Hybrid Senior IT Software Development Specialist

at Sedgwick

• Job title: Senior IT Software Development Specialist
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Jenkins, Linux, Oracle, Perl, Shell Scripting, Subversion, TFS, Unix, VMware, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Memphis, United States

About the role

• Software Development Specialist providing SCM support and managing software releases at Sedgwick. Collaborating with teams to ensure functionality and resolve operational issues.

Responsibilities

• To provide software configuration management (SCM) support at the program level;
• To manage parallel software development and release cycles ensuring functionality and provide SCM for large, distributed development network with remote partners;
• To work with other teams to resolve operational matters.
• Ensures functionality of source code or packages (Progress, .NET or Oracle) in the release environment.
• Builds, maintains, and addresses issues with Progress, Corticon, and SurveyMonkey releases.
• Contributes to establishing, maintaining and enhancing the configuration management environment to enable parallel software development for multiple teams.
• Assists with providing up-to-the-minute status information by closely monitoring and becoming familiar with designated application lines through source code control.
• Coordinates and performs application releases into production; prepares process and standards documentation.
• Works closely with development and quality assurance (QA) teams to help ensure that correct versions of the source code base have been compiled correctly into the appropriate testing environments.
• Works closely with the infrastructure team to coordinate networking changes, port opening requirements, and all other internal modifications that are needed for various environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering or computer information systems from an accredited college or university preferred.
• Six (6) years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required including three (3) years of experience in SCM and release management is required.
• Proven experience understanding and driving the software development process required.
• Knowledge of software configuration management (SCM) tools (i.e. Subversion, CVS, GIT, TFS), MSBuild, ant/make build scripts, and build management tools (i.e. Jenkins, Azure Devops/TFS)
• Knowledge of administration of Windows, UNIX and/or LINUX operating systems
• Knowledge of development and scripting (i.e. .Net, Perl, shell scripting, PowerShell) and Makefiles
• Knowledge of VMWare
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• PC literate, including Microsoft Office products
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies

Benefits

• Career development and promotional growth opportunities.
• A diverse and comprehensive benefits offering including medical, dental vision, 401k, PTO and more.