What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Developer - Oil, Gas, & Chemical (KC) position at Burns & McDonnell?
Description
The Senior Developer will lead the design and implementation of backend systems, APIs, and data-processing workloads across enterprise platforms. The role includes evaluating potential solutions and informing buildvsbuy recommendations, while ensuring robust code, interfaces, and test execution. This position emphasizes Azure and Databricks for scalable data and compute, while also delivering full-stack solutions with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and modern web apps using React. Crosscloud awareness for GCP (including Vertex AI) is expected. The Senior Developer will manage program code, developer squads, and develop application interfaces and conversions and assist with executing system test plans.
Key Responsibilities
Backend Development & Architecture
EEO/Disabled/Veterans
Job Web Development
Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: No
Req ID: 260623
Job Hire Type Experienced #OGC
The Senior Developer will lead the design and implementation of backend systems, APIs, and data-processing workloads across enterprise platforms. The role includes evaluating potential solutions and informing buildvsbuy recommendations, while ensuring robust code, interfaces, and test execution. This position emphasizes Azure and Databricks for scalable data and compute, while also delivering full-stack solutions with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and modern web apps using React. Crosscloud awareness for GCP (including Vertex AI) is expected. The Senior Developer will manage program code, developer squads, and develop application interfaces and conversions and assist with executing system test plans.
Key Responsibilities
Backend Development & Architecture
- Lead backend services and APIs, microservices, and event-driven components for scalable, secure systems.
- Serve as the development counterpart to the Solutions Architect, influencing design decisions and ensuring engineering practices support the intended architecture.
- Design and implement efficient, testable code using Python, Scala, Java, and/or C#.
- Own source control in GitHub and enforce quality via code reviews.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and lead debugging and performance tuning.
- Oversee troubleshooting and upgrades for existing software assets.
- Build and optimize data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, and Azure API Management.
- Apply architecture and operational practices to enhance security, reliability, and customer experience.
- Design interoperable patterns leveraging GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and GKE/Cloud Run.
- Develop backend services and pipelines for model training, inference, and deployment.
- Use Databricks MLflow and Azure Machine Learning for model lifecycle management.
- Integrate generative AI/LLMs and embeddings into backend applications.
- Utilize GCP Vertex AI for pipelines, model registry, prediction, and vector search.
- Ensure Responsible AI governance and observability.
- Build SPFx solutions with TypeScript/React, integrating with Microsoft 365 and enterprise APIs.
- Develop React web applications (SPA/MPA) that consume secure backend services, enforce RBAC, and meet performance budgets.
- Integrate SPFx/React with Azure Functions, API Management, Azure AD, Microsoft Graph, and internal services.
- Implement OAuth2/OIDC patterns; secure secrets/keys via Azure Key Vault.
- Instrument apps with logging/telemetry; ensure accessibility, localization, and responsive UX.
- Partner with product, data engineering, QA, and SRE to translate requirements into technical designs.
- Drive delivery using Jira with clear acceptance criteria.
- Lead code/design reviews and mentor developers.
- Maintain system and API documentation, diagrams, and runbooks.
- Enforce QA/QC processes and comply with company policies.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to less experienced staff.
- Responsible for QA/QC process adherence.
- Responsible for compliance with company and site safety policies.
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Comply with all policies and standards
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering or related field and 8 years Required
- Expert knowledge in programming languages and coding principles and procedures.
- Expert in web development framework.
- Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building, collaboration, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work methodically and analytically in a quantitative problem-solving environment.
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills.
- Expert in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PPT).
- Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building and collaboration.
- Ability to obtain certain applicable certifications.
EEO/Disabled/Veterans
Job Web Development
Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: No
Req ID: 260623
Job Hire Type Experienced #OGC