Senior IT Developer

Jacksonville, Florida

Job Duties:

• Performing software application development;
• Developing, programming and coding of Information Technology solutions;
• Documenting detailed specifications;
• Participating in unit testing and maintaining of planned and unplanned internally developed applications;
• Evaluating and performance testing of purchased products;
• Including IT Controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity, as well as availability of the application and data processed or output by the application;
• Leading efforts;
• Overseeing work results;
• Providing training;
• Serving as a technical resource for other Developers;
• Writing code for complex designs;
• Writing programs that span platforms;
• Reviewing code developed by other Developers;
• Providing input to and driving programming standards;
• Writing detailed technical specifications;
• Identifying integration points;
• Reviewing technical specifications created by other developers;
• Ensuring sufficient quality and compliance of documentation to architectural standards;
• Reporting missing elements found in requirements;
• Serving as lead liaison to vendors as assigned;
• Scoping time and resources required to complete programming projects;
• Seeking review from other IT professionals or Project Managers on estimates;
• Incorporating other Developers' scope information into own scope document (for integration points);
• Assisting in reviewing vendor products;
• Providing subject matter expertise input on compliance of products to architectural standards and impacts to IT environment;
• Performing unit testing and debugging;
• Setting test conditions based upon code specifications;
• Debugging program errors;
• Supporting transition of applications throughout the Product Development life cycle;
• Documenting what has to be migrated;
• Working on integration issues and determining the integration approach;
• Coordinating with other areas for integration architecture solutions;
• Assisting the technical team with defining configuration for installing products;
• Consulting on database setup;
• Loading database for testing;
• Reviewing vendor research and gap analyses;
• Narrowing down vendor choices and making final recommendation to technical team and client;
• Acting as a technical mentor to other team members;
• Acting as a technical lead on projects, as assigned;
• Providing production support to ensure high availability of applications to achieve operational excellence; and
• Performing data analysis and performance tuning of extract, transform and load processes.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in any Computer or Engineering field and 5 or more years of progressive work experience in the job offered, or in a developer or related role or a Master's Degree in any Computer or Engineering field and 3 or more years of work experience in the job offered, or in a developer or related role
• Experience with unit testing, release procedures, developing code, documentation protocol, and change management procedures
• Experience with versioning tools
• Experience with SDLC
• Experience with debugging
• Experience with Boomi, Ab Initio, Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Spark, and Agile Methodology

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