Senior Software Developer

Brainhunter is currently seeking “Senior Software Developer(.NET)” to work for our valued Financial Service Client. This is a six month contract opportunity and requires the successful consultant to be on-site 3 days a week in Downtown Toronto.

Role profile description:

The Software Developer plays a key role in the analysis, development, installation, testing, maintenance and support of software products or integrated systems.The Software Developer is a fully proficient software developer, who uses their past experiences and industry knowledge to troubleshoot and solution problems effectively and efficiently.This role applies broad knowledge to difficult work and supports less experienced employees in their development. This role is accountable for proficient and independent software development, managing relationships and collaboration with stakeholders.

Product Solution and Delivery (Development):

• Delivers code based on specifications and/or develops, modifies, configures, maintains or integrates solutions to meet design specifications to meet business functional requirements and non-functional engineering
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• Configures and integrates software components and third-party software products, tools and solutions
• Facilitates and actively participates in meetings, walkthroughs and reviews of software development deliverables
• Delivers fixes and improvements to existing software products, maintains environments and versions, adhering to standards and compile versions
• Ensures technical responsibility over assigned software products and codebases
• Researches and designs automated processes to accommodate environment changes affecting application functional and non-functional performance

Problem Solving & Analysis:

• Analyzes current software products, produces or contributes to the design documentation and technical specifications for development

• Performs scoping, estimating and planning

• Applies software engineering patterns to lead the resolution of complex problems, requiring the identification and analysis of alternative courses of action, involving the development of new approaches, tactics and initiatives

• Supports the technical troubleshooting and incident management to resolve complex problems

• Ensure data designs and specifications are in alignment with performance requirements and standards 3. Quality Testing

• Responsible for the quality and accuracy of software products

• Manages coding, engineering, configuration, integration and quality standards

• Partners with the QA team to create, automate and maintain software product test suites that enables efficiencies in the work or testing process

• Contributes towards the development of processes and procedures used by the team

• Creates and maintain test documentation, and reviews test strategy as required

Continual improvement:

• Contributes to and/or actively promotes the development, review and implementation of new technologies, methods, improvements, practices and tools through learning, evaluating and adapting industry standards, methodologies and best practices that provide business value and demonstrate practice maturity

• Provides compliance management by participating in audits, governance and support activities

• Works in tandem with strategy or related teams to ensure software solutions develop for current initiatives align with future vision

Customer focus:

• Is a trusted advisor within the business unit, management, internal and external partners

• Applies deep understanding of the business areas and the impact technology has on the customer experience

• Partners with product owners and/or architects to develop technical requirements and engineering/non-functional specifications

• Resolve client issues as they arise in collaboration with other teams 6. Technical leadership and mentorship

• Provides direction and leadership to less senior professionals, and is recognized as a technical leader throughout the department

• Mentors, trains and coaches’ various resources (eg: cross-discipline practitioners, business/3rd party representatives) on development lifecycle strategies, methods, processes, tools and approaches

• Shares knowledge and experience with members of the team to identify and share opportunities to improve the work, identify better ways of doing things and carry those ideas to the rest of the team

Tools/skillset:

• 5-10 years experience in .NET development including desktop applications
• Experience with VB.NET
• Experience with DB2 and MS SQL Server
• Experience with GitLab
• Experience with Crystal Reports
• University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience Related industry certifications are considered an asset

Knowledge :

• Broad and deep working knowledge of software development lifecycle methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, Iterative, Agile)
• Broad and deep working knowledge of structured design skills (e.g. object oriented, microservices) and understanding of design patterns
• Strong knowledge of data persistence patterns (e.g. relational, unstructured or cached forms)
• Strong knowledge of engineering practices such as continuous integration, code quality analysis and code reviews
• Strong knowledge and understanding of emergent engineering practices (e.g. Test-Driven Development, DevOps, cloud software development, APIs, reactive programming, big data, containerization)

Experience :

• Technical leadership experience on large, complex projects/initiatives in a team environment
• One or more development platforms (e.g. .NET, Mainframe) Building complex software products (e.g. desktop applications, responsive web apps, web services, batch processing systems, ETL systems)
• Test driven development & test frameworks
• Cloud migration and adoption
• Management of coding, usability and quality standards
• Managing interactions with production/application support while performing under pressure during a critical incident

How to Apply: Please email your resume to Reema Kaur at reema.kaur@brainhunter.com

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for Interviews will be contacted.