DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business requirements.
• Research and exploration of user requirements, costs, and benefits in support of documentation required for the demand management process.
• Responsible for analyzing the business needs to identify new processes and process improvements that will meet those needs.
• Documents current business processes and models to define requirements and/or gaps.
• Analyze detailed system factors including input/output requirements, information and paper flow, hardware, and software needs.
• Analyze “soft" system factors including roles, responsibilities, policy, culture, etc.
• Evaluate the impact of potential software and process changes on the organization.
• Develop and facilitate groups as necessary in pursuit of eliciting and defining requirements.
• Assist in the creation of the business case documentation.
• Understanding of architectural consistency and usability standards.
• Defines and develops user test cases and validates test results during testing.
• Executes unit and functional test cases.
• May conduct system demonstrations and training sessions, as well as participate in design/review of training content.
• Plays a third level support role by helping to troubleshoot and resolve issues with production systems.
• Participates in associate meetings and communicates any concerns to management.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience leading data migration requirements from legacy systems into a new ERP (Sage X3) environment
• Strong hands-on expertise in requirements elicitation, documentation, and management, with emphasis on data mapping, transformation rules, and validation
• Deep understanding of data structures, data quality, and migration best practices, with the ability to identify gaps and risks early
• Self-driven and accountable professional with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to drive outcomes with minimal oversight
• Working knowledge of Confluence and JIRA.
• Experience in any of the following business areas is desired: Sales operations, order entry, accounting, finance, procurement, warehouse operations, order management, and order fulfillment.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ business analysis or systems analysis experience is preferred.
• Bonus: Sage X3 experience (ERP).
Associate is expected to operate at a proficient level across the following areas of technical knowledge and skill:
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Detail oriented, proactive, creative, and efficient
• Intermediate level abilities in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
• Familiarity with application integration methods to include understanding of data mapping process.
• Ability to effectively work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to work on simultaneous and complex projects, with domain expertise in at least one business area.
• Expertise in ERP solution selection and implementation is a plus
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written format
• Ability to work with all levels of associates
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic environment
• Ability to learn new systems and tools
• Knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Active listener
• Effective in a variety of formal/informal presentation settings: one-on-one, small, and large groups.
Job Title: Senior Automation Engineer
Location: Houston/Dallas, TX
Duration: 6+ Months
Job Description:
- Python developer with a minimum of 12 years of professional experience as a part of a software development team focusing on network automation
- Works with Architecture and Engineering to develop software systems that manage networking constructs like firewalls, load balancers, SDN, routers and switches
- Understands complex interconnectivity, topology and relationships of client server, virtual, container and physical environments
- Incorporates KPI metrics into all deployed, modified, or scripted components for which individual has responsibility
- May collaborate with external programmers to coordinate delivery of software applications built offsite
- May provide technical direction and system architecture for individual initiatives
- Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource focusing in Network Automation
- Provides technical knowledge and capabilities as a team member and individual contributor
- Makes complex modifications to existing software applications and modules in accordance with high-level specifications, application support, and industry standards
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Engineering and Production Services teams to understand technical solutions and define strategies for network automation to accelerate time-to-market and reduce operational inefficiencies.
- Develop and maintain a catalog of automation services that can be leveraged for common instrumentation, automation, and operational needs to identify and remediate network events.
- Provide next level escalation support for production triage efforts.
- Manage a continuous improvement / continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline for network development and testing
- Makes complex modifications to existing software applications and modules in accordance with high-level specifications, application support, and industry standards
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the team
- Establishes and maintains a repository of reference architectures, deploys data best practices and lessons learned to drive efficient business development initiatives and continuously explore ways to shorten time to production.
- Applies technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization data roadmap.
- Collaborates with other Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise data solutions.
- Determines security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements.
Requirements:
- Education: bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or in related fields
Experience Range:
- More than 12 Years of relevant experience
Foundational Skills:
- Strong software development and design skills (Python), understanding of SDLC, agile methodologies and tooling
- Strong programming skills and development experience: Python and frameworks such as Django, Flask, Jinja, SQLAlchemy
- Strong communication skills to explain strategy, clarify requirements, facilitate successful testing and adoption.
- Experience with Git, Jira, Jenkins, Continuous Build systems with automated testing (unit and end-to-end testing)
- Experience with Infrastructure as code, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA & OOD).
- OS Platforms: Cisco, RHEL
- Automation: Configuration via Ansible
- Experience with workflow tools/frameworks, Pronghorn
- Network Systems: Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers, F5 GTM, LTM, IPAM, DDI, Avi, SDN
- Experience in using Agile Tools such as Jira & Confluence
- Use of Agile Processes and providing a leadership role in the various agile ceremonies (Scrums, Retrospectives, Sprint Planning, Program Planning & Backlog Grooming) as product owner
- Experience of software architecture and development
- Scripting: Python/Perl/Shell Scripting
- Source Code Management: GIT/Subversion
- Testing: Unit/Functional/Integration/Performance/Security
- CICD PIpelines & Tools: Jenkins/Ansible
- Good understanding of Application Management
- Auto build/test/deployment
- Security Integration: Active Directory/LDAP/OAuth/Public Key Infrastructure and Certificates
- Logging: Splunk & ELK
- Demonstrable leadership skills in design of platforms, planning & delivering projects
- Good communication skills to facilitate priorities and tasks to all involved parties such as the team, stakeholders, scrum master and senior management
- Good Familiarity with software architecture:
- API design & architecture
Skills:
- Analytical Thinking
- Architecture
- Result Orientation
- Solution Design
- Technical Strategy Development
- Application Development
- Collaboration
- Data Management
- DevOps Practices
- Risk Management
- Agile Practices
- Automation
- Influence
- Solution Delivery Process
- Test Engineering
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