Senior Programmer

Definition:  Under general supervision from the IT Department Principal Architect, designs, codes, tests, documents and maintains all custom designed software applications. Assists departments with developing in-house data management programs or contracting outside software development services. This job class is treated as FLSA Exempt.

Essential Functions:  Essential functions may vary among positions and may include the following tasks and other characteristics. This list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of tasks performed by all positions in this classification.

• Provides input during project planning and scheduling.
• Manages resource allocation as needed.

• Provides training in existing technologies and methods.
• Recommends training courses relevant to current and future technologies.
• Provides formal and informal peer code reviews, documents findings and provides guidance and recommendations for improvements as relevant to Programmer II and I staff.
• Assists the Enterprise Architect and Principle Architect by performing reviews to ensure quality standards are being met and guidelines and procedures being adhered to by all members of the development team.
• Establishes best practices through mentoring and ensures implemented best practices are consistently adhered to.

• Provides immediate notification of problems and provides recommendations for solutions.
• Assists in the preparation of formal presentations and communications of project status for project stakeholders.

• Provides top-level support for issues that cannot be resolved by Programmer I or II.
• Performs root cause analysis on critical and recurring issues and implements changes to prevent recurrence.
• Provides 24x7 support of critical applications as assigned and directed by the Enterprise Architect.

• Ensures all code artifacts are adequately and consistently tested and quality checked prior to release into production environments.

• Maintains custom Java packages and API's that can be used by Programmer I and II.
• Manages and publishes the documentation of Java API's through the use of JavaDocs or other appropriate tools.
• Performs all steps of lifecycle software development from UML modeling to class design to coding.

• Ensures connectivity between presentation-tier and business logic-tier.
• Performs load test analysis and monitors the web servers for usage and traffic.

• Verifies that upon completion of the project, all states of the software are consistent including development, testing and production.
• Ensures that a training environment is maintained and can be easily reset between sessions.
• Prevents changes from being made outside of the software development process and moved directly into production.

• Knowledge of IT infrastructures and Applications.
• Knowledge of object oriented programming and data normalization.
• Knowledge of Java, J2EE & HTML.
• Knowledge of systems configuration, security and resource monitoring.

• Skill with problem solving and group analysis.
• Skill resolving application development and software installation problems.
• Skill designing and developing software systems.
• Skill communicating effectively both verbally and in writing within the team environment.

• Ability to learn new programming languages, frameworks and methodologies quickly with minimum supervision.
• Ability to accurately and quickly identify and diagnose application development related problems and take appropriate corrective action.
• Ability to develop and maintain positive and effective working relationships at all levels within the Tribal Government and Community.
• Ability to perform tasks requiring advanced problem solving skills.
• Ability to identify long-term impact of recommended application configurations.
• Ability to work independently and make good judgment regarding project issues.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to explain complex problems or situations.

• • Education:  A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Engineering or related IT discipline required.
  • Experience:  5 years experience in development, implementation and maintenance of large and medium-scale systems required. 5 years demonstrated experience with Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Spring Framework, and Software Development Lifecycle methodologies (SDLC) required.
  • Demonstrated successful experience performing the following technologies required:
    • Model View Controller architecture
    • Spring framework (Boot, WebMVC, Data, Security, and others)
    • Client side technologies including JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX, and JSON
    • JPA with Hibernate or MyBatis
    • Legacy JSP and J2EE frameworks
    • Object Oriented Analysis and Object Oriented Design methodologies
    • Adherence to Agile or Waterfall Software Development Lifecycle Methodologies
    • SQL
    • Microsoft SQL Server or equivalent database technology
  • Demonstrated successful experience in the following technologies is preferred:
    • WildFly or similar application server in a clustered/load balanced environment
    • JMS, RabbitMQ, Active MQ or similar middleware technologies
    • Continuous integration/delivery automation with Hudson/Jenkins or similar
    • Lifecycle management tools (Atlassian Jira and Confluence or similar)
  • Comprehensive understanding of systems and applications so that practical solutions can be provided that factor system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability and overall cost to develop and maintain.
  • Experience with intranet/internet development and implementation required.
• • Equivalency: Any equivalent combination of education and/or experience that would allow the candidate to satisfactorily perform the duties of this position, will be considered.
  • Underfill Eligibility: An enrolled Community Member whom closely qualifies for the minimum qualifications for a position may be considered for employment under SRPMIC Policy 2-19, Underfill.

• Special Requirements:   May be required to work outside normal work hours including nights, weekends and holidays. All applicants applying for jobs will be subject to Pre-Employment Drug Test and extensive Fingerprint and Background Check. In addition, all employees providing services to a campus with children will be subject to the “Community Code of Ordinances”, Chapter 11 “Minors”, Article X. “Investigation of Persons Working with Children”, random drug testing and completion of a background check every five (5) years.

  Prior to hire as an employee, applicants will be subject to drug and alcohol testing. Will be required to pass a pre-employment background/fingerprint check. 

   

  "SRPMIC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer" Preference will be given to a qualified: Community Member Veteran, Community Member, Spouse of Community Member, qualified Native American, and then other qualified candidate.

   

  In order to obtain preference, the following is required: 1) Qualified Community Member Veteran (DD-214) will be required at the time of application submission 2) Qualified Community Member (must provide Tribal I.D at time of application submission),3) Spouse of a Community Member (Marriage License/certificate and spouse Tribal ID or CIB is required at time of application submission), and 4) Native American (Tribal ID or CIB required at time of application submission).

  Documents may be submitted by one of the following methods: 

  1) attach to application

  2) fax (480) 362-5860

  3) mail or hand deliver to Human Resources.

  Documentation must be received by position closing date. 

  The IHS/BIA Form-4432 is not accepted. 

  Your Tribal ID/CIB must be submitted to HR-Recruitment-Two Waters.

Salary : $118,143 - $168,355