The Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Responsibilities:
6-8 years of extensive experience in software development, with significant experience in hand-on development on complex, large-scale enterprise platforms
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Technologies
Backend Technologies
- Java 8, Spring MVC / Spring Boot / Spring Framework / Spring Security/ Spring Batch.
- Design and implementation of RESTful services, Micro Service Designs.
- Build Tools like Maven or Gradle.
- Using Test Framework - Unit Test (Junit/Mockito) / Mutation.
- Back-end development with Java/SpringBoot.
- Strong experience in data modeling and database design, Relational databases like Oracle.
- Experience using observability tools such as logging and metrics for debugging (Elastic/Kibana).
- Experience working in setting up cloud infrastructure.
- Experience in working & configuring wide range of AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Elastic Load Balancers, EC2, MSK, RDS – Oracle preferred.
- Good experience in Cloud technology like AWS (OpenShift etc.).
Frontend
- Deep experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, particularly React.js, including its ecosystem (Redux, Flux).
- Strong command of frontend tooling: Webpack, Babel, npm/yarn.
- Using Test Framework - Component Test (Karate Wiremock / React Test Library).
- Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
- Experience with responsive design principles and frameworks, and ADA compliance
- Thorough understanding of end-to-end deployment strategies for UI applications.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- GitLab/Bit Bucket.
- Understanding of cloud, working with DevOps, Jenkins pipeline.
- Experience in working Agile/Scrum methodology.
- Continuous integration and DevOps using GitLab.
- Hands-on experience with Docker/K8s/OpenShift.
- Certification in relevant technologies or platforms.
Education:
Master’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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Job Family Group: Technology------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:Applications Development------------------------------------------------------
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Skills Required
- 6-8 years of extensive software development experience
- Master's degree, University degree, or equivalent experience
- Hands-on experience with Java 8
- Experience with Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Batch
- Design and implementation of RESTful services and microservice architectures
- Build tools: Maven or Gradle
- Unit testing and test frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, mutation testing
- Backend development experience with Java/SpringBoot
- Strong experience in data modeling and relational database design (Oracle)
- Experience with observability tools such as Elastic/Kibana for logging and metrics
- Experience setting up cloud infrastructure and working with AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, ELB, EC2, MSK, RDS)
- Deep experience with React.js and its ecosystem (Redux, Flux)
- Expert proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Frontend tooling: Webpack, Babel, npm/yarn
- Component and integration testing frameworks (Karate, Wiremock, React Testing Library)
- Experience with responsive design principles and ADA accessibility compliance
- Experience with GitLab or Bitbucket and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Adherence to secure coding practices
- RDS - Oracle (preferred)
- Certifications in relevant technologies or platforms
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