Technical solutions developer
Overview of Job Function: The Technical Solutions Developer is a key contributor on the MMG Technology Team supporting the development, deployment, enhancement, and management of client facing solutions. As a contributor in the design of both user interface and backend systems, the solutions developer collects and interprets requirements, organizes technical tasks, collaborates in code development, provides peer review for team members, and contributes to quality & test criteria. The Technical Solutions Developer shares the responsibility for managing the entire life cycle of the solution including configuration of development, staging, and production environments as well as coordinating releases. Approximately 70% of effort will be in coordinating, communicating, providing technical direction, and QA, and 30% as an independent contributor in coding, and environment management.
Essential Functions:
- Obtain a holistic understanding of project goals and objectives to allocate resources, set priorities, and establish timelines to intelligently deliver on client commitments
- Work closely with Chief Architect to organize and facilitate project planning, requirements gathering, and scope definition for new development projects
- Provide recommendations regarding hardware and system software planning
- Direct day-to-day task assignments, triage incoming requests, and re-prioritize as needed to ensure planned work is delivered in a timely manner
- Utilizes software tools such as issue tracking systems, build processes, and debuggers in the software development process
- Provide reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques
- Manage the sprint process, assigning tasks and backlog with mastery to ensure all tasks are progressing and up-to-date
- During the sprint cycle, maintain dependency plans across multiple concurrent development efforts
- Proactively identify risks and timeline slippage using data gathered from issue management system, team collaboration tools, and source control data
- Ensure development process compliance and help define new processes to continue to improve efficiency
- Develop and maintain scripts and small applications to enforce development processes
- Develop client-oriented solutions in a structured and organized manner
- Perform technical root cause analysis and outlines corrective action for given problems
- Enhance development standards to maximize efficiency and turnaround within the programming department
- Work with project managers, business analyst, and development team to document technical requirements and deliver results
- Participate in research and development of new development tools
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or technical discipline or 5 years’ relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor's degree
- 3 – 5 years’ experience with web, application, API, and database development trends and technologies
- 3 years' experience in technology project management
- Strong programming, development, coding, and documentation skills
- Experience defining system functionality and writing code in various languages like C#.Net, JavaScript, and Visual Basic, and SQL with C#.NET, JavaScript, SQL
MMG is an equal opportunity employer and offers a comprehensive benefits package to its employees
