Job Description
POSITION PURPOSE
Performs full life cycle software development. Reviews, evaluates, designs, develops, tests, and implements department, and enterprise applications and solutions. Develops solutions by guiding development of program specifications; validating design and architecture; overseeing testing efforts; leading software engineers.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Leads development efforts enterprise wide with ownership of high level reviews of applications and architecture with the rest of the development group.
Heads development of enterprise software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, design, architecture, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
Supports, develops and code reviews with software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.
Leads other developers and collaborates with designers and product owners to develop new features consistent with product roadmap.
Learns and understands complex business problems and designs innovative, cost effective, and supportable solutions
Defines programming standards and best practices for all developers. Ensures production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards are adhered to; identifying work process improvements; able to quickly implement new technology.
Collaborates with business departmental management to create roadmaps for applications, defining software development plans, including scoping, scheduling, and implementation. Helps to establish proper governance for key applications and processes
Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
Serves as a liaison with network administrators, systems analysts, vendors, customers, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems.
Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
Performs other duties as assigned or required.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE.
5+ years of professional software development experience
Excels at championing agile development and software engineering best practices.
Prior experience in cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services)
Proficient in DevOps related practices and technologies
Experience with cloud-native concepts such as containerization/serverless and microservice design
Proficiency in the following technologies/concepts
Visual Studio
C#.NET and/or Python
HTML/XML/CSS/JavaScript
REST API
JSON
DevSecOps
AWS Cloud
Test automation
Understanding of and experience with version control best practices
Prior experience in cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services) and cloud-native concepts such as containerization/Docker and microservice design required.
PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Proficiency in the following technologies/concepts
Azure DevOps and Git
Entity Framework and/or SQLAlchemy
MS SQL and/or PostgreSQL
React and TypeScript
Apple Swift Development (Xcode, SwiftUI, and UIKit)
PHP
Knockout.js
Understanding of and experience with SDLC best practices
PREFERRED EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Studies or related area.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information.
REASONING/PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
DECISION MAKING
Makes day to day decisions used to support strategic direction. Decisions often require some thought and are
somewhat structured. Decisions tend to be of moderate cost.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Able to talk or hear up to 35% of the time.
Able to sit over 70% of the time.
Able to focus with clear vision at 20 inches or less (computer screen).
April 26, 2023
