Essential Functions

• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing software systems and applications.
• Serve as technical expert on development projects.
• Drives full development life cycle including requirements analysis and design.
• Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements.
• Support, maintain, and document software functionality.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation.
• Analyze code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed.
• Drive software design meetings and analyze user needs to determine technical requirements.
• Consult with end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs.
• Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained.

Desired Skills

Automation

• Ability to use Unix/Linux command line programs and create/edit scripts.
• Able to analyze results of automated deployment scripts and makes modifications.

Design

• Able to prepare detail design documents from requirements.
• Familiar with Reporting tools such as Crystal Reports, Jasper Reports, BIRT, etc.
• General understanding of software environments and network topologies.
• Able to demonstrate OOA/OOD skills.
• Demonstrable understanding of distributed, component based architecture
• Working knowledge of networking and/or telecommunications protocols
• A solid understanding of event driven / asynchronous programming and multi-threading
• Demonstrable technical design skills (UML experience a plus)
• Familiar with TDD/BDD.
• Familiar with SOA framework, web services, etc.

Coding

• Common Developer Skills
• Competent (5+ years) Java or C# or C++ or Objective-C language programming skills.
• Competent with SQL or PL/SQL and relational database concepts.
• Experience with source code control systems.
• Experience with secure programming techniques is highly desirable
• Able to perform code reviews to ensure the code meets the acceptance criteria.

Testing

• Able to maintain test scripts as needed.
• Prepares test strategy, test plan, test cases, and test summary documents.
• Experience with automated functional software testing frameworks, such as Cucumber, Selenium, etc.
• Performs unit, functional, load, user interface, performance, regression and system integration testing on new code or modified code prior to production releases.
• Produce and report project test metrics.
• Possess advanced knowledge of QA/QC techniques; certifications preferred
• Assists new staff on testing techniques and test methodologies

Support

• Responsible for responding to situations in a timely manner, and meeting predetermined deadlines
• Ability to support/maintain existing products and add new features as requested by customers.
• Central point of contact for support of UAT/production applications as needed
• Keen troubleshooting skills across tiers/domains
• Ability to work on multiple projects

Collaboration

• Agile/Lean methodologies experience
• Solid understanding of an iterative software development process
• Able to guide the team to produce estimates for all project activities and tasks.
• Responsible for eliciting user and functional requirements and ensuring they consistent and complete
• Mentor and monitor Software Engineers in the technical aspects of their assignments.

Experience

• Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and/or 5 or more years of related industry experience.

Preferred Skills

• Java, SpringBoot Framework
• Microservices
• Rest APIs
• AWS
• PKS