Senior Software Engineer

What you'll do...

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Job Location: 702 SW 8th St, Bentonville, AR 72712

Duties: Leads assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples; identifying short- and long-term solutions and timeline; reviewing and providing feedback for proposed solutions; and performing design and code reviews of changes. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; formulating an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; performs root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues; and completing online documentation. Provides support to the business by responding to user's questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); identifying short- and long-term solutions; facilitating resolutions; and leading cross-functional partnership. Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business and user experience teams; and obtaining cross-function approvals. Leads and participates in medium to large scale projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs; interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan; and providing leadership to the project team. Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of experience in software engineering or related experience; OR Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Working on relational databases like Big Query, DB2 and Teradata; Developing and maintaining robust SOAP CICS webservices to be consumed by eCommerce applications and implement webservices using IBM Data power devices; Architect designing and implementing scalable & highly performing Mainframe batch applications using JCL, COBOL and Easytrieve handling millions of records; Efficiently integrating with third party vendors to share files based on HIPAA compliance and medical standards through SFTP, AS2 and EDI secure transmission protocols; Developing, maintaining, and managing advanced reporting, analytics, dashboards using mobius and Infopac reports; Mainframe utilities like Fileaid, Librarian, SPUFI, Sort utilities SYNCSORT, DFSORT, Abendaid and Expeditor; Reducing MIPS consumption by implementing efficient solutions using SORT, COBOL and Job Control Language to process huge amount of data to save annual Mainframe cost; Performance tuning using DB2 Explain, DB2 SQL Performance Analyzer to improve query response times & application operations by tuning the JCL, COBOL programs and SQL Queries for better application performance; Developing DB2 Stored procedures and CICS webservices used by the front-e