
  • Perform final validations and support go-live transition to JDE A9.4 on Azure.
  • Provide knowledge transfer and documentation post-deployment.

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  6. Risk Management & Troubleshooting

  • Identify and mitigate risks related to:
  • Data inconsistency
  • Upgrade regressions
  • Integration failures
  • Cloud performance issues

  Perform root cause analysis and issue resolution during migration lifecycle

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Required Skills:

• • Strong experience in:
  • JD Edwards WorldSoft (A8.1, A9.4)
  • JDE upgrades and patching
  • Hands-on expertise in:
  • DB2 database administration & migration
  • JDE UBEs, batch jobs, and system configuration
  • Experience with:
  • Azure cloud infrastructure (IaaS)
  • Linux (preferably Red Hat) environment setup
  • Understanding of:
  • JDE security, menus, and integrations

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  Functional & Analytical Skills

  • Strong understanding of JDE data structures and business flows
  • Ability to perform data validation and reconciliation
  • Experience with migration planning, runbooks, and cutover strategies

Preffered Qualifications:

• Experience in large-scale ERP cloud migration projects
• Exposure to integration validation and interface migration
• Prior experience in financial services or enterprise environments

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability: 

• Being a role model for taking initiative and ensuring others take initiative, removing obstacles for others, taking ownership for results and deadlines for self and others, and acting as a role model for being responsible.
• Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies and proactively support resolution.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment.
• Strong ownership and accountability mindset.

Agility:

• Works with a diverse set of situations, people and groups and adapts and motivates self and team to thrive in changing environment.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Customer Focus:

• Engages in executive customer discovery to predict future needs of customers and drives customer relationships with a long-term focus and takes actions to enhance customer loyalty.

Communication:

• Communicates and presents complex ideas, information, and data to multiple, broad, and demanding stakeholders internal and/or external to the Organization.
• Helps others communicate better with their audience. Demonstrates honest, direct, and transparent communication and facilitates conversations within the team and its close collaborators.

Drives Results:

• Proactively seeks challenging and differentiated opportunities and drives and motivates team members to take on more responsibility.

Resolves Conflict:

• Balances the business interests of all stakeholders and manages any conflicts offering mutually beneficial options.

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