Specialist, Application Developer II

About the Role

Highly experienced technical leader who designs, develops, and maintains highly complex software applications with intra/interdependencies. They often lead teams and provide technical expertise to ensure projects meet business expectations while adhering to Horizon architectural standards.

• Review highly complex business requirement documents/user stories and translate into technical specifications/user stories while following Horizon’s development methodology standards.
• Work from technical specifications to develop, modify and maintain highly complex software products, including unit and system testing.
• The developed products will have dependencies on other internal and external applications and will require cross functional collaboration.
• Follows, enforces, and mentors team on Horizon’s standardized code development, deployment, security protocols/standards and SDLC practices (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Kanban).
• Acts as a leader within the team and drives Dev Ops best practices.
• Track metrics with quarterly reviews to pulse the efficiency of the development team.
• May run innovation projects such as hack-a-thons.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex cross functional problems and make recommendations for remediation.
• Lead production support as required, including but not limited to performing production support service requests and routine maintenance and support activities.
• Provide status updates to management on deliverables and projects.
• Leads design, code and infrastructure reviews to ensure high quality outcomes.
• Leads architecture discussions to ensure alignment to Horizon standards/patterns.
• Mentors junior staff.
• Assigns work and directs staff in the production of work product while promoting teamwork both internal and external to the organization.
• Leads and manages interactions with external vendors to drive solutions and monitor deliverables.
• Directly interacts with internal customers and manages stakeholder expectations.
• Formulates and manages system scope, objectives and cost for assigned projects.
• Perform production support or deployment/checkout for applications during off-hours as needed.

Education/

Experience:

• High School Diploma/GED required
• Bachelor’s degree required or 12yearsofrelevant experience in lieu of degree
• 8+yearsofrelevant work experience preferred
• Experience with PowerBI highly preferred
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP highly preferred
• Consulting skills highly preferred
• Experience with data warehouse (Snowflake, Data Bricks, Red Shift).

Additional Licensing, Certifications, Registrations:

• Professional certification in area of expertise a plus

• Requires expert knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Kanban)
• Experience with an analytics tool (Power Bi, Tableau, etc.)
• Requires advanced knowledge of object-oriented languages
• Requires advanced knowledge of markup languages
• Requires knowledge of relational database management systems
• Demonstrates understanding of core business functions
• Demonstrates ability to apply structure to a loosely defined problem
• Requires strong interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate with teams and break down complex technical information into simple language for non-technical personnel and also communicate technical information to security, architects and others.
• Requires expert proficiency in application programming and proficiency in SQL
• Requires excellent oral and written communication skills
• Requires fundamental critical thinking and problem-solving skill with attention to detail
• Requires ability to quickly adapt and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Requires excellent organizational and time management skills and ability to work independently without supervision while leading others
• Requires ability to handle multiple tasks while also supporting others.
• Requires experience with MS Office tools including Visio.
• Prefers experience with Jira/Confluence
• Requires ability to lead globally distributed team

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