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Software Engineer
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Job Description
Job purpose/summary
This role will participate in strategic planning around future development and integration of applications, web, and mobile environments. This role is involved in the systems life cycle and is responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting applications software that is delivered on-time and within budget. This role will play an active part in reporting metrics across IT and business partners.
Duties and responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be responsible for:
- Leading the discovery phase of medium to large projects to develop high-level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams
- Developing custom software changes and support for key customers in special cases
- Creating software requirements, design documentation, test plans, and other supporting documentation
- Owning the software development process end to end, including design, architecture, planning, implementation, testing, and operation of new systems
- Providing technical analysis and level of effort estimates of embedded software requirements and development
- Developing high performing, enterprise-level applications with a heavy focus on the development and the utilization of full software development lifecycle
- Providing development and testing support of new and existing products and software solutions
Competencies
The following basic application of the following KSAs are relevant:
- Web applications, front and back-end design and development, including unit and integration tests for new and existing modules
- Understanding business and technical requirements to design and build integrated solutions
- Providing software and system design as well as development and validation guidance
- Performing complex analysis, design, development, testing, and debugging of computer software
- Providing software specific input to project plans of execution in areas of scope, budget, resource needs, material needs, and schedule
- Managing third-party cloud computing platforms and web applications, including architectural design, security settings, access controls, cost-effective usage monitoring
- Building a holistic understanding of product features, customers, data infrastructure, and environment
- Performing requirements allocation and technical interface definition to translate customer requirements into software development specifications
- Quality Management Systems
- IT Management
- IT Service Management
- Process Management
- Data Development
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library
- Technology Management
- Master Data Management
- Data Management
- Business process improvement
- Time Management
- Systems Management
- Change Management
- Development Management
- System Development
- Tools and technology
- Web-based software
- Embedded services
- Microsoft SQL Server
- SQL Server Management Studio
- SQL Server Integration Services
- SQL Server Analysis Services
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server
- Oracle SQL Developer
- Windows API
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Technologies
- Core Java
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Oracle Enterprise Manager
- Web API
- Java API
- Microsoft Windows
- C/C++ Programming Language
Reporting relationship
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Direct reports (if appropriate)
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Qualifications
Education
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Certifications
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Other relevant qualifications
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Key Attributes
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Experience
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Working conditions (if required)
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Physical requirements (if appropriate)
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