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JOB SUMMARY:

This individual will be responsible for day-to-day production support issue monitoring and resolution. Additionally, this individual will ensure the completion of system maintenance, upgrades, and testing as required.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead significant portions of critical and complex application work and projects
• Work on multiple projects, systems, issues as a developer providing technical direction
• Lead the planning, analysis, design, development, testing, maintenance, enhancements, integration, and/or maintenance support activities while efficiently and effectively coordinating and working with local and offshore team members as required
• Provide 24 x 7 operational monitoring and production support of the Middleware application environments
• Participating in an on-call support rotation is required
• Primary responsibility for system change management and deployment in the Middleware environments
• Ability to work independently for monitoring, installation, configuration, design, development, testing, and deployment
• Interaction with local and offshore application developer resources
• May develop conversion and migration designs and test plans
• Complies with architecture and quality processes, principals, policies, and standards
• Participates in software inspections and quality reviews
• Remain abreast of current technologies and best practices that may be applicable to the company
• Develop software specifications
• Participates in short- and long-term planning sessions with application owners to identify and implement process and application improvements within an assigned client area
• Documents discussion and agreements
• Interfaces between the application owners and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs
• Escalates or resolves conflicts, as needed
• Helps prioritize business needs and recommend options, risk, and costs vs. benefits
• Helps develop detailed project plans and schedules or assist in the development of work plan timelines
• Provides work direction and leadership to assigned programs, including scheduling, assignment of work, and review of individual project efforts
• Identifies system technical requirements
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, the form of desired results, and integration of components

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Hybrid work schedule; a combination of working remotely from home and 3-4 days a week in the office

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Five (5) years of current experience with IBM Transformation Extender v 9.0.0.x, v10.0.x (Design Studio, Partner Manager)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Five (5) years of experience with SQL / PLSQL
• Five (5) years of experience with Unix Scripting

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Understanding of EDI ANSI X12 Standards
• Experience with PGP encryption & Transmission Protocols (FTP,SSH,SFTP,FTPS)
• Proven understanding of Unix and Windows operating systems
• Familiarity with Utility industry Retail EDI interfaces
• Understanding and experience with Sarbanes Oxley controls as it applies to development including the necessary checks and validations required to ensure security, data quality, and reliability
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong focus on customer-facing interaction, customer service, and presentation
• A motivated self-starter that can work independently and in teams on tasks and projects with limited supervision
• Skill and proficiency in many technical functions and ability to integrate across disciplines
• Knowledge of the full project life cycle including defining requirements, evaluating alternatives, designing, developing, and implementing solutions
• Ability to use appropriate change control procedures for implementing software enhancements

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Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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