Senior Business Applications Engineer
The Senior Business Applications Engineer is responsible for delivering IT business applications and solutions to enhance critical business operations, provide the Firm with differentiating capabilities, and enable lawyer and staff effectiveness.
This position takes a lead role in the full system lifecycle of business applications, including participation in requirements gathering sessions, design, development, testing, deployment, support, maintenance, and possibly retirement or replacement. The Senior Engineer directly supports the Business Applications Portfolio Manager, serving as a mentor to junior engineering staff.
The company is located in Washington D.C. and will be a hybrid model (2-3 days onsite).
What You Will Be Doing: - Supports the Business Applications Portfolio Manager to deliver the full lifecycle of the Firm's business application solutions that enable practice and support functional objectives, ranging from strategic planning through into operational support and maintenance.
- Participates in strategic road mapping for the Firm's business applications portfolio of solutions and services, maintaining close partnership with the Firm's functional leaders, IT leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Leads the translation of business requirements into system design plans, incorporating system specifications, application architecture, data import / export functions, conversion issues, reports, and other functions.
- Defines, designs, codes / configures, tests, debugs, implements, and supports complex, object-oriented, multi-tier distributed software applications.
- Develops code and/or configuration in accordance with technical designs and to standards set by the Business Applications Portfolio Manager and architect leads.
- Provides technical leadership on business application projects.
- Supports mission-critical systems and IT business applications as assigned.
- Creates and maintains documentation for all aspects of software implementation, including timelines, system schematics and diagrams, business recovery procedures, and user documentation.
Required Skills & Experience: - Demonstrated experience with programming or scripting (e.g., Visual Basic, C , .NET, Windows PowerShell, T-SQL).
- Experience with integration services and solutions (e.g., SSIS, stored procedures, ETL technologies like Integration Builder).
- Demonstrated experience maintaining and supporting commercial off the shelf applications, along with the integrations that enable data exchange among them.
- Demonstrated experience managing common operating systems and database management solutions (e.g., Windows 2019 Server, SQL Server).
- Demonstrated experience in the design and architecture of critical business systems (e.g., Financial Accounting, Time & Expense Entry, Customer Relationship Management, Human Capital Management).
- Demonstrated experience with common operating systems and database management solutions (e.g., Windows 2019 Server, SQL Server).
- Experience with application toolsets and protocols (e.g., SSMS, RDP, PUTTY, SFTP, IIS).
- Familiarity with service desk systems to manage and resolved incidents (e.g., ServiceNow).
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.
This position doesn't provide sponsorship.