Senior Specialist, Applications Development

Role Overview

Requirements and Solution Design

• Analyze business, functional, and non-functional requirements and create technical specifications.
• Clarify solution scope with business analysts, product owners, and stakeholders.
• Support effort estimation, project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, user stories, and requirements documentation.
• Translate architecture into detailed designs, workflows, implementation plans, and solution documentation.
• Evaluate design alternatives and ensure alignment with architecture standards and engineering best practices.

Development and Quality Assurance

• Develop, enhance, review, and maintain software applications and services.
• Produce high-quality code aligned with security, performance, and coding standards.
• Conduct peer reviews and develop reusable components, utilities, and automation capabilities.
• Create unit test plans, test cases, and testing documentation.
• Perform unit, integration, system, functional, and user-acceptance testing support.
• Identify and resolve defects and support test automation and continuous quality improvement.

Release and Production Support

• Support configuration management, build automation, release management, deployment planning, and implementation.
• Assist application rollouts, production validation, and go-live support.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate issue resolution with stakeholders and support teams within agreed SLAs.
• Prepare support documentation, transition materials, and service-readiness handovers.

Technical Skills

• Programming in C# and .NET Framework.
• RESTful API development.
• SSRS report coding.
• Hands-on Manhattan SCALE WMS production-support experience.
• Microsoft SQL Server querying, coding, and data-analysis capability.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident-management skills.

Engineering Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies.
• Understanding of software engineering practices, development frameworks, and engineering tools.
• Knowledge of design methodologies, architecture principles, design patterns, and scalable system design.
• Experience with requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and traceability.
• Knowledge of source control, CI/CD, configuration management, release processes, and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of build tools, unit testing, integration testing, and test automation.

Behavioral Competencies

• Strong problem-solving, root-cause analysis, planning, and organization skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage priorities, identify risks and dependencies, and coordinate delivery.
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, customer focus, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.