Senior IT Developer

At Powell, we are a customer-focused company that respects and listens to our clients. It is this attitude that shapes our relationships and allows us to provide world-class system solutions. Understanding the customer and cultivating that connection at all levels of our organization is of primary importance.

About the Opportunity

We are currently seeking a new Senior IT Developer - Custom Applications for MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Developer to join our IT Applications team. This is a challenging and dynamic role that through hard work and devotion, to both fellow employees and the company overall, can allow one to achieve a long term successful and rewarding career at Powell.

Consider applying here, if you want to:   

• Work in an innovative and dynamic environment with a chance to make a real impact.

• Develop lasting relationships with great people in all aspects of the entire organization.

• Have the opportunity to build a long term and satisfying career.

• The essential keys for success in this role are to:

  • Maintain a great team attitude.

  • Demonstrate passion for your work.

  • Have the willingness to learn.

About the Job

Senior IT Developer - Custom Applications 

As part of the IT Applications team, this position will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting Powell MES that monitors, tracks, documents, and controls the process of manufacturing from raw materials to finished products, providing a functional layer between enterprise resource planning (Oracle EBS) and process control systems.

MES Development Definition:

• Understand the business issues, process challenges, and system data needs of their business users’ functional area.

• Guide operators, reduce mistakes, and automatically capture data with apps.

• Uncover opportunities to drive continuous improvement with real-time data and alerts.

• Achieve faster time-to-value with a next-gen, app-based implementation approach.

• Provide advice and ongoing support in solving technical issues in a timely manner for a couple functional areas.

Scope/Accountability:

• Responsible to follow the published SDLC process and ensure all the necessary documentation is in place for each development assignment.

• Responsible to follow the published development methodologies and standards relevant to the technology when developing the technical solutions.

• Responsible for delivering code that has acceptable system performance in Production environment.

• Responsible to review code and provide constructive feedback when assigned to perform a “Technical Review’ on other developer’s code.

• Decision Making, Discretion & Latitude: ability to handle multiple complex development assignments simultaneously and manage time efficiently to deliver solutions.

• Requires strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize assigned tasks.

• Requires the ability to build strong working relationships with IT Managers, Technical leads, co- Developers, Analysts and DBAs.

Job Requirements:

• Recognize as a subject matter expert in a couple development and integration technologies (i.e., C#, WPF, WCF & RESTful services, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, ExtJS, Azure DevOps etc.) and modules/business systems.

• Understand the business issues, process challenges, and system data needs of their business users’ functional area.

• Provide technical advice to the analyst during the business requirements discussion, to achieve the optimal solution for the business requirement, which may include a non-development-based solution.

• Document technical design, approach and development within a Technical Design Document.

 Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong trouble shooting and programming skills which includes ability to include C#, SQL/PL-SQL, performance tuning.   

• Conduct thorough unit testing for the technical solutions developed, while also taking into consideration business system integration and data dependencies.

• Ensure code is deployment ready and with clear instructions to avoid any variances while testing in new environment.

• Follow the published development methodologies and standards relevant to the technology when developing the technical solutions.

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