Job Purpose:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’re charged with building high quality, working software that adds demonstrated business value. This is a highly technical position that requires you to both build great software and mentor your peers on design and best practices.
Primary Job Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
This job is responsible for developing or assisting in the development of functional requirements, design, development, and testing applications that support business processes and provide business value. The individual will interact with business team members, architects, developers, end users, and all other groups involved in project development, testing, and delivery.
Design/Development/Testing:
- Design, Build and deliver IT solutions that provide business value using the right blend of people, process and technology
- Partner with QA, BA, PO, and Agile team members to form high performing delivery teams
- Promote and adhere to definition of done in all solutions
- Mentor and lead high-performing developers
- Strive to ensure that best practices are always met and delivered
- Ensure as-built documentation is captured
- Stay current in new technologies and platforms; identifies emerging technologies to solve complex business problems.
- Research, suggest, and implement tools to enhance development efficiency
- Develop the automation strategy and help automate test cases
- Suggest and implement SDLC process improvements
Business/User Requirements:
- Participate in requirements/user story gathering sessions
- Interpret user requirements/user stories and design scalable and maintainable solutions to business problems.
- Communicate technical concepts in everyday language
- Understand the needs of the user community
- Demo new features/lead UAT activities
Provide Systems support:
- Learn and enhance knowledge of the various multi-platform systems, environments, utilities, and procedures
- Participate in on-call rotations
- Provide timely, concise communication of incident status to appropriate personnel
- Document incident occurrence and resolution(s) applied using designated repositories
- Consult with staff personnel as required for effective incident resolution
- Resolve development and support issues of moderate to high complexity or risk
End User Support:
- Strong communication skills.
- Translate technical concepts in everyday language.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and drive for resolution.
- Build relationships.
Basic Qualifications Required - Experience, Skills, and Knowledge:
Education:
- Bachelors in Computer Science or related field
Previous Experience:
- 8+ years of experience working in the Information Technology field.
- 5 years of working knowledge of fundamental concepts and practices of Object-Oriented analysis, design and programming
- 3 years of analyzing technical problems and delivering solutions of moderate to high risk
Technical Skills:
- Strong knowledge of Windows operating system
- Strong knowledge of web browsers (i.e. Chrome and Internet Explorer/Edge)
- Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming concepts.
- Experience in cloud-based technology (Azure)
- Experience with C# and SQL Server 2014/2016
- Experience of development in .NET Core (NET8), RESTful APIs, Entity Framework or other ORM technologies.
- Expert in Software Development Lifecycle/Agile development methodologies
- Experience in systems implementing distributed architecture, service-oriented architecture, message queues, and service bus.
- Familiarity with writing testable code and testable code best practices
- Strong foundation in back-end, multi-threaded, distributed scalable systems processing high volumes
- Experience in Microservices Architecture
- Experience in Event-Driven Architecture
- Familiarity with Application Performance Monitoring tools like Dynatrace is a Plus
- Experience in Design Patterns and Cloud Native Development is a Plus
- Understanding of enterprise design patterns and best practices is a Plus
- Microsoft certification is a plus
Other Skills:
- Stellar intrapersonal, communication, and leadership skills
- Learn new technical concepts quickly
