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Senior Application Developer

Location:

Kansas City, MO, US, 64106

Best People + Right Culture. These are the driving forces behind JE Dunn’s success.

By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company’s rewards, we’ve found a sustainable way to grow in our industry for the last 95+ years.

Our diverse teams around the country strive to enrich lives through inspired people and places every day, and we need inspired people like you to join us in our pursuit of building perfection.

Role Summary

The Senior Application Developer will design, develop, test, and implement complex software systems. This position will be responsible for modifying existing software, analyzing business requirements, and maintaining system or program documentation. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

Autonomy & Decision-Making: Makes decisions on routine matters, provides recommendations to supervisor and refers all exceptions to supervisor.
Career Path: Application Development Manager

Key Role Responsibilities - Core

APPLICATION DEVELOPER FAMILY - CORE

Has responsibility for troubleshooting and fixing application issues that have been assigned.
Consults with internal employees to analyze the potential project business requirements and determines how best to meet those requirements. Will evaluate whether a technological solution is appropriate.
Designs, develops, tests, and implements new applications and reports that meet the needs of the business and help resolve business problems.
Modifies existing applications and reports to correct issues or to adapt to new hardware/software versions.
Consults with internal development team members to evaluate software interfaces, develop specifications, and gather performance requirements.
Prepares and maintains project and system documentation.
Provides updates to end users on project status, proposals and technical issues such as software system design and maintenance.

Consults with individual client groups building business requirements for assigned projects with more focus on internal employees and business processes.
Has responsibility for supporting existing business processes.
Focuses primarily on the reasoning behind business processes and provides recommendations to improve those processes.

Key Role Responsibilities - Additional Core

APPLICATION DEVELOPER SENIOR

In addition, this position will be responsible for the following:

Consults with internal and external users to analyze the potential project business requirements and determines how best to meet those requirements. Will evaluate whether a given technological solution is appropriate.
Develops, tests, and implements new applications and reports that meet the needs of the business, with an emphasis on project design and development using end-to-end software development life cycle principles.
Consults with IT department and other team members to gather and analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan the implementation of new systems, software packages, and patches to better enhance functionality and productivity of both internal and external end users.
Works with customers and other internal departments on project proposals and technical issues such as software system design and maintenance.
Monitors processing and functioning of equipment and systems to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
Has responsibility for utilizing best practices of good coding standards, in both writing code and quality coding.
Analyzes information to determine, recommend and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.
Works with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software, develop specifications and performance requirements, and resolve customer problems.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Ability to perform work accurately and completely, and in a timely manner
Communication skills, verbal and written
Ability to quickly and effectively solve complex problems
Ability to build relationships with team members that transcend a project
Proficiency in MS Office - Intermediate
Proficiency in standard front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) - Advanced
Proficiency in Object-Oriented server side technologies (PHP, C#, or equivalent) - Advanced
Proficiency in SQL - Advanced
Proficiency in PL/SQL - Intermediate
Proficiency in relational database structure & design - Intermediate
Proficiency in full Software Development Life Cycle principles - Intermediate
Ability to provide mentorship to less experienced team members
Ability to build relationships and collaborate within a team, internally and externally

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (Required)
In lieu of the above requirements, equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

Experience

5+ Years application development experience (Required)

Working Environment

At JE Dunn, our approach to benefits means caring for the whole person, and it begins with a comprehensive benefits program that meets families' needs. We offer competitive and award-winning benefit packages including medical, dental, vision, 401(K) and Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

JE Dunn Construction is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and it is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. JE Dunn Construction is a background screening, drug-free workplace.

JE Dunn provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for a job, please submit your request to accommodations@jedunn.com

JE Dunn Construction Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of JE Dunn Construction without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of JE Dunn Construction Company. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Why People Work Here

At JE Dunn we offer our employees an inspired place to enrich their life and the lives of those around them

Building on our rich history, our employee owners are shaping the future of JE Dunn. In our team-focused environment we do life together and are generously rewarded for our efforts