What are the responsibilities and job description for the Jr Applications Developer position at UPL NA Inc.?
Advanta is a global seed business adapting to rapidly increasing food insecurity and climate change by providing farmers with innovation and new technologies. As part of UPL Group, Advanta aims to deliver high quality seeds with excellent agronomic practices and crop protection solutions. Advanta operates in over 80 countries under global brands of Advanta, Alta and Pacific Seeds. Advanta holds a leadership position in tropical and sub-tropical geographies in corn, grain and forage sorghum, sunflower, canola, rice, and a variety of vegetables. With over 60 years' experience in plant genetics, Advanta provides seeds technology that ensures crop performance and farmers prosperity.
Primary Responsibility: To design, build and maintain applications for data management, analytics, and visualization of breeding, genetic/molecular and phenomics data to support the Global R&D requirements of Advanta. This position will also support the development of a multi-layer APIs-based system to connect database and applications in backend and frontend.
Major Job Responsibilities:
- Evaluate business needs and objective from Plant Science and Data Science viewpoints, in relation to the development of applications for breeding programs.
- Analyze and understand the pipeline of current data processing/applications in Advanta
- Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of proprietary applications in Advanta
- Collaborate with the research users (such as breeders, phenomics/molecular scientists, statisticians) and IT to adopt APIs based applications
- Build APIs-based applications in Cloud system
- Prepare user’s manual and train users in the use of applications
- Maintain and provide support on proprietary applications
- Perform additional duties as required.
Job Skills & Requirements:
- Previous experience as a software engineer or developer, or alternately in a similar role
- Knowledge of programming language (preference in R/Python)
- Knowledge of web-based programming language (Java/PHP/HTML, etc.)
- Good communication skills, both written and oral
- Ability to identify and satisfy the needs of internal customers and continuously search for ways to provide value-added solutions.
- Excellent team player with the ability to work within an international breeding team and to clearly communicate computational concepts.
- A strong interest in learning more about Plant Science, particularly genetics and breeding.
- Proficiency in solving complex problems with creative and effective solutions.
Educational Background: Masters/PhD degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, IT or experience in similar field.
We are one team, for maximum impact. One team with shared goals. We all play for the team and no one plays against the team. We have a laser-like focus on what our customers need and want, on anticipating their future needs and on how we can create innovative solutions and experiences for them.
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Salary : $92,000 - $117,000