Developer – Software Applications
Responsibilities:
Operations, Collaboration & Partnerships
• Work with Corporate Development team and vendor partners to build integrations to and from 3rd party broadcast scheduling system
• Report on 3rd party product performance
• Design, develop and maintain end-user reports that cannot be supplied by scheduling system
• Leverage Sinclair standards to design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Support technology upgrades and perform technical troubleshooting/issue resolution
• Ensure that code conforms to business requirements/company policies, security requirements, software quality standards, and established procedures
• Design, document and implement procedures and techniques that are consistent with best practices for analyzing, testing, and evaluating the risk (software & business), accuracy, completeness, internal integrity/consistency, testability and overall quality of system
• Assist with test plans, test cases, test data, project test progress and release reports, application turnover documents and test schedules
• Submit and track production (maintenance) and release issues
Performance Improvement
• Track operations and constantly look for ways to make things work better, faster, and smoother
• Collaborate on and adhere to coding standards, methodologies and sustainable processes
• Collaborate on and adhere to performance metrics to establish process success
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in IT discipline or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years software development experience
• Experience in designing and developing system integrations
• Experience in report development and report development tools (i.e. Microsoft SSRS, PowerBI)
• Boomi experience strongly preferred
• Experience with business process automation tools (e.g. Pega) preferred
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience; experience in driving change in current SDLC with a strong continuous improvement mindset
• Experience with common development tools (i.e. Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure DevOps), source control management system (i.e. Team Foundation Server) preferred
• Excellent technical writing skills with experience documenting and analyzing complex business rules/processes utilizing wireframes and data/process flow diagrams
• Solid experience querying and analyzing complex databases; experience working with relational databases
• Experience with enterprise integration tools, middleware technologies, and application and data integration patterns including ESB, MOM, JMS, SOAP/REST web services, databases, ETL preferred
• Agile experience a plus
• Thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, and demonstrate strong judgment in the face of ambiguity