Sr Software Engineer- Sterling B2B Integrator

Unclassified - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

About the position

The Software Engineer IV is an experienced Engineer with a demonstrated track record delivering high-quality, innovative, and fully functional software solutions that adhere to coding standards and technical design. This role will research, design, develop and implement new software in addition to enhancing existing software capabilities. The Software Engineer IV will work on various, ambiguous, and complex issues, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors, thorough understanding of the business strategy, operations, markets, and key stakeholders. This role will also collaborate with other Squad members, stakeholders, and the Product team to ensure that products meet business, functional, and technical requirements and are scalable in nature. This will include translating business and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested, and deployed technology solutions by gathering user requirements, defining system functionality, and writing code in various languages. The Software Engineer IV can significantly impact a project both as an individual technical contributor, technical leader, and mentor to more junior Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop the technical design for solutions based on the defined scope, requirements, and functional design provided by the Product team and other stakeholders.
• Build and configure Functional or technical components (interfaces, conversions, reports, workflows) so that solution design meets business needs and solution architecture standards.
• Write and document programming code to meet the gathered requirements.
• Create new SBI workflows and maps as needed to meet business requirements.
• Perform unit & integration testing for new or updated integrations.
• Keep SBI platform up-to-date and running optimally through patching and performance tuning.
• Perform code reviews and quality assurance to ensure compliance to technical standards and business requirements.
• Collaborate with Squad to support the Product team to create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Prepare development and test environments, conduct test readiness to proceed with testing, and collaborate with to execute testing.
• Fix bugs identified during quality assurance and testing.
• Continuously reduce technical debt (e.g., create technical debt stories, remove bugs) and decommission legacy applications and solutions.
• Perform updates and enhancements to the solution, as needed to SBI environment.
• Release software into production and perform release testing (system integration, mock conversion, parallel, regression, performance and stress, infrastructure).
• Identify opportunities and lead specific initiatives for improving way of working in teams and in eliminating technical debt.
• Develop solutions to highly complex technical issues and problems that impact multiple areas or disciplines.
• Communicate with internal team members across multiple areas and client team members.
• Act as a project/team leader regarding solution design, process and/or approaches.
• Act as a subject matter expert on technology solution.
• Responsible for coaching/mentoring junior engineers and 3rd part support vendor.
• Consistently deliver very high-quality work in cross-functional environments - seen as a consistent and high-performing technical leader among peers.
• Have a balanced approach to team empowerment and leadership driving successful brainstorming sessions and solid technical conclusions to work approaches while modeling self-accountability, continuous development, and team contributions.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Technical field and Master's Degree in Technology and/or Business-related field; equivalent trainings/certifications/experience equivalency will be considered.
• 5 or more years of equivalent experience in relevant job or field of technology.
• 2 or more years of equivalent experience in an advanced role or technical capacity, leading teams directly or indirectly.
• 2 or more years' experience directly responsible for guiding, training, or onboarding team members in relevant technologies, capabilities, or skills.
• Proven work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer.
• Experience designing interactive applications.
• 8+ years of experience with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (SBI).
• Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining Business Processes (BPML).
• Strong experience in map development (EDI, FF, XML).
• Experience in SBI administration (patching, tuning, configuration).
• Proficiency with various SBI communication protocols including AS2, HTTP/S, FTP/S, JMS, MQ.
• Experience with Oracle/SQL, Unix/AIX.
• Experience in coding to read message from different messaging queues like JMS, Tibco, MQ, Kafka and others.
• Experience with test-driven development.
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting software issues and debugging a large codebase.

Nice-to-haves

• Post graduate degree advanced training and or certifications in relevant field/s of study preferred.
• 3 or more years' experience in Agile teams and Product/Platform based operating model.
• 3 or more years of experience in leading teams or advancing technical capability in teams.
• Experience in retail or grocery preferred.