Lead Software Engineer, Microsoft Dynamics CE
The Lead Software Engineer, Microsoft Dynamics CE uses their strong collaboration, communication, and development skills to enhance the current Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE solution for Sales. In addition, this role actively facilitates the team’s development life cycle and ensures effective DevOps procedures are in place (automated builds, deployments, performance testing, etc.).
What you’ll be doing:
· Develop solutions according to requirements and quality standards as well as deliver within defined timeframes with minimal rework
· Build D365 CE forms, screens, and views as well as workflows and reports
· Customize business logic with client-side scripting and plug-ins as appropriate
· Develop integrations between D365 CE and other enterprise systems
· Demonstrate core competency in programming fundamentals and best practices such as SOLID, Object-Oriented design principles, DRY, and Domain Driven Design
· Design, build and maintain high performing, reusable, and reliable code
· Participate in all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) including design, development, testing, documentation, and support.
· Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, project managers and vendors/consultants to develop solutions that meet specific business objectives
· Understand business requirements and designs with the ability to transform them into technical requirements, producing high quality solutions
· Identify, document and implement appropriate patterns and standards that increase developer productivity and code quality in the D365 CE platform
· Focus on design and code architecture and implementation
· Perform code reviews to enforce patterns and standards in our code base
· Lead POCs, design sessions, and pair programming efforts
· Present new technologies, ideas, and options to management clearly and concisely
· Effectively transform conceptual and theoretical discussions into implementable solutions
· Partner with Sales product owner to proactively review Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE releases for potential impact and/or benefit
· Partner with the infrastructure team to actively monitor data and environment usage from a cost perspective, and manage both the production and lower environments with respect to security audits and data refresh policies
· Mentor junior team members and provide leadership to consultants, and actively teach best practices and new technologies
· Assist with onboarding and training new team members
· Work directly with QA Analysts and Test Engineers to ensure proper tests are designed to meet acceptance criteria to produce high quality products
· Be available as needed to lead or support production deployments
· Support, troubleshoot and resolve production issues, including direct interactions with internal customers as needed
· Be a strong problem solver and possess an excellent work ethic and attitude
· Collaborate, share, and learn from team members, and actively follow all team processes
· Function as an excellent team player that can make significant contributions individually as well as a part of the team
· Demonstrate willingness to work on your craft and take initiative in learning new skills
· Effectively communicate both orally and in writing as well as manage multiple assignments and priorities
· Possess strong organizational and process analysis skills
· Participate in interviews upon request
· Other duties as assigned
What we’re looking for:
· Experience with Visual Studio, GIT and Azure DevOps
· 10+ years of application development experience across the following technologies:
o Dynamics 365 CRM/CE product family
o .NET Framework/Core, C#
o JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, XML
o Web API/REST
Bonus Points:
· Working knowledge or experience with any of the following technologies:
o Agile Methodology
o SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI
o Azure Functions
o JSON
o KingswaySoft SSIS Productivity Pack
Education:
· Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related degree is preferred.
Travel:
· 5%
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