Offer summary

Qualifications:

College degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field., Minimum of eight years of software development experience in retail supply chain and TMS., Proficiency in Golang, .NET Core, and API development., Strong problem-solving and analytical skills..

Key responsibilities:

Define and develop technical solutions for transportation systems and data integration.

Manage project plans, oversee development, testing, and deployment activities.

Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure system performance.

Provide post-installation support and monitor system performance.

Job description

Primary Responsibilities:

Participate with business partners in the definition of their requirements.
Develop detailed design to align with the business requirements: function and process specifications. Assist with technical design, unit test plan (where needed), functional program design, and technical program design (where needed).
Working with the team and business colleagues, define KPI’s, data integrity measurements and data integrity assurance process.
Develop a function point analysis estimate of work effort required to complete the business requirements. If this requires IT work outside your IT domain, work with that domain’s estimates in order that the overall estimate encompasses the complete solution.
Develop a work plan working with manager and business input and priorities. Determine staff assignments.
Project management: Create and maintain the IT work plan using department approved project management tools; supervise progress; report progress against work plan; log, track and manage the resolution of project issues; frequently review progress with IT management.
Construction: Ensure programs are well-structured, well-documented and written to standards; conduct walkthroughs, review code and/or mappings, review unit tests.
Testing: Collaborate with Quality Assurance in the preparation of test environments and execution of system tests. Develop system test plan; develop and assist with execution of user acceptance test. Coordinate user service requests.
Training: Participate in the definition and setup of training environments when needed.
Installation: Participate in installation of software and execution of conversion.
Post-installation support: Monitor system and coordinate user service requests.
Develop, measure, communicate and manage user agreed to service levels for data currency, accuracy, and availability.
Collaborate with internal customers to determine the most efficient, cost-effective approach to meet their business requirements.
Participate and/or lead technical design meetings and assist defining system architecture.
Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements and communicate progress.
Provide excellent customer service to users of Crate and Barrel system software applications.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Ability to develop a technical software solution to a business problem utilized by the various business areas and specifically Transportation systems that need data transformation, mapping and transferring.
The ability to define the solution in verbal and documented states.
Ability to create estimates for software development based on technical solutions that address business requirements.
Ability to develop a work plan, taking into account the defined efforts by all contributing IT-impacted domains.
With some maturation in role, ability to coalesce work plans into a roadmap for supply chain applications and specifically Transportation systems
Knowledge of Golang, .NET Core, etc.
API Development, high speed in-memory cache handling
Ability to build and lead integration services to Blue Yonder TMS package
Ability to integrate with shipment visibility packages like Fourkites/Project 44 etc.
Experience integrating with Truck Load, Less than Truck Load and Intermodal
Implementing industry standard best development practices.
Knowledge of third party tools/platforms like SQL, XML and Agile development tools.
Knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP and Kafka streaming data.
Ability to interface with legacy host systems like the I-Series.
Listening and comprehension skills in working alongside business disciplines and other IT disciplines.
Ability to work with business and prioritize requirements from business based on factors such as IT resources from different IT domains, overarching senior management direction, etc.

Experience Required:

College degree in an applicable field of study or comparable experience
Eight or more years of software application development experience specifically in Retail supply chain portfolio and TMS implementation
Demonstrated logical analysis and problem solving skills

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