Senior Java Software Engineer

Garmin Ltd.; Olathe (KS); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Garmin Ltd. in the United States is seeking a full-time Senior IT Software Engineer at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.

You will design and develop complex multi-system applications and drive collaboration to ensure successful project completion while implementing unit and system testing. Responsibilities include leading multi-system projects, providing input to solution plans, implementing integrations, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to advanced

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS or related field; 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and web-service architecture.
• Excellent collaboration and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex multi-system application development projects and collaborate with teams.
• Provide technical input to solution plans and participate in design reviews.
• Develop and support integrations between multiple systems and applications.
• Mentor less experienced engineers (Software Engineer 1 & 2).
• Design and develop web-enabled client/server applications within SDLC.

Skills

Software development

SDLC

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

System integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS or related field

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior IT Software Engineer at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing complex multi-system applications and drives collaboration with others to ensure effective project completion while working collaboratively to develop and implement unit and system testing processes.

Essential Functions

• Leads complex multi-system application development projects and drives collaboration with other teams/departments
• Provides technical input to solution development plans/concept documents and collaborates and adds value in design reviews
• Develops and supports integrations between multiple systems and/or applications
• Maintains, improves, and extends existing multi-system software and works collaboratively with Analysts/users to design software systems and develop/implement unit and system testing processes
• Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies and determines feasibility of team or functional goals/objectives
• Understands business impacts of issues as they relate to IT owned solutions, provides reliable solutions to wide range of difficult problems including evaluation of new technologies to improve existing functions, and consistently looks at opportunity in all change
• Serves as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers (Software Engineer 1 & 2)
• Demonstrates broad understanding of Garmin’s business model including Engineering, Operations, Finance, Sales & Marketing
• Develops reliable solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity
• Participates in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs

• Designs and develops web-enabled client-side and server-side applications as part of a structured Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process
• Develops and consumes web services utilizing a services-oriented architecture

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)...

  This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits