Business Applications Developer

Application Development & Technical Leadership

• Lead and perform hands-on development for internal business applications, with primary emphasis on the Microsoft Stack.
• Design, develop, enhance, test, deploy, document, and maintain reliable applications that support company operations.
• Translate business requirements into practical technical designs, project plans, and maintainable solutions.
• Provide technical direction for application projects without direct people-management responsibility.
• Conduct code reviews and promote consistent software engineering, testing, version-control, and release-management practices.
• Troubleshoot application defects, performance issues, integration failures, and production support concerns.

• Review applications, automations, scripts, and integrations created by citizen developers or developed with AI-assisted coding tools.
• Evaluate solutions for security, data access, privacy, architecture, maintainability, performance, scalability, licensing, documentation, and supportability.
• Identify technical debt, unsupported dependencies, duplicated functionality, and operational risk before applications are placed into production.
• Establish lightweight intake, review, testing, approval, deployment, ownership, and retirement standards for business-developed applications.
• Provide constructive technical guidance to non-developers while preserving appropriate IT controls and encouraging responsible innovation.
• Refactor, remediate, or redesign high-value solutions when an app does not meet company standards.
• Maintain an inventory of supported applications and clearly define accountable business and technical owners.

• Partner with IT leadership, operational departments, and subject-matter experts throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, document requirements, explain technical tradeoffs, and communicate project status and risk clearly.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical documentation, support procedures, test plans, and user-facing guidance.
• Provide knowledge transfer and mentoring to IT staff and approved citizen developers.
• Participate in application support, incident response, change management, and continuous improvement activities.