Application System Engineer

Interplace, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer responsible for system analysis, design, development, and testing. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree and 3-5 years of experience in application development within a Microsoft environment. Duties include analyzing requirements, developing software, and supporting operational tasks. This position emphasizes strong communication skills and knowledge of IT technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
• 3 - 5 years application development experience in a Microsoft environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements and develop design documentation.
• Responsible for coding, testing, and defect management.
• Monitor daily system operational tasks and support users.

Job description

Employment Requirements: Japanese skill is a plus, not required.

The Role: The Sr. Software Engineer is responsible for system analysis, design, development, and testing for their assigned technical product(s) or application(s) under Project Manager. The project is replacing legacy DB and custom applications to Microsoft base platform. This role also includes analysis of existing legacy systems.

Responsibilities

• Analysis and Design: Analyze business requirements, perform technical analysis of new and existing legacy systems, develop design documentation and other relevant collateral, make strategy of transition within the Project team, estimate work effort, support, guide, and lead other associates in the understanding of legacy systems.
• Development and Testing: Coding and configuration, code reviews and peer consultations, unit testing and unit test development, system, integration and user acceptance test planning, execution and testing support, defect management and resolution.
• Operations and Support: Monitoring and recording daily system operational tasks, steering providers in the execution of tier 1 support tasks, resolving escalated support topics, leveraging and enhancing operations and development tools, planning and executing upgrades and replacements to ensure that hardware and software components remain supported, executing SOX processes to ensure ongoing stable operations and alignment with SLAs.
• Business Analysis: Building a strong understanding of the assigned business processes, functions, roles, and rules, owning the functional solution - the big picture story - of the initiative being delivered, collaborating with the Business to elicit requirements, define acceptance criteria, and maintain a prioritized product backlog, creating user stories to the level of granularity required by the team, clarifying inconsistencies and resolving issues to bridge the gap between user expectations and the delivered product, testing deliverables against a user story's acceptance criteria to validate that the delivered product meets the business goals.
• Coordination and Administration: Coordinating day to day activities with team members, leading and mentoring other team members as appropriate, coordinating release planning and off-cycle efforts, resolving or escalating risks and issues, executing resource planning and time tracking processes.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's Degree
• IT experience
• 3 - 5 years application development in a Microsoft environment
• Strong knowledge of common concepts, architectures, and processes in software development.
• Well-versed in dealing with common IT technologies (e.g. .Net, Webpage development, databases)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with users and vendors at all levels.
• Knowledge and hands-on of application developments on Microsoft Office 365 (e.g. SharePoint, PowerAutomate, or PowerBI) are preferred