Dynamics Software Developer

Develop new and support existing applications used by Bright Horizons internal users as well Bright Horizons external clients and client employees. Through a variety of means, the Software Developer will translate business and technical requirements into business systems.

Bright Horizons is a leading education and care company that helps employees thrive at work and at home by partnering with employers to offer high-quality child care, elder care, and educational support. Our workplace reflects this commitment—with collaborative environments, meaningful benefits, and a culture that supports both career growth and personal well-being. Whether you’re caring for children or powering the systems and partnerships that make it all possible, at Bright Horizons, you’re the difference.

This is a hybrid role in our Newton, MA office.

What you will be doing:

Design system enhancements and business process changes geared to drive best practices that improve efficiency of staff, accuracy of results, and usefulness of data.

Critically evaluate business requirements, providing alternative solutions where applicable.

Work in conjunction with outside vendors in a shared development environment

Work with Application Support, QA, and development to support application issues, changes and modifications

Proactively identify ways in which system and process changes can improve efficiency of key users, customer service, accuracy of results, and/or completeness of data.

Act as a change agent to help ensure that the newly implemented system/process enhance the success of the project and increase the project’s chance of meeting the business needs

Provide updates and feedback to manager on progress of development.

Provide details to project manager and project team regarding updates, schedules and issues

Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized presentations that are effectively tailored to the intended audience.

Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion.

Teamwork Consistently acknowledge and appreciate each team member's contributions

Work with others from different organizations from several

Decision making authority

Ability to exercise sound judgment to meet deadlines and prioritize projects and tasks.

Able to work with minimum supervision, but, when necessary, consult with the senior management of IT and lines of business for direction and/or clarity.

Works closely with, internal users, IT Development Resources, IT and Business Line of Business Management.

The Developer must be able to perform job functions with minimal oversight from management.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. 3+ additional years of experience would be considered in lieu of the applicable degree.
3+ years of related work experience in .net web application development and/or Microsoft dynamics development using Plugins, Power automate, JavaScript, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong communication skills are essential. Individual must be comfortable working with a variety of user groups at all levels within the organization

Strong analytical skills and critical thinking to analyze problems, document needs and communicate these needs to a variety of audiences.

The individual must have a proven ability to understand business requirements in a variety of functional areas and the flexibility to adapt to new and changing information.

Ability to prioritize and manage many competing priorities and thrive in a fast paced environment.

Ability to work in a virtual collaborative environment

Experience developing in D365 using configuration, customizations, Java script, Plugins, Power Automate is required.

ASP.Net MVC framework experience is preferred.

Well versed in writing clean HTML, CSS, JavaScript. jQuery…