Sr. Programmer Analyst - Hybrid

Adam Kay Group; Kalamazoo (MI); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Adam Kay Group seeks a Programmer Analyst in Kalamazoo, MI. This role involves defining, developing, and maintaining software applications to meet business requirements. Responsibilities include facilitating meetings, crafting documentation, and monitoring application performance.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in CIS or a related field and 3-5 years of experience. Skills in SQL and back-end development are essential, with an emphasis on mentorship of junior staff.

This is a hybrid position, requiring on-site work three days a week and remote work on two days.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience with back-end development and web services.
• Capability to lead and mentor junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate meetings with business users to assess needs.
• Craft and present requirements documentation.
• Architect solutions based on business requirements.
• Maintain application code and repository.

Skills

SQL queries construction

Data Modeling

Back-end development (ASP.NET Core, MVC, C#)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems or related field

Tools

Microsoft Power Apps

DocuSign API

Job description

My Kalamazoo, MI client is in need of a Programmer Analyst to join their team. The Programmer Analyst role is to define, develop, test, analyze, and maintain new software applications in support of the achievement of business requirements. This includes architecting, writing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications. The Programmer Analyst III will also research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the production life cycle. This individual will also provide mentoring, support, and guidance to the other technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate meetings with business users from across the organization to assess their needs and recommend ways to address them.
• Craft requirements documentation, present it to the business users, and refine it with their feedback.
• Architect solutions based on business requirements.
• Implement, test, and maintain full-stack web applications, web service APIs, custom integrations, and other custom development projects.
• Oversee deployments and application updates with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Monitor performance metrics of our custom applications.
• Design and generate ad-hoc reports from our internal systems and data sources to address new business questions.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain self-service reports for the business. These could be for any business unit across the organization.
• Curate and follow software best practices for reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Maintain application code, database scripts, reports, packages, and other artifacts in source control.
• Maintain and follow compliance and utilize appropriate, industry-standard measures and reporting guidelines to insure relevant and consistent data is produced.
• Report on progress and roadblocks to the Application Development team at the morning SCRUMs.
• Keep business users apprised of progress on their respective projects and tasks.

Qualifications

Skills for this position should include:

• Constructing queries with SQL
• Data Modeling
• Building database objects such as views, stored procedures, and functions
• Performing testing, refactoring and improving existing code
• Back-end development experience: ASP.NET Core, MVC, C#, web service development and use (REST/JSON and SOAP/XML), working with vendor SDKs

Development experience with any of these is a plus:

• Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, or SharePoint
• DocuSign and the DocuSign API

• Serve as a mentor (formally or informally) to junior development staff.
• Lead internal training as needed.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems (CIS) or related field preferred.
• 3 – 5 years-experience in a similar role.

Additional Information

• This is a Hybrid position - 3 days per week on site and 2 days remote.
• No C2C or sponsorship is available for this position. Must be authorized to work in the US without expiration.

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