Senior Professional Application Designer

Sr. Professional Application Designer

Remote

Description:

Diversified Systems is searching for a Senior Professional Application Designer who designs, develops, installs, tests and documents complex applications software, including server, client, and web components. Contributes to the design and delivery of technical architecture solution components. Provides work guidance to less experienced personnel. May provide technical consulting on complex projects.

Responsibilities:

• Provides more complex design documents and translates into component-level designs to accelerate development.
• Assists in developing strategy, design and data gathering approaches.
• Provides high level design expertise in support of development team efforts to provide flexible reusable components to increase cost effectiveness.
• Analyzes, designs and reviews design of applications and suites of applications to ensure that customer specifications are satisfied.
• Assists in overseeing relationships between application architects and development teams to ensure that product development and implementation are coordinated.
• Works with product development teams and senior designers in developing design requirements that are accurate and relevant to company needs.
• Recommends alternative courses of action as appropriate to meet requirement needs.
• Reviews and analyzes gathered information in technical research; evaluates tools and methodologies to ensure that designs adhere to current industry, client and company standards.
• Develops and provides technical documentation, participates and oversees test-plan development, integration and deployment.
• Assists in overseeing business process work sessions, project meetings and joint applications development sessions to ensure that product design decisions are communicated to departmental personnel.
• Functions as a domain expert and works closely with software developers to explain the application design, and coordinates activities between the two functions to enhance product quality and efficiency.
• Participates in cost analysis studies to determine feasibility of approaches.
• Utilizes experience in development methodologies, coding documentation, testing methodology and industry standards to define and develop project requirements, functional specifications and detailed design of application solutions for clients.
• Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.
• Guides the work of less experienced developers to create, maintain and communicate details of application designs to ensure that designs are according to specifications.
• May provides technical consulting on complex projects. Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time and form of desired results.
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Bachelor's degree in business, software engineering, computer science or related field preferred.
• 6 years of product design and support experience.
• Experience working with software design, software development life cycle, and development methodologies and implementation.
• Experience working with product systems design principles.
• Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware and software.
• Experience working with company application development policies and procedures.
• Experience working with company software and hardware products and related business issues that may impact overall business plans.
• 5 years of experience with full stack software development on web and client/server application solutions.
• 5 years of experience with Object Oriented concepts and patterns.
• 5 years of experience with Java, SQL, Java Server Faces (JSF), and Hibernate.
• 5 years of experience developing web applications using Java Enterprise Edition (JEE), XML or Web Services at an enterprise level.
• Experience with Spring Framework, Linux, SOAP Web Services and Weblogic.
• Experience with SoapUI and related testing tools.
• Working knowledge of application servers.
• Experience with MyEclipse or other IDE.
• Experience with Git or other versioning software.
• Experience creating, maintaining, and updating technical documentation, for example design and testing documents.
• Experience working in a team environment, supporting a client.
• Experience developing and executing regression testing strategies.
• Experience mentoring less experienced team members.
• Good analytical, problem solving, creative thinking and design skills applicable to multiple products.
• Good communication skills to communicate with application developers, customers, support personnel and management.
• Mentoring and training skills to guide and direct work of less experienced specialists.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and switch between tasks quickly.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  
  

About Diversified Systems

Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.

Diversified Systems is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DSI values authenticity and is committed to making sure our employees and partners are valued and respected. At DSI, we believe building a diverse culture is important because we know when people work together, we can achieve better results as a team. DSI realizes that everyone comes from various backgrounds. We celebrate these differences because our employees are our greatest asset as we strive to best meet the needs of those we serve. As part of our ongoing efforts, DSI is focused on advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion by setting high standards to continually evolve our culture. This includes but is not limited to recruiting, community involvement, client delivery, and career development.