With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
All CVs should be submitted in English.
This position is open to candidates based in countries where World Vision International is legally registered to operate.
Individuals working in an Application Developer III role work on multiple projects that may span a broad range of applications as a project team member, sometimes as a project lead. Individuals working as a Sr. Application Developer require expertise in multiple technical environments and business knowledge that spans one or more business areas.
Individuals must be able to adjust to constant business change and as needed to proactively plan for changes that are likely to occur. Common types of changes include introduction of new organizations through mergers and acquisitions, the separation of parts of organization (as subsidiaries, or when the business changes direction), evolving goals and strategies and emerging technologies. These changes require integration of solutions that can impact the overall system development activity. Application Developers also provide client support, consultation and subject matter expertise for system development, maintenance and support.
Individuals within the Application Development job family work closely with clients, business analysts and team members to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. These solutions must be aligned with business and IT strategies and are in compliance with the organization’s architectural standards. Application Developers are involved in the full systems life cycle and therefore are responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing and supporting application software that is delivered on time and within budget. Responsibilities beyond development of software may include participation in component and data architecture design, technology planning, product evaluation, advanced testing processes and buy vs. build recommendations. Individuals also provide input to project plans related to the Application Development initiative.
Application Developers have a strong knowledge of programming languages used by the organization. They have experience in systems design and have a solid understanding of development, database development, testing, and integration methodologies. Knowledge of current and emerging IT products, services and processes is required.
KEY RESPONSIBILITES:
PROJECT PLANNING:
Participates in all project planning processes.
May develop work plan timelines and manage work flows to meet project timeframes.
APPLICATION PORTFOLIO MGT:
Works with Applications Team Lead and ‘operations team’ and architects to ensure the practical, smooth, effective application retirement which may include any data migration, planning of application de-coupling, and staging and phasing of work to ensure smooth, risk-free application retirement.
DATA REQUIREMENTS:
Identifies better sources of data feeds and interfaces with architects to ensure their feasibility with corporate data warehouse, when needed.
Actively participates in planning sessions with Architecture team to define, plan, analyze, implement and operationalize enterprise data model.
DESIGN:
Identifies technical requirements.
Creates technical design specifications and assists and reviews technical design specifications developed by junior levels.
Act as technical design lead in specific projects.
Strong backend engineering background.
Distributed systems, APIs, relational databases and enterprise integration.
Experience designing workflow-heavy or transaction-heavy…