Job description
The candidate will be responsible for full stack, hands-on development of applications and services and will be expected to participate in system design and provide thought leadership in the full lifecycle from concept to production. This role will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on a particular system or application and will be required to gain complete understanding of business requirements and the needs of the client while ensuring development practices are in line with company best practices and policies.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Hands on development of applications and services.
- Lead moderate to complex programming tasks and provide code reviews of various development tasks.
- Participate in system design and specifications, program logic and flowcharting, development, testing, debugging, documentation, and support.
- Provide analysis of problems and recommends solutions.
- Work with DevOps to make sure there are tools in place for monitoring the system, and log management to effectively handle incidents.
- Partner with business stakeholders and serve as a SME to lead and complete each data production cycles.
Required Skills:
- Strong communication skills with a track record of working with and collaborating with teams.
- Must possess the ability to handle multiple on-going assignments and be able to work independently in addition to contributing as part of a highly collaborative team.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to break down and communicate complex issues, ideas, and solutions.
- Be able to create and articulate design/implementation options and tradeoff to peers, tech leads, and management.
- Ability to clearly document application designs and the related management and support procedures.
- Ability to understand all phases of SDLC.
- Ability to quickly ramp-up on new/emerging technologies as required.
Technology & Technical Skills:
- .NET expertise
- Enterprise relational database management (SQL Server)
- Web services and APIs as in RESTful and SOAP
- Agile practices
- Service-oriented application development
- Azure DevOps technologies
- Python, R
- Web technologies/JavaScript
Preferred Attributes:
- Economic Data experience,
- Knowledge of economic data systems
- Solid understanding of information security best practices
- Experience with structured and unstructured data processing
- Experience with data exchange formats and protocols
