Senior Developer, PLM

Your Opportunity as the Senior Developer, PLM The J.M. Smucker Co. Commercial Operations organization enables people, process and/or technology solutions that support Concept to Commercialization capabilities and help our business perform, transform, and grow.

The Senior Developer on the PLM team realizes this purpose by serving as a cloud developer specific to PLM, Formulation and Regulatory specific applications. This role requires in-depth knowledge of development languages, learning new cloud solutions quickly, excellent communication, the curiosity to solve problems and influencing junior developers. Being a part of the PLM Center of Excellence (COE) has built in direct relationships with internal business customers.

This role is expected to build in depth knowledge of Formula/Commercial/Regulatory business concepts and end-to-end process flow.

Location:

Orrville, OH (Close proximity to Cleveland/Akron)

Work Arrangements:
Hybrid - onsite a minimum of 9 days a month primarily during core weeks as determined by the Company; maybe more as business need requires

• Deliver solutions:
  Under moderate guidance, designs, builds and supports PLM specific software applications, integrations and other related technologies that meet business requirements, factor supportability and balance cost versus benefit.
• May lead technical activities for smaller projects.
• Provide input to work plans and estimates based on experience with development activities to complete required technical activities and align with architectural principles associated with the project.
• Author technical design specifications for moderately complex solutions PLM owned applications and integrations.
• Follow documented standards for development, code promotion, and change management.
• Instructs junior resources as appropriate.
• Participate in integration, performance, and load testing efforts, and help identify and implement opportunities for automation and AI use.
• When applicable, participate in mock cutover exercises to prevent disruption and issues once live.
• Support and maintain existing solutions:
  Provide troubleshooting and fixes for complex issues, driving understanding of root cause and prioritization.
• Follow defined support paths and incident management processes to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Develop knowledge base and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for technical support plans.
• Execute activities to support ongoing maintenance and periodic releases of software.
• Drive process excellence:
  Model quality and consistency in execution, seeking and providing feedback on what is working well and what is not.
• Implement improvements to development standards, code promotion processes and/or change management.
• Promote and identify reusable code opportunities to drive efficiency and standardization across development solutions.

• 3+ years of work experience as a developer, with either a Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline or specialized training in development/cloud development.
• Experience with technical delivery in formal development roles across multiple technologies including cloud/SaaS.
• Experience with entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience delivering assignments independently within formal project frameworks (Agile, Traditional/Waterfall, Dev Ops).
• Broad knowledge of development languages, with proficient depth in Java, .NET or similar.
• Knowledge of enterprise toolsets for integration, reporting, process orchestration and/or scheduling.
• Knowledge of multiple data structures, algorithms, formats and integration methods.
• Ability to evaluate, articulate, estimate and recommend design approaches for technical solutions in addressing complex concepts and requirements.
• Ability to conduct integrated test scenarios, troubleshoot and debug developed code, and select best balanced alternatives in support of solution objectives.
• Presentation and facilitation of technical topics with broad audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage work across multiple resources (internal or contracted).
• Ability to implement modern IT concepts (Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as Code, Dev Ops) within domain.

• Experience implementing or supporting Centric C8 PLM, Dassault Biovia 3DX, Dassault Biovia Science Cloud, Oracle P4P, and/or Genesis Nutrition.
• Experience in Java, JavaScript, C#, SQL, XML/JSON, REST/ API…