IT Developer Annabelle Picker

Job description

Summary:

As part of the MaaS team, the IT Developer designs, develops and implements new or existing complex and scalable applications, tools to fulfill business partners’ objectives. His role is to ensure the testing and maintenance of the applications, actively participate in the requirements, architecture and design specifications. He also determines relevance and potential value of new technologies to support business operations and strategy to create best practices and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities:

The main and routine tasks of the IT Developer are to: 

·  Proactively seeks opportunities to broaden and deepen knowledge base and proficiencies regarding processes;
·  Shares acquired skills with team members through formal and informal channels;
·  Proposes ideas of improvement of the applications, procedures and technologies used;
·  Ensures reporting to his/her manager and communicates and escalades warnings;
·  Maintains excellent knowledge on the domain activity;
·  Design, code and test technical solutions while seeking optimal performance and structuring that answer best clients’ needs;
·  Support the good working of developed applications in all environments through interaction with Ops teams and/or set up of continuous integration and deployment tools;
·  Works with Project Managers and/or Development Team Leaders to define priorities, build project plans and estimations;
·  Adheres to the standards and best practices in department and company;
·  Understands technical and functional design requirements, proposes alternative options to improve applications or reduce effort or reduce technical debt;
·  Participates in physical and logical database design;
·  Creates prototypes for client engagements;
·  Identifies and troubleshoots system deficiencies and recommends solutions;
·  Increases applications operating efficiency on a regular basis;
·  Establishes responsible deadlines and personal work plans and manages time effectively;
·  Execute assigned tasks and communicate status to project manager showing progress against milestones, status, issues, risks and dependencies;
·  Creates technical documentation, is quality driven in term of deliverables;
·  After a ticket is assigned to him/her, works with Support Coordinator to estimate the time necessary to implement corrections and implements the necessary corrections and changes that will solve the problems;
·  Effectively communicates relevant project/team related  information to superiors;
·  Trains more junior resources and help team meet its development plans;
·  Informs team members about the decisions that can have an impact upon their projects;
·  Actively contributes to corporate knowledge base;
·  Suggests system improvements and offers alternative solutions to the different problems that may appear;
·  Carry out all other related tasks.

Training:

·  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or any other related field.

Relevant Experience:

·  At least 1 year’s experience as a Developer within a professional IT environment.

Knowledge:

·  Fluent in English (French is an asset);
·  Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (adheres to a solid and reusable object oriented design);
·  .NET Developer: Master ASP.NET MVC/WebForms (C#)/SQL Server 
·  SharePoint Developer: strong knowledge of SharePoint Server development models (farm solution, apps, APIs);
·  PHP/MySql: Master PHP/MySQL Server;
·  Web applications' security principles;
·  knowledge of client server and internet systems architectures;
·  Git or TFS source control usage;
·  Web services & APIs design and implementation (REST, SOAP).

Skills

·  Strong skills on client-side technologies: HTML, JavaScript and CSS;
·  Always thinks and acts with clients’, end users satisfaction in mind;
·  Strong analytical skills;
·  Excellent communication and organization skills;
·  Responsible and accountable for his/her actions;
·  Problem solving and questioning skills;
·  Persevering, autonomous, takes initiative;
·  Capacity to multitask and perform on strict deadlines;
·  Quality, services and result oriented;
·  Easily adaptable to changes and proposals;
·  Good team player, able to accept constructive criticism and give feedback, facilitates effective team interaction;
·  Creative & innovative.