Sr. Programmer Analyst - PL/SQL

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The Sr. Programmer Analyst - Merchandising Systems will be responsible for the analysis, design, development, maintenance and support of software applications.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs the following activities: requirements definition, design, development, testing and implementation.
• Gains necessary input/approval of requirements and design and participates in code reviews.
• Ensures applications meet requirements and is error free.
• Develops technical system documentation.
• Ensures that applications meet the architectural standards.
• Works on periodic maintenance releases of applications, including enhancements and defects.
• Looks for ways to enhance design of application for better maintainability and software reuse.
• Looks for ways to incrementally improve the architecture of legacy systems.
• Manages workload to deliver quality deliverables that meet requirements and timelines.
• Communicates status of assignments to supervisor.
• Notifies supervisor of issues that impact productivity or ability to meet expectations.
• Assists Manager in tracking progress, prioritizing work, developing time estimates and work plans and assisting less experienced team members
• Resolves issues or escalates to Manager, if necessary.
• Checks work in to central repositories.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with PL/SQL and SQL is required in PL\SQL programming is required - procedures, packages, triggers, functions.
• E/R modeling.
• Experience with Oracle 10 and 11g environment preferred.
• Experience using JAVA a plus, but not required.
• Experience with Unix scripts, and report experience like Oracle Reports or UML would be a plus.
• Experience using Web Focus a plus.
• Excellent skills in writing, maintaining, testing and debugging code in applicable programming languages.
• Experience with Oracle relational databases.
• Ability to apply Object-Oriented analysis and design.
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems a plus.

Work Experience and/or Education

• Bachelor''s Degree or equivalent related experience.
• Minimum of three years of experience in Information Services.