Senior Applications Programmer

Title: Senior Applications Programmer
Position Summary 

The Senior Application Programmer is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and supporting the Company’s mission-critical web applications used by manufacturing plants to execute manufacturing activities. The Senior Application Programmer develops and maintains database designs/objects.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, document, and implement requirements gathered from the change request system for supply chain and manufacturing systems.
• Build unit and integration tests for the applications and services.
• Build highly available and easily maintainable applications for manufacturing plants.
• Develop and manage integration with other systems across the organization.
• Knowledge of build processes using Ant or equivalent tools.
• Experience with Jenkins is preferred.
• Experience with Unix scripting is preferred.
• Demonstrate strong collaboration skills, including knowledge sharing, cross-training, and supporting team members as needed. 
• Work with business users to understand and translate user requirements into forms and functions.
• Develop documentation as necessary for analysis, design, implementation, and support.
• Participate in stand-up meetings and report status to team members and management.
• Determine and communicate work estimates and status as needed.
• Participate in 24/7 department on-call support rotation.
• Work on special assignments as they arise.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong knowledge of Oracle Database and/or Oracle EBS.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment. 
• Experience with Java, J2ee, Spring Boot, and AngularJS.
• Understanding of Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture.
• Strong experience designing and developing Oracle Database objects including Tables, View, Queries, and Stored Procedures.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Stored Procedures, SQL, and PL/SQL.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work effectively in a team environment.
• Able to work quickly and effectively under pressure and to efficiently handle multiple priorities simultaneously.

Minimum Qualifications, Education & Experience 

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or a related IT field required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience developing applications using Java/J2ee technologies, or closely related occupation.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Oracle PL/SQL programming.
• Basic understanding of information security principles and best practices.
• Basic understanding of User Roles/Responsibilities within enterprise applications, including the ability to support User Access Review system/process implementation.
• Experience working with different divisions across the organization to support testing/integration efforts.
• Experience working for a mid-sized to large organization; manufacturing experience preferred.

Work Environment

• This is largely a sedentary role. 
• This job operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment.
• Typically requires travel less than 5% of the time.