Lead Developer, Data Engineer

Overview

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people's homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making-and our story is still unfolding.

We're here for it. We think you should be too. We're looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Lead Developer, Data Engineer.

The Lead Developer is responsible for guiding a team of developers to understand product requirements, developing the architecture and specifications for systems to support them. The Lead Developer will provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship. This role will represent and guide our development team setting the pace, path, and standard for all programming activities. The lead developer also works with managers and peers to improve technical processes. This individual should be able to work with both custom and package software.

This position is fully remote.

A day in the life as a Lead Developer, Data Engineer...

• Develop detailed design to align with the business requirements: function and process specifications. Assist with technical design, unit test plan (where needed), functional program design, and technical program design (where needed)
• Working with the team and business colleagues, define KPI's, data integrity measurements and a data integrity assurance process
• Estimate the work effort to complete the business requirements. If necessary, collaborate with other technology domains for a complete solution estimate
• Oversee the tech work plan, track progress, and manage issues using approved tools
• Ensure programs are well-structured, well-documented and written to standards; conduct walkthroughs, review code and/or mappings, review unit tests
• Collaborate with QA to prepare test environments, execute system tests, and develop system test plans. Assist with UAT and ensure well-structured and documented programs. Review code and testing to ensure quality
• Participate in the definition and setup of training environments when needed
• Participate in installation of software and execution of conversion
• Monitor system and coordinate user service requests
• Develop, measure, communicate and manage user agreed to service levels for data currency, accuracy, and availability

• Participate and/or lead technical design meetings and assist defining system architecture

What you'll bring to the table...

• Ability to develop a technical software solution to a business problem utilized by the supply chain and ability to define the solution in verbal and documented states
• Ability to create estimates for software development based on technical solutions that address business requirements
• Ability to develop a work plan, taking into account the defined efforts by all contributing technology -impacted domains
• Ability to coalesce work plans into a roadmap for supply chain applications
• Knowledge of vendor portals and visibility products like GT Nexus
• Ability to interface packages like GT Nexus to legacy host systems like the I-Series
• Ability to develop and prioritize EDI transaction processing
• Listening and comprehension skills in working alongside business disciplines and other technology disciplines

We'd love to hear from you if you have...

• College degree in an applicable field of study with eight or more years of software application development experience
• Demonstrated logical analysis and problem solving skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of the software application technologies utilized in software application team to which Developer is assigned

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