Senior Applications Engineer# 012563

Kamehameha Schools has a Senior Applications Engineer position available at Kapālama Campus, O‘ahu. The deadline to apply: 5/22/2012.

Position available: 7/1/12.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or Engineering, or related field.

Minimum Requirements:

•At least 5 years in IT field, to include 4 years of applications design, development, implementation, and integration.

•High School Diploma/GED equivalent and 10 years of experience in applications development.

•Ability to gather and analyze complex business and programming requirements and to come up with application designs that fulfill those needs while preserving enterprise architecture, protecting KS data and information, and facilitating IT strategies and goals.

•Ability to analyze and code efficient applications using a variety of programming languages (C#, .Net, SQL, HTML, XML, Crystal Reports, etc.).

•Demonstrated ability analyzing and troubleshooting software systems and correcting logic and design flaws.

•Follow KS' testing methodology.

•Knowledge and management skills employing AGILE/RAD/Waterfall Systems Development Life Cycle.

•Experience working with extremely large database schemas.

•Expertise in designing, troubleshooting and debugging interfaces between system integrations.

•Occasional off hour and weekend operational and project support.

•Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and written, with technical and non-technical users, managers, vendors, and consultants.

•Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple assignments and priorities.

•Ability to manage technical project tasks, to facilitate project execution, to coordinate tasks across teams, and to resolve conflicts and problems.

•Ability to apply best practices to ensure proper application change management.

•Ability to manage software releases.

•Working knowledge and experience with innovative information technology systems and concepts.

•Ability and willingness to self-improve via active reading and learning.

•Excellent team player and the ability to work with on-site, near-site and off-shore teams.

•Ability to supervise and assist less experienced application engineers and/or developers.

Summary of Duties:

•Design application based on user requirements while observing enterprise architectural requirements, enterprise data standard, and enterprise data labeling and handling provisions.

•Design user interface based on user requirements while incorporating service oriented architecture to enable non-user interactivity.

•Design application integration based on user requirements and system needs while following enterprise integration strategies and standards.

•Design application security based on user requirements and information security office guidelines.

•Perform programming task based on design specifications.

•Supervise coding effort, conduct code review and critique.

•Perform application (vendor-based) patch management.

•Provide Level 3 production support (development level issues).

•Conduct research and diagnosis on problems.

•Resolve application support issues.

•Perform software installation and configuration.

•Supervise testing, conduct testing review and critique.

•Support IT operational staging alongside IT Operations.

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested applicants must apply online. Visit our website at http://www.ksbe.edu/careers & search Requisition Number 012563 for full job description, & to apply for this position. *Sorry, no resumes accepted via email, mail or fax.