Business Application Developer Adv.

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Detroit, MI

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Full-time

Competitive Total Compensation Package

Overview: <ul><li>Provide support to all phases of the application development process to include business analysis, application, architecture, design, development, integration and delivery for those business applications that support the administrative or operational functions of the company or the business applications needed to serve customers effectively. Provide business application maintenance and support. </li><li>Work closely with clients, business analysts and team members on moderately complex to complex programming projects. Define business processes and gather project requirements. Write software code, test, debug, and document and maintain computer applications. Identify coding errors through informal and formal testing methods. Ensure application integrity by applying SDLC concepts</li></ul>
Responsibilities: <ul><li>Provide ongoing maintenance of applications.</li><li>Document functions and changes to new or modified modules and test activities/results.</li><li>Identify technical requirements, as needed. Create technical design specifications and assist in sizing technical requirements, as needed.</li><li>Participate in project planning processes, as needed.</li><li>Support identification of sources of data feeds and interfaces, as needed.</li><li>Design new reports and interfaces using advance queries and software solutions. Maintain ex isting reports and process automation tools.</li><li>Adhere to standards and procedures. Review modules for quality assurance. </li><li>Evaluate existing applications and platforms and provides recommendations for improving application performance by conducting gap analysis, identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications. </li><li>Evaluate new application packages and tools and perform research on best practices and provi de recommendations for solutions, as needed.</li><li>Provide technical coaching and mentoring to less-experienced team members.</li><li>Other duties may be assigned. </li></ul>
Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor's degree in related field preferred. </li><li>Three (3) years of advanced programming techniques and application design required. </li><li>Experience in systems design and have a solid understanding of development, database development, testing, and integration methodologies required. </li><li>Project management experience preferred. </li><li>Analytical and systems thinking. </li><li>Accuracy and attention to detail. </li><li>Written and verbal communication skills. </li><li>Ability to work independently, or within a team environment. </li><li>Other related skills and/or abilities may be required to perform this job. Additional department job specific duties: This position, under the Operational Performance Management (OPM) department, is primarily responsible for: </li><li>Developing automation solutions via C# and ASP.Net. </li><li>Business analysis, application architecture, design, development, integration and delivery. </li><li>Application maintenance and support. </li><li>Conducts analysis of organizational needs and goals for the development and implementation of application systems. With general guidance and coaching, performs technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents, and maintains those applications. Ensures SDLC methodology is followed, conducts inspections and post implementation reviews. Competent to work at a high technical level for the entire application development life-cycle. Partners with business personnel to conduct analysis of organizational needs. Acts as a primary liaison with the user area for development and modifications to existing applications. Significant creativity is required. Excellent communication and customer service-oriented skills are required. This position has frequent customer interaction and the successful candidate must have proven abilities to extract and analyze requirements from customers at all levels of the organization. With general guidance and coaching, performs technical design and development of automation solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms. Other job requirements include testing, debugging, documentation, end-user training, and maintenance of those solutions. 3270 TSOB or Nasco transactions knowledge is a plus. Department Highly preferred skills: </li><li>C# application development experience. </li><li>Experience with developing end-user applications and interfaces. </li><li>Experience in documenting user requirements, developing conceptual and detail design. Department Preferences </li><li>Microsoft Access database development and support of tables, forms, queries, and modules. </li><li>Ability to write and interpret VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code. </li><li>JAVA Web development experience. </li><li>Pega Robotics RDA development experience. </li><li>Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 database development and support. </li><li>Background with developing and supporting Microsoft SQL Server Integrated Services (SSIS)</li></ul>