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This position is on the Connectivity Enabled Solutions Team in Connectivity Department within the CAT Digital organization. This team has accountability for

• Building common datasets to support Connectivity initiatives.
• Streamline reporting of data through various sources, enhancing business logic to improve data reporting, and delivering visualized data in a consistent way for internal and external business users.
• Building solutions to monitor and improve telematics data quality.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to design, development, code review, and deployment.
• Understanding the business requirements for new features and working with business and business analysts for gathering & refining business requirements and to recommend any changes which could do business impact.
• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Preparing the technical design documents based on the business requirements.
• Design & build new features leveraging out of the box components as we'll as extending/customizing where necessary to meet business needs.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
• Leading Development & unit/integration testing of new features for the scrum team.
• Performing Code Reviews, Performance Assessments, Architecture discussions.
• Ensuring team s overall code quality and velocity
• For newly released features, work with the support team for addressing critical production issues in a timely fashion.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features.
• Mentor and assist software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed.
• Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.

Basic Qualifications:

Educational Background: A four-year degree from an accredited college or university is required. A masters degree in computer science or a related field is preferred.

Java Development (APP): 8+ years of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java, or at least 5 years of experience in Java with a masters degree in computer science or a related field.

API: 6+ years of experience designing, building, and integrating Rest API, SOAP API

Database Management: 5+ years of experience in database design, development, and administration. Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, etc

Cloud Database Services : 3+ years of experience with cloud-based database services, particularly within AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments.

Web Development Skills: 2+ years of experience coding in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Web Components.

Front-End Development: 3+ years of experience integrating customer-facing applications using front-end frameworks and libraries such as Angular, React, Polymer, or Vue.

Familiarity with design patterns is essential.

Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following:

• Spring Java Framework such as Core, Boot, MVC, Security, AOP, etc AWS environment such as Lambda functions, SQS, EC2, S3, ECR, ECS, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, ALB etc
• Frontend development with Angular, experience working with Templates, DI, Services, Component, Modules, Routing, Pipes, Hooks, Lazy loading, etc
• Unit testing framework such as JUnity, Mockito, etc
• Datastores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Snowflake.
• Development and integration of REST and SOAP APIs. Authentication and Authorization such as OAuth 2.0, JWT, Bearer Tokens, API Keys, etc
• SSO, cookies and session management, etc
• API security header, data encryption, rate limiting, input validation, etc
• API tools such as Swagger, Postman, Apigee, JMeter, etc
• Container Platforms and Orchestration such as Docker, ECR, Kubernetes, Padman, etc
• Git repositories, code versioning, development and integration of CI/CD pipelines, etc

Performs implementation, regular problem solving, maintenance and support for a agile software development.

Responsibilities

• Designing, modifying, developing, writing and implementing software programming applications for target system using agile methods.
• Acquiring client requirements; resolving workflow problems through automation optimization.
• Writing source codes for new applications, and/or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications.
• Utilizing automated testing tools to perform the testing and maintenance.

Skill Descriptors

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.

Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.

Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.

Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.

Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge:

Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Conducts walkthroughs and monitors effectiveness and quality of the development activities.
• Elaborates on multiple-development toolkits for traditional and web-based software.
• Has participated in development of multiple or large software products.
• Contrasts advantages and drawbacks of different development languages and tools.
• Estimates and monitors development costs based on functional and technical requirements.
• Provides consulting on both selection and utilization of developers workbench tools.

Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Describes similarities and differences of life cycle for new product development vs. new release.
• Identifies common issues, problems, and considerations for each phase of the life cycle.
• Works with a formal life cycle methodology.
• Explains phases, activities, dependencies, deliverables, and key decision points.
• Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.

Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.

Level Working Knowledge:

Has experience with designing data exchange interfaces to and from software product.

Describes tools and techniques for extraction, transformation and loading of electronic data.

Cites examples of common linkage requirements for software products and vendors.

Works with integrating software into the customer or partner framework and infrastructure.

Participates in the development of technology interfaces and bridges.

Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Demonstrates experience with the architecture and design of major or multiple products.
• Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.
• Explains design considerations for commercial database systems, operating systems and web.
• Displays experience in estimating the cost of a specific design of a proposed product.
• Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
• Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.

Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of technical aspects of a software product; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.

Level Working Knowledge:

Maintains and utilizes data related to install base configurations and environments.

Solicits customer feedback, reports and monitors bugs and implementation issues.

Participates in defining and conducting technical acceptance tests.

Participates in creating technical requirements for software development and deployment.

Explains basic environment and product configuration options.

Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Participates in test readiness reviews, functional, volume, and load testing.
• Describes key features and aspects of a specific testing discipline or methodology.
• Tests software components for compliance with functional requirements and design specifications.
• Explains procedures for documenting test activities and results (e.g. errors, non-conformance, etc)
• Conducts functional and performance testing on aspects of assigned products.