Associate AWS Developer

General Purpose

We are looking to hire an Associate AWS Developer, with excellent technical and communication skills, to effectively collaborate with Digital, IT and business stakeholders to understand their needs and be responsible for the development and implementation of integration components across the Digital and Retail engineering team. This role is responsible for integrations between systems such as back and front-end web applications, warehouse management, order management, point of sale, ERP, and CRM. The focus of this role will be to work closely with Senior Developers to develop a micro services architecture to implement a consistent and modern integration framework using cloud providers such as AWS. Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle. Apply knowledge of best practices to drive consistency and reliability of the systems. Help create an environment open to sharing knowledge and learning from one another across the digital engineering team. This will be a hands-on technical role in a public facing, enterprise class digital ecosystem working to complete complex projects and solve technical problems across systems

This role transcends organizational and geographical boundaries as it aims at supporting and enabling the various divisions of the Herman Miller business across the globe. The ideal candidate should understand the software development lifecycle and use agile methodology to design, develop, test, and implement solutions that deliver on end-user needs.

Essential functions

Assists in defining best practices within functional area.

Assists in the definition of technical requirements and solutions to drive projects through all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Builds and maintains good, positive relationships with both internal and external partners.

Conceptualizes and executes solutions to complex problems.

Create and maintain technical support documentation.

Develops and actively supplies implementations, services definitions, component interfaces, and experimental prototypes to the engineering teams.

Develops integrations that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric, and global.

Ensures proper integration of system components, and performs hands-on technical tasks such as systems integration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Identifies opportunities and improvements to technologies across functional area.

Maintains and supports existing applications including functional enhancements and issue resolution.

Part of the team responsible for the design, development, and implementation of a modern integration platform for the global Retail and Digital Systems architecture.

Shares passion for creating an environment of shared knowledge to grow and mentor others and continuously improve technical capabilities. Write unit and integration tests.

Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education / Experience

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant academic discipline.

Minimum 2 and up to 4+ years of professional technology experience in integration and/or application development.

Skills and Abilities

Thorough understanding of AWS Cloud Services including Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, Cognito, DynamoDB, Step Functions, S3, EventBridge, Appsync, IAM and AWS Transfer.

Must be able to demonstrate ability to use Terraform to create infrastructure on AWS for components such as API Gateway, SNS, Cloudwatch, SQS and Event Bridge

Understanding of Serverless Framework technology used to create lambda, IAM roles, Appsync and other AWS application resources. Thorough understanding of Node.js and/or Python. Thorough understanding of micro services architecture and best practices and how technology solutions can support them.

Active participant in the technical development of frameworks within the functional area.

Experience in, developing, and integrating solutions in a digital and retail environment.

Experience integrating to systems such as Commerce, CMS, CRM, POS, WMS, OMS, and ERP.

Experience working with web services and APIs. Proficiency in retail, commerce, and order processing systems, including experience with multiple Salesforce Clouds (Sales, Service, Commerce, Marketing) is a plus.

Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).

Experience developing integrations, API endpoint management, and programming against protocols/frameworks such REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, and GraphQL.

Familiarity with API management and tools/frameworks such as Boomi and AWS API Gateway.

Experience with headless architectures. Experience with solution design and creating technical documentation such as blueprints and diagrams is a plus

Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to communicate well virtuallywith fellow developers and business partners across physical office locations.

Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.

Strong analysis skills and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Experience working on an Agile development team preferably using SCRUM.

Active participation through all phases of the development lifecycle. Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.

Self-driven, motivated, result oriented. Aptitude to independently learn new technologies. Strong organizational skills to deal with a varied workload and be responsive to the needs of the business

Understands the necessity of and contributes to efficient coding standards. Demonstrated ability to influence and consult (providing options with pros, cons and risks) around all key technical decisions during project delivery.

Ability to effectively use office automation, communication, software and tools currently used in the HMI office environment.

Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without supervision.

This role will work in the shift timings of 12:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. or 2:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. IST.

The employees could be requested to work in a different shift on rare occasions to support the business during a critical issue or for any releases/migrations that maybe scheduled.

Reporting structure

Locally reporting to Working Team lead in India.

Matrix reporting to WTL/Manager in US

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