Senior Informatics Specialist at Palladium International

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Expertise:

• Participate in development life cycle activities such as design, coding, testing, and production release, delivering high-quality code in an agile team environment
• Advocate for the adoption of new technologies, enforce best development patterns and practices, with a specific focus on applications integration and API development
• Provide technical guidance for designing and developing digital solutions with a strong emphasis on applications integration best practices
• Develop best practices for digital solutions, maintenance, reporting and security
• Develop and execute manual and automated tests to validate software functionality, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate with other developers to ensure that software products are built with testability in mind
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Adhere to high-quality less rework development principles while delivering on time and on scope
• Responsible for maintaining UpToDate repositories of the assigned systems
• Leverage knowledge and contribute to proper knowledge management within the team
• Keep abreast with emerging technologies in software engineering
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Business Development

•  Contribute to active proposals through contributions to strategy and preparation of technical approach and capability statements

Key Competencies Required:

•  Experience developing scalable and secure web and mobile applications with a strong focus on applications integration and API development
• Experience designing and optimizing database schemas
• Well documented relevant experience in multiple roles in the Information systems domain (application development, data engineering, Data Warehousing, ETL etc.)
• A firm understanding and practical experience in tools and processes to ensure software quality, such as Unit Tests, TDD and Test Automation
• Excellent understanding and deployment of virtualization and containerization technologies, with a specific focus on facilitating applications integration
• Experience in designing solutions incorporating cloud components, including PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Understanding of DevOps pipeline impact on product management and user experience (UX)
• Experience in development and implementation of data analytics and visualization solutions
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Confluence

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Proficiency in programming languages, libraries, and frameworks such as C#, Java, Python, PHP, Android, React, Node.js, Angular, Vue, and others commonly used for web and mobile applications, APIs, and microservices
• Proven ability to architect and develop solutions for complex applications integration scenarios, ensuring efficient data flow and interoperability
• Experience with Selenium, WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, or other automated testing tools and frameworks
• Should have strong knowledge and experience in CI/CD tools like ANT, Maven and Jenkins