Sr Application Development Specialist

Description:

1. Work closely with the Pod Lead to plan a successful development process which includes development cycles and releases.
2. Self-organize and collaborate with the Pod team and other relevant stakeholders to execute development activities (designing, inspecting, adjusting, implementing code increments) and sustainment activities (operating, maintaining applications once developed including patch and image management tasks) for applications, based on relevant requirements and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Applications may require using one or more programming languages.
3. Guard the quality of the code and prevent accumulation of technical debt by applying sound engineering practices.
4. Support creation of technical documentation for applications delivered.
5. Work with the Pod team to manage the backlog, prioritize user stories, and confirm requirements are clear and complete before development.
6. Discuss business requirements and user stories with the Agile Business Analyst to ensure clear and complete understanding of the requirements before development.
7. Collaborate with the Pod team, Solution Architect and other relevant stakeholders to identify improvements in the design and development of new applications including integrations and associated business processes for the supporting Lines of Business (LoB).
8. Develop and recommend technical strategies and solutions to maintain and/or expand service levels to management.
9. Perform release management and deployment activities and other sustainment activities with other groups as assigned by the Supervisor.
10. Support the Application Service Management lifecycle by analzying trends to prevent occurrence of incidents, problems, and errors and improve overall performance; and conducting break/fix work for business technology solutions, ensuring client satisfaction and management of risk to business processes.
11. Deliver user support services including acting as the initial touchpoint for users to answer inquiries; completing quick fixes regarding technology solutions; and driving incident, issue, and outage management activities including investigation and restoration.
12. Inspect daily work and adapt to changes; and improve team delivery capabilities and satisfaction over time by participating in retrospectives.
13. Perform other duties as required.