Sr IT Developer

At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.

Consider applying here, if you want to:   

• Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.   
• Develop lasting relationships with great people.   
• Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.

Essential Functions

• Provide technical leadership to application development, enhancement or maintenance projects executed using established SDLC methodologies
• Develop software solutions by collaborating with business analysts and business users; studying systems flow, data usage, and business processes
• Responsible for issue, problem and change management functions to ensure application availability, uptime and service levels to business users
• Create process flows, high-level functional and detailed technical design specifications from business requirements
• Follow through with commitments and proactively assume additional responsibilities
• Develop, generate and deliver steering committee meeting presentations to communicate project status, seek guidance and drive decisions 
• Enforce and manage project deadlines and schedules
• Analyze large, complex systems to determine performance bottlenecks, application bugs, and opportunities to improve efficiency
• Plan and conduct software architecture assessments that examine overall system/solution configuration and performance
• Identify areas of instability and deviations from best practices amongst application components
• Participate in performance, load, and stress testing, and remediation of issues identified
• Write well-designed and testable code
• Review code, provide expert advice and enforce development/industry standards
• Recommend improvements to existing programs as required
• Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
• Comply with enterprise standards and development guidelines
• Follow documentation, version control and testing, and migration standards
• Ability to plan, track, escalate, and deliver upon tasks and timelines assigned
• Available for 24/7 support (scheduled and off hours)
• Provide customer support for business critical application problems and issues.
• Work with onsite and offshore consultants as required
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools and programming techniques
• Communicate with internal and external partners as required
• Mentors junior team members
• Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without prior notice.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • 4 Years  – Experience in software development
  • 4 Years  – Experience in Position
  • 2 Years  – Experience managing people/projects

                *experience may include a combination of work experience and education

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • 6 Years– Experience in software development
  • 6 Years – Experience working in Position          
  • 4 Years  – Experience managing people/projects

*experience may include a combination of work experience and education

Competencies

This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:

• Lead Like an Owner
  • Makes safety the number one priority
  • Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
  • Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
  • Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
  • Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
  • Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers
• InnovACT
  • Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
  • Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
  • Increases performance through greater efficiency
• Find a Way
  • Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts
  • Understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions
  • Seeks solutions rather than placing blame
• Empowered to be Great
  • Consistently looks for ways to improve one’s self through growth and development opportunities
  • Communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across
  • Communicates effectively to manage expectations

Additionally, the Sr. IT Developer is expected to demonstrate:

• Accuracy, completeness and pay close attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and multi-task effectively
• Solid problem solving and analytical capabilities
• Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary
• Promptly notifies his/her manager about any problems that affect his/her ability to accomplish planned goals
• Must be a resourceful and innovative problem solver
• Ability to work in a professional manner, be flexible, and handle interactions with all levels of the organization
• Demonstrate ability to communicate well with other members of the IT department
• Self-directed, organized, and motivated
• Good written and verbal communications skills are required
• Excellent team player

Education

• Minimum Required: 
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

• Preferred: 
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Certification/License:

• Required:            NA
• Preferred:           NA

Foreign Language

• Required:            NA
• Preferred:           NA

Typical Compensation Range

Benefits

https://careers.niagarawater.com/us/en/benefits

* *Los Angeles County applicants only** Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the California Fair Chance Act, and any other applicable local and state laws.

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