Senior Applications Developer

Purpose of the Position

Advances Simmons Foods information management capabilities by meeting the needs of the various business units for major applications, including their functional, technical, design, development, deployment and maintenance.

Essential Position Responsibilities - This is a Salary Exempt position.

Develops Custom Applications: Develop custom applications, setup, training, and reports as required by Simmons Foods. Required to utilize complex tools to build triggers, alerts, cron jobs, interfaces, functions, packages, procedures and develop technical documentation to support all the above. Participate in upgrades and retrofit of reports and custom programs. Provides functional and highly technical user support where needed.

Maintains purchased Applications: Maintains, implements, upgrades and supports existing applications that are purchased by Simmons Information Services. Builds and performs training and documentation for these applications. Performs migration of legacy applications to current applications.

Troubleshoots: Quickly recognizes issues and performs the steps needed to solve the issue as quickly and effectively as possible. Includes other team members depending on the magnitude of the issue. Participates in After Action Review with the IT team to document resolution and what was learned for future reference.

Gives recommendations and feedback to the Application Manager and helps facilitate the growth of the Application Developers. Validates any work done, whether development or issue resolution will be thoroughly tested outside of the production environment before implementing into the production environment.

Provides support: Provides functional and highly technical user support where needed.

Participates as a member of the Team. Participates in ongoing development, communication and implementation of team concepts, programs and policies; coordinates work to ensure best practices with all team members. Attends appropriate team meetings. As a member of the Team, fosters strong cohesiveness regarding all major issues; e.g., direction, annual plan, budget, policy changes, etc. Accepts responsibility to quickly identify any areas that lack cohesiveness, bringing them to the attention of the team leader and working with the team in a supportive manner to resolve issues and actively look for ways, and reinforces actions needed, to achieve synergy possible within the larger organization.

Simmons Operating systems principles and objectives: Is familiar with Simmons' established operating systems (e.g. quality, security, office environment, company policies, LEAN); understands the responsibility to maintain familiarity with the systems and this position's role in support of these systems - including a consideration of the impact of individual actions on the systems and the responsibility to communicate concerns and improvement ideas.

Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives: This position description is intended to guide the activities of the Senior Applications Developer and is not intended to limit the thinking and creativity of the person to the work of this function nor is it intended that this describe all the work that may be required of the person in this position.

Physical Activities: Must be able to spend time sitting at a computer as well as working with personnel in various plant environments.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): As required by visiting facility

Travel: One to two offsite classes per year. Travel to Simmons facilities depending on focus

Technical Experience: 10 years applicable functional and technical software experience. Computer Skills (Not all required depending on particular business focus): Report Design Aid (RDA), Table Design Aid (TDA), Form Design Aid (FDA), Business View Design Aid (BVDA), Processing Option Design Aid (PODA), Universal Table Browser (UTB), Business Function Design, Object Management Workbench (OMW), C/C++ - used in the modification and debugging of business functions, SQL, PL/SQL, Microsoft Office, Apex, PLM technical, BI Publisher, Discover Plus, Discoverer Admin, SQL Developer, Mtech Reporting. Knowledge of software development standards test and and production environments, testing models, error tracking, development and application life cycles.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience implementing and supporting data collection systems
• Shop Floor Data Collection systems (flexi or equivalent)
• Java
• Oracle Cloud (SCM) or similar ERP systems
• Mobile dev kits
• Web Services
• System admin (server) support
• Handheld device troubleshooting and support (iOS, Android)

Industry Experience: Preference for food processing organization.

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or 4 years or more business experience using and developing software applications and developing technical applications.

Preferred Education: Depends on IT business focus.