Lead Software Developer

About Pierce, an Oshkosh company

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

**This is an in-person position in Appleton, WI**
The Lead Software Developer ensures the function and efficiency of core organizational applications meet technical user requirements. Develop, maintain, and enhance business critical applications through the utilization of various technologies. Support bug fixes and prod environments to reduce down time and ensure system efficiency standards.

 YOUR IMPACT:

• Communicate with customer and information technology colleagues in a timely manner to deliver technical solutions to business requirements
• Ability to execute development, configuration, maintain, and test software based on designs set by senior level developers.
• Advise business analysts, business stakeholders and cross functional technology teams on best practices to execute business requirements.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency in coding languages to streamline core feature developments, also investigate new technologies and give suggestions to teams
• Advanced Utilization of data structures, algorithms, and coding languages, to develop and troubleshoot applications
• Ensure to develop documentation throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and utilize Azure DevOps or equivalent tools through build, deploy, and iteration management
• Advanced knowledge working agile and scrum methodology environment to ensure SDLC timelines and stories are completed.
• Ability to enhance and build out normalized data structures in DB's to support application needs
• Develop and Contribute to internal Nugget Libraries and API's to build a better foundation for development
• Able to Coach and mentor team members on best practices, solution design execution, and de-bugging.
• Develop clean code, documentation, and follow best practices to ensure the support, upgrades, and maintenance of Systems.
• Track and manage code changes through source control software and commit history in a multi-developer environment.
• Lead departmental cross-team projects
• Utilize ITIL methodology and ticketing software, to track and manage incidents, changes, problems, tasks, and demand.
• Serve as an SME through incident management and support escalations and knowledge management use cases
• Experience analyzing designs with various architectures (REST, Object Oriented, Cloud, Microservices, and others) for continuous improvement
• Serve as partner to end users in the best solution design to execute technical requirements
• Coach and mentor team members on best practices, solution design execution, and de-bugging.
• Provide analysis and design support in evaluation and developing systems to meet user requirements
• Advanced experience SDLC ensuring user design requirements are met on timely and effective standard
• Lead special projects and workstreams within the ecosystem to drive business process optimization and ROI
• Consult with business partners on best practices integrating across systems through REST, SOAP, JSON, and APIs standards
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and business leads to educate, present, and showcase design impacts and innovation.
• Advanced experience SDLC ensuring user design requirements are met on timely and effective standard
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Five (5) or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• .NET Core, REST/API, Entity Framework

STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field
• JSON, MVC, IIS Management, Event Driven Architecture/RabbitMQ, Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, ELK/Serilog, xUnit/MSTestASP.Net, JavaScipt, SQL, XML, messaging protocols, programming skills and conceptual understanding of CQS/CQRS.
• Problem solving, curiosity, ability to communicate effectively in a team environment

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