Senior .NET Engineer ( Chicago, Boston)

Company Description

PG Forsta is the leading experience measurement, data analytics, and insights provider for complex industries—a status we earned over decades of deep partnership with clients to help them understand and meet the needs of their key stakeholders. Our earliest roots are in U.S. healthcare –perhaps the most complex of all industries. Today we serve clients around the globe in every industry to help them improve the Human Experiences at the heart of their business. We serve our clients through an unparalleled offering that combines technology, data, and expertise to enable them to pinpoint and prioritize opportunities, accelerate improvement efforts and build lifetime loyalty among their customers and employees.

Like all great companies, our success is a function of our people and our culture. Our employees have world-class talent, a collaborative work ethic, and a passion for the work that have earned us trusted advisor status among the world’s most recognized brands. As a member of the team, you will help us create value for our clients, you will make us better through your contribution to the work and your voice in the process. Ours is a path of learning and continuous improvement; team efforts chart the course for corporate success.

Mission
We empower organizations to deliver the best experiences. With industry expertise and technology, we turn data into insights that drive innovation and action. 

We partner clients to gather the voice of consumers and the workforce to gain insights that address unmet needs.  Through the use of integrated data, advanced analytics and strategic advisory services, we are helping clients transform their organizations to deliver high quality services and lifetime loyalty. 

Values

• Energize the customer relationship: Our clients are our partners. We make their goals our own, working side by side to turn challenges into solutions. 
• Success starts with me: Personal ownership fuels collective success. We each play our part and empower our teammates to do the same. 
• Commit to learning: Every win is a springboard. Every hurdle is a lesson. We use each experience as an opportunity to grow. 
• Dare to innovate: We challenge the status quo with creativity and innovation as our true north. 
• Better together: We check our egos at the door. We work together, so we win together. 

Job Description

Position Description/Overview 

The primary responsibilities of this position are to design, develop, support, and maintain software applications. Other responsibilities include communicating effectively with product management to determine the software application requirements, create and effectively execute the development plan. 

Duties & Responsibilities 

Designs Software Applications: 

• Gathers requirements and design specifications, research technologies. 
• Work with Product, Technical Program Manager, and other tech leads to architect solutions 
• Designs user interface, supporting database, and application architecture. 
• Performs Systems Analysis and Design, prepares functional specifications and technical specifications for small applications or systems. 
• Ensures compliance and recommends change, if necessary, in standards, policies or processes. 
• Develops unit test plans for software applications. 

Develops and Implements Software Applications: 

• Follows and updates the design specifications as needed. 
• Produces supporting documentation. 
• Develops code according to development standards. 
• Assists other developers with development providing guidance on best practices. 
• Prepares work for inclusion in the release/deployment management process. 
• Perform code reviews and provides insight and feedback for improvement.  

Supports Software Applications: 

• Troubleshoots problems identified by users. 
• Creates installation, troubleshooting, and end user documentation. 
• Provides support and follow-up for issues. 
• Writes unit/integration tests to prove the software meets the functional needs 
• Troubleshoot distributed event driven applications. 
• Supports the full cycle of software applications including design, build, package, deploy, troubleshoot, and bug fix. 
• Follows an Agile Software Development Life Cycle that delivers incremental value to the business owner. 
• Implements software applications using Microsoft technologies (.Net, C#, SQL, Azure) 
• Full Stack developer capable of coding frontend UI’s, REST API's and backend asynchronous processes. 

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