Sr. Programmer Analyst - Hybrid

My Kalamazoo, MI client is in need of a Programmer Analyst to join their team. The Programmer Analyst role is to define, develop, test, analyze, and maintain new software applications in support of the achievement of business requirements. This includes architecting, writing, coding, testing, and analyzing software programs and applications. The Programmer Analyst III will also research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the production life cycle. This individual will also provide mentoring, support, and guidance to the other technical staff. Responsibilities: • Analysis and Consultation: o Facilitate meetings with business users from across the organization to assess their needs and recommend ways to address them. o Craft requirements documentation, present it to the business users, and refine it with their feedback. • Custom application development: o Architect solutions based on business requirements. o Implement, test, and maintain full-stack web applications, web service APIs, custom integrations, and other custom development projects. o Oversee deployments and application updates with the appropriate stakeholders. o Monitor performance metrics of our custom applications. • Data extraction & report development: o Design and generate ad-hoc reports from our internal systems and data sources to address new business questions. o Design, build, deploy, and maintain self-service reports for the business. These could be for any business unit across the organization. • General Development: o Curate and follow software best practices for reliability, security, performance, and maintainability. o Maintain application code, database scripts, reports, packages, and other artifacts in source control. o Maintain and follow compliance and utilize appropriate, industry-standard measures and reporting guidelines to insure relevant and consistent data is produced. • Communication: o Report on progress and roadblocks to the Application Development team at the morning SCRUMs. o Keep business users apprised of progress on their respective projects and tasks. Skills for this position should include: • Strong database development skills: o Constructing queries with SQL o Data Modeling o Building database objects such as views, stored procedures, and functions • Strong application development skills: o Performing testing, refactoring and improving existing code o Hands-on experience using Microsoft products including Visual Studio, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS desired. o Back-end development experience: ASP.NET Core, MVC, C#, web service development and use (REST/JSON and SOAP/XML), working with vendor SDKs o Front-end development experience: minimally HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Experience with responsive design preferred. Experience with a front-end library is a plus (React, Bootstrap, Angular, etc.). • Development experience with any of these is a plus: o Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, or SharePoint o Altair Monarch or Altair Monarch Server Automator o DocuSign and the DocuSign API • Serve as a mentor (formally or informally) to junior development staff. • Lead internal training as needed. Education and Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems (CIS) or related field preferred. • 3 – 5 years-experience in a similar role. • Professional designation or certification using Microsoft development tools preferred. This is a Hybrid position - 3 days per week on site and 2 days remote. No C2C or sponsorship is available for this position. Must be authorized to work in the US without expiration.