Senior Custom Application Development Consultant

Company: KiZan Technologies LLC
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: September 17, 2020

Job Description:

We are looking for the next Rock Star! Below is a list of KiZAN’s current openings. If you do not see an opening that fits your skill set, but you feel your experience, values, and passions align with our purpose, please submit your resume at the bottom of the page for future consideration. KiZAN provides equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, national origin, physical or mental disability status, pregnancy, genetic information, including family medical history, protected military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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If you are a qualified individual with a disability or if you are a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our on-line web-based application process as a result of your disability. To request a reasonable accommodation of our online application process, please contact our Human Resources department at: christine.hyde@kizan.com Please note, only requests for reasonable accommodation for the on-line application process will receive a response.

Position: Senior Custom Application Development Consultant

Location: Atlanta, GA

Job Id: 753

# of Openings: 1

Senior Custom Application Development Consultant

Location: Atlanta, GA

Employment Type: Full-Time

**Remote applicants will be considered if they are accessible to our customers.

About KiZAN

KiZAN Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Partner for twenty-seven years, is always on the lookout for the best and brightest talent. As a gold-certified and managed Microsoft partner, KiZAN allows business leaders to focus on the vision, not the technology. We provide strategic planning, application, and infrastructure services for Healthcare, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Retail, Professional Services, helping companies identify and solve business problems and take advantage of opportunities using innovative technologies, demonstrated consulting expertise and proven project management. Our clients range from mid-sized organizations to enterprise corporations, and they represent a variety of industries. Combining world-class products with our commitment to excellence has enabled us to be the local and regional technology solution provider of choice.

As a company, we exist to enable everyone to follow their passion. We succeed by attracting, developing, empowering, and promoting quality people; we embrace, kaizen, and evangelize processes; and place high value on continuous learning, creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit. As a team, we strive to create Raving Fans with our clients, as well as our employees. KiZAN provides a family culture, has received the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Workplace Flexibility multiple years, and encourages a fun environment by providing "just because" events for our family to get together outside of the workplace.

KiZAN Technologies has an immediate need for an exceptional individual to join our family as a Senior Custom Application Development Consultant. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, is a true team player with a commitment to success, has leadership skills, and will be able to thrive in a fast paced, rapidly-changing environment.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Application Development Consultant, you will be responsible for architectural vision and execution on projects, consulting with clients on application architecture, refining team processes, and implementation and leadership of software projects. The ideal candidate would also be familiar with continuous integration and continuous deployment, and enjoy consulting with clients on these practices.

You'll need to be open to new ideas, including technology and architectural foundations, but our culture doesn't jump to the next great framework just because it's shiny and new. Our primary platforms of choice are C#, ASP.NET MVC, and SQL Server, but we're open to other UI frameworks and data storage engines if they fit the problem and are widely used.

We are a social company, and consider co-workers part of our family. As a team, we are social developers. We value collaboration, recognition of or personal weaknesses in order to grow, kicking back to have some fun, and digging into challenging technical problems. We believe in architectural planning, but not to a point of paralysis: planning the design of a solution is important, but creating working software that helps to solve a business problem is most important to our team and our customers.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Manage the successful completion of project initiatives on-time and within budget; completing project plans and maintaining project schedules and/or works with a Project Manager to do so

Provide project team leadership and assist in structuring standards, best practices and procedures for delivering the solution successfully

Contributes technically to solutions and assists in providing technical direction and senior-level envisioning for solutions

Manages quality assurance by reviewing team's work and providing feedback in a positive and constructive manner

Assesses customer needs and determines appropriate resources

Regularly updates key client contacts as to status of project, handles serious customer concerns, involves Principal Consultant for critical issues

As the client's trusted advisor, identify and pursue additional opportunities to provide value

Writes detailed project plans, helps define items in the work breakdown structure of the SOW

Provide pre-sales technical support, including client meetings, project discovery, and completing technical aspects of the proposal/statement of work

Ability to understand customers' business and the impacts of technology on the business. Conducts assessments from a business perspective

Transfer knowledge to customers as part of the delivery of services and through classroom instruction

Prioritize tasks to meet deadlines

Expected to assist the Practice Lead in overall leadership of the assigned practice area

Works with Principal Consultant to provide adequate opportunity for on-going skills training for members of Project Team(s)

Mentor less experienced consultants and/or students/interns

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of experience/knowledge

8+ years of experience in .NET and object oriented programming

2-3 years of experience in Team Leadership

Experience with Agile process

Experience with .NET Core, .NET Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, and IIS

Firm understanding of source control practices including branching, merging, and pull requests

Firm understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment practices

Experience and comfort with business analysis, requirements definition & vetting

Experience with classic ASP and VB 6.0 a plus

Entity Framework, NHibernate, or other ORMs

Knowledge and prior use of Dependency Injection

Familiarity of S.O.L.I.D. and D.R.Y. principles

Ability to travel, overnight up to 25%, including air travel

Ability to travel independently to client sites; if by car, a valid driver’s license or reliable method of transportation is required

Authorization to work in the US without sponsorship

Skills and Abilities Utilize expert troubleshooting and debugging skills

Ability to work independently/self-reliant and show initiative with minimum supervision

Ability to quickly learn new technology and apply to appropriate business situations

Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities

A true team player with commitment to success

Ability to work under pressure and meet strict time deadlines

Ability to listen effectively and seek clarification

Ability to thrive in a fast paced, rapidly-changing environment.

Strong written and verbal communication skills with strong English language grammar skills

Working knowledge of Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Speaks clearly and persuasively in both negative and positive situations

Responds well to questions

Ability to present complex data effectively

React well under pressure

Accept responsibility for own actions

Approach others in a tactful manner

Follow through on commitments

Contribute to building a positive team spirit

Exhibit objectivity and openness to others’ views

Provide and welcome feedback

Put success of team above own interests

Treat others with respect and consideration regardless of status

Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills

Preferred Experience, Skills and Abilities Prior experience in a professional services environment strongly preferred

2 or more Microsoft certifications

Experience in designing and implementing cloud or hybrid-cloud application architectures

Practical Experience in developing and managing product release pipelines using Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, or other automation tools

Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design, Event-driven architectures, and Command Query Responsibility Segregation

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