Oracle EPM FreeForm Senior Support Consultant

Oracle EPM FreeForm Senior

Support Consultant

Location: Hyderabad / Vizag / Remote

Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract-to-Hire (CTH) / Contract

Preferred: Contract-to-Hire (CTH)

Experience: 8+ Years

Shift: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM IST

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Oracle EPM FreeForm Support Consultant with strong hands-on experience in BSO and ASO cubes, advanced Groovy and MDX scripting, calculation management, performance optimization, integrations, and production support.

The consultant will be responsible for resolving complex production issues, supporting business users, performing RCA, managing deployments and migrations, and developing enhancements across Oracle EPM FreeForm environments.

Mandatory Technical Skills

BSO – Block Storage Option

• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle EPM FreeForm / Essbase BSO cubes.
• Advanced Groovy scripting – mandatory.
• Strong experience with Business Rules and Calculation Manager.
• Development and implementation of Runtime Prompts (RTPs).
• Experience in BSO calculation performance tuning and optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Data Maps and Smart Push.
• Strong knowledge of EPM Automate and REST APIs.
• Troubleshooting complex calculation failures, data issues and business-rule errors.
• Experience with BSO cube design, calculations and data management.

ASO – Aggregate Storage Option

• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle EPM FreeForm / Essbase ASO cubes.
• Advanced MDX development – mandatory.
• Experience developing and troubleshooting ASO custom formulas.
• Strong understanding of ASO cube design, optimization and aggregation strategies.
• Experience with ASO performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Experience with data synchronization between BSO and ASO cubes.
• Ability to analyze and optimize ASO queries and reporting performance.

Production Support Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 production support for Oracle EPM FreeForm applications.
• Resolve P1–P4 incidents within defined SLAs.
• Troubleshoot complex application, calculation, data and performance issues.
• Perform detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Support production deployments, migrations and release activities.
• Perform monthly Oracle EPM patch validation and post-patch testing.
• Provide user support and resolve functional/technical issues.
• Develop and implement enhancements and change requests.
• Monitor and improve cube, calculation and application performance.
• Support data integrations and data synchronization activities.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, business and client teams to resolve critical issues.
• Maintain technical documentation, support procedures and knowledge repositories.
• Conduct knowledge transfer to support teams and stakeholders.

Required Professional Skills

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to independently handle complex production issues.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a production-support environment.
• Strong understanding of incident, problem and change management processes.
• Ability to analyze performance issues and recommend sustainable solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Oracle EPM Cloud / Planning / FreeForm production environments.
• Experience with EPM Automate, REST APIs and automation.
• Experience with Oracle EPM upgrades, patches and migrations.
• Experience working in enterprise production-support environments.
• Oracle EPM / Essbase certification is a plus.

Requirements

Candidates must have strong hands-on production experience with both BSO and ASO, including advanced Groovy and MDX. Profiles with only functional EPM experience or limited production support exposure should not be considered.