Senior Application Development Lead

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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role 

The Senior Application Development Lead role will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, developing, & documenting specifications & solutions for projects with focus on the Microsoft D365 ERP system. This position will also directly work with Global Accounting & Finance to respond to team inquiries on related financial systems timely, troubleshoot financial system issues and analyze current business and financial practices. The Sr. Application Developer will act as a liaison between finance business groups and IT teams and be able to explain technical solutions to senior leadership in concise and meaningful ways. This position requires a highly motivated individual with strong analytical skills, intellectual curiosity, and excellent communication skills. The ability to work well with other developers and stakeholders in a dynamic environment, think creatively, work independently, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously is required.

Your day-to-day 

• Developing and analyzing project functional requirements, test plans, and evaluating test results to determine compliance with established business processes.
• Analyze requirements, develop technical design specifications, develop packages, APIs, extensions, workflows, integrations and custom reports.
• Write SQL queries/scripts to convert data into formats supported on the D365 platform.
• Modify existing codes to optimize / maintain D365 applications.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including discovery, analysis, requirements definition, solution design, configuration, code development, testing, deployment and support.
• Share and develop excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with strong testing, debugging and analytical skills
• Provide technical assistance by responding to inquiries from end-users and/or technical staff regarding application, system, & reporting issues.
• Must be able to identify, troubleshoot, solve, and manage systems problems under time constraints with minimal supervision.
• Customer focus and confident in making critical decisions independently in a fast paced and demanding environment
• Experience in troubleshooting and driving technical investigations to determine root causes of issues
• Solid communication and cross-discipline collaboration skills, working with other IT professionals, business stakeholders and senior level management
• Experience in creating requirement specifications based on Architecture/Design /Detailing of Processes
• Responsible to work with 3rd party vendors to understand and resolve open system issues, develop and align on architectural design decisions and set delivery expectations
• Outlining and administering training on systems when needed and create training documentation for new projects.
• Administer and support business applications and integrations: Concur, Blackline, Zuora RevPro, Atlas reporting, Power BI, Fastpath, Avalara, SKG Treasury and other financial systems.

What you bring to the team 

• BA/BS degree in Finance, Computer Science, Technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Dynamics 365 F&O development experience required.
• Experience working with financial related applications and working with vendors and internal customers to resolve and respond to financial system issues and inquiries.
• Development skills in X++ and customization patterns using extensions and event handlers preferred
• Experience with AX/D365 report development and Power BI including QA ability.  Experience with Power Apps and Power Automate is a plus
• Data migration experience using data entities with Data management framework (previously known as DIXF).
• Experience with integration of Dynamics 365 F&O