Software Developer (Java) (W2)

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business requirements.
• Research and exploration of user requirements, costs, and benefits in support of documentation required for the demand management process.
• Responsible for analyzing the business needs to identify new processes and process improvements that will meet those needs.
• Documents current business processes and models to define requirements and/or gaps.
• Analyze detailed system factors including input/output requirements, information and paper flow, hardware, and software needs.
• Analyze “soft" system factors including roles, responsibilities, policy, culture, etc.
• Evaluate the impact of potential software and process changes on the organization.
• Develop and facilitate groups as necessary in pursuit of eliciting and defining requirements.
• Assist in the creation of the business case documentation.
• Understanding of architectural consistency and usability standards.
• Defines and develops user test cases and validates test results during testing.
• Executes unit and functional test cases.
• May conduct system demonstrations and training sessions, as well as participate in design/review of training content.
• Plays a third level support role by helping to troubleshoot and resolve issues with production systems.
• Participates in associate meetings and communicates any concerns to management.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience leading data migration requirements from legacy systems into a new ERP (Sage X3) environment
• Strong hands-on expertise in requirements elicitation, documentation, and management, with emphasis on data mapping, transformation rules, and validation
• Deep understanding of data structures, data quality, and migration best practices, with the ability to identify gaps and risks early
• Self-driven and accountable professional with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to drive outcomes with minimal oversight
• Working knowledge of Confluence and JIRA.
• Experience in any of the following business areas is desired: Sales operations, order entry, accounting, finance, procurement, warehouse operations, order management, and order fulfillment.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ business analysis or systems analysis experience is preferred.
• Bonus: Sage X3 experience (ERP).

Associate is expected to operate at a proficient level across the following areas of technical knowledge and skill

• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Detail oriented, proactive, creative, and efficient
• Intermediate level abilities in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
• Familiarity with application integration methods to include understanding of data mapping process.
• Ability to effectively work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to work on simultaneous and complex projects, with domain expertise in at least one business area.
• Expertise in ERP solution selection and implementation is a plus
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written format
• Ability to work with all levels of associates
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic environment
• Ability to learn new systems and tools
• Knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Active listener
• Effective in a variety of formal/informal presentation settings: one-on-one, small, and large groups.

Job Responsibilities

• Represent the Data Operations Hub team in various forums, advising on Data Solutions.
• Lead the design and maintenance of scalable data solutions, including data lakes and warehouses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data product solutions supports business needs and enables data-driven decision-making.
• Evaluate and select data technologies, driving the adoption of emerging technologies.
• Develop architectural models using sparkx, or other data modeling tool available and other artifacts to support data initiatives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in specific areas.
• Experience with modern data processing technologies such as Python, Java, Airflow, etc. using data mesh & data lake.
• Contribute to the data engineering community and advocate for agency data practices.
• Engage in hands-on coding and design to implement production solutions.
• Optimize system performance by resolving inefficiencies.
• Design reusable data frameworks using new technologies.

Required skills (rank in order of importance)

• 4+ years’ experience as a Data Engineer or similar role leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• 4+ years’ experience hands-on experience in system design, application development, and operational stability
• 4+ years’ experience expertise in architecture disciplines and programming languages
• 4+ years’ experience deep knowledge of data architecture, modeling, integration, cloud data services, data domain driven design, best practices, and industry trends in data engineering
• 4+ years’ experience practical experience with AWS/Azure services, and data engineering disciplines
• 4+ years’ experience advanced experience in one or more data engineering disciplines, e.g, ETL/ELT, event processing
• 4+ years’ proficiency experience in SQL, data warehousing solutions and cloud native relational databases, e.g. Snowflake, Athena, Postgres

Preferred skills (rank in order of importance)

• 4+ years’ experience business architecture knowledge and experience with architecture assessment frameworks

Additional Skills & Duties

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to evaluate and recommend technologies for future state architecture

Required education/certifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.