Generic Position Summary

As a member of the professional staff, contributes a high level of specialized knowledge and skill in a discipline (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Information Resources, Operations Planning & Support, Sales & Marketing) area to support department and/or function objectives. Generally, works with considerable independence, developing operating plans and related operational processes for own department and monitoring the flow of work between own department and others in alignment with broader business objectives, selecting and developing effective managers and work teams, and managing own organization through reliable systems and processes.

Specific Job Summary

The Sr Software Engineer supports MVW business lines globally. Develops software for MVW applications; providing end-to-end technical services to facilitate the effective delivery of optimal solutions that meets MVW business objectives. Responsible for developing software based on requirements, user stories, and technical specifications that aligns with acceptance criteria, software development best practices, and DevOps capabilities. Member of a cross functional team agile team responsible for on-time delivery of optimal solutions. Responsible for following the prescribed development processes, frameworks, methodologies, and tools. Mentor junior developers and share knowledge with team members to ensure a well-trained and qualified staff.

Generic Expected Contributions

▪ Performs more complex quantitative and qualitative analysis for business processes and/or projects. Often manages small projects, business processes or parts of larger ones.

▪ Responds to, solves and makes decisions on more complex/non-routine business requests with limited to moderate risk.

▪ Responsible for own work and contributing to team, department and/or business results. May direct work of non-management staff.

▪ Assists more senior associates in achieving business results by:

− identifying opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of business processes. − providing training and technical guidance to less senior staff, where appropriate, and serving as point-of-contact for problem resolution.

− participating in setting department operating plans.

− recognizing and celebrating team successes.

− achieving results against budget within scope of responsibility.

▪ Demonstrates an awareness of personal strengths and areas for improvement and acts independently to improve and increase skills and knowledge.

▪ Performs other duties as appropriate.

Specific Expected Contributions

▪ Develop and implement software designs to solve business problems and produce high quality architecture artifacts with attention to detail

▪ Mentor junior developers on design patterns, development best practices and DevOps trade-offs

▪ Participate in the entire development lifecycle, to include system design architecture, development, maintenance, and support in an agile development environment

▪ Implement and contribute to engineering practices and processes

▪ Participate during development and planning discussions

▪ Understand, create, and maintain complex data structures that drive dynamic applications

▪ Responsible for technical software development, troubleshooting and performance tuning

▪ Provides input/expertise for project estimation, work plan development and staffing

▪ Partners with third-party vendor on-shore and off-shore teams to ensure their work products comply with MVW technical standards

▪ Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers and junior developers

▪ Continuously keeps up-to-date with new technology and IT processes

▪ Contributes to MVW Best Practices Library by creating or enhancing standards ▪ Contributes to enhancing DevOps capabilities Generic Candidate Profile

Generic Candidate Profile

Successful candidates should possess knowledge and experience and demonstrate strong leadership and relationship skills as follows: Generally, a professional position with specific knowledge and experience in a discipline (e.g., Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology) as well as associate management experience. College degree and/or relevant experience typically required.

Specific Candidate Profile Education

▪ BS/BA or technical certification or equivalent work experience

Experience

▪ 8 + years’ work experience in similar position or having equivalent kind of skills experience.

Skills/Attributes Core Competencies:

▪ Demonstrated expertise with SQL and Microsoft Access development is a must

▪ Experience developing and/or supporting applications used by MVW Owner Services is a plus

▪ Competencies in various technologies including Solid understanding of Service Oriented Architecture including experience with developing Web Services (REST & SOAP) on an ESB platform

▪ Solid understanding and experience of waterfall and agile tools and methodologies

▪ Demonstrated experience using development tools (VS Code, WebStorm, IntelliJ, DataGrip)

▪ Strong working knowledge of front-end JavaScript and modern libraries, ideally React.js is a plus

▪ Understanding web security principles and standards for web applications and Rest/SOAP APIs such as OAuth2, CAS, Spring Security, etc. is a plus

▪ Experience in designing, developing and integrating with server-side enterprise applications using Spring, Spring Boot, Java EE/SE, Hibernate, JMS, XML, Gradle, Maven, AWS, GIT, Jenkins, and similar technologies is a plus

▪ Experience using HTML5, CSS3 and frameworks like Bootstrap, CSS Pre/Post processors, and build tools (Webpack, Gulp), and Web application frameworks, such as Grails & Spring Web is a plus

▪ Experience in the following is a plus: Microservices, Apache, NGINX, Docker, JBoss, Tomcat

▪ Strong emphasis on delivering simple, readable, traceable, maintainable and performant code using, application of patterns and data structures as appropriate to the application

▪ Solid understanding of transaction management (both local and XA), thread safety and thread management, database design and query optimization

▪ Strong understanding of core networking concepts (DNS, IP, SSL/HTTPS, etc.) is a plus.

▪ Understanding of Caching and implementing technologies, like Terracotta Ehcache is a plus.

▪ Experience in generating project estimates.

▪ Demonstrated experience integrating systems in multi-user, multi-platform environments

▪ Ability to analyze, absorb, advocate, and apply rapidly changing technologies and apply them as part of integrated solutions to business requirements.

▪ Broad knowledge of team collaboration tools (BitBucket, Bamboo, Jira, and Confluence)

▪ Experience operating in a DevOps Model

▪ Ability to establish and maintain a high level of peer trust and confidence.

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