Overview: 

The Development and Support Services (DSS) team within Blue Yonder operates globally with over 150 team members in the US, India, UK, Belgium, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands.  We are seeking a development architect with a strong technical foundation to design and develop fit-for-purpose extensions or reusable artifacts for our customers that provide increased value beyond our base product solutions.  

Scope: 

• Core responsibilities include collaborating with customers on functional requirements desired, developing new technical solutions that alter existing product behavior to meet the customer’s value needs, testing to validate that new and existing functional use cases work as desired, and documenting the solution throughout the development life cycle. 

• Development methodologies may differ based on the scope of the projects; however, all rely on collaborative communication.  This includes interaction with internal team members to coordinate development activities with one to many developers, contribute to development execution plans, and report on development status as well as discuss with the customer directly for clarifications of needs, value expected, or obtaining feedback via development demonstrations. 

• This position will be focused on working with our teams involved in development for the Blue Yonder Warehouse Management product suite. 

What you’ll do: (Responsibilities) 

• Perform development activities such as coding, testing, and documenting user and technical information for the features or tools being developed 

• Lead development on features contributing to wider project scope ensuring all developers involved understand the development designs, dependencies, and interaction with the users and other product functionality 

• Review reported issues from customers and guide to resolution (data, configuration, necessary code fix) 

• Lead discussions for development solution reviews with customers or internal teams to discuss specifications and/ or demonstrate software developed 

• Ensure development meets the requirements and use cases defined with high quality and on-time 

• Create, execute, and review test plans to verify software quality while documenting results. 

• Provide status updates and work with the internal development team to identify and mitigate impediments to meet the development delivery plans. 

• Keep all applicable systems and documentation updated per standards on a consistent basis (time entry, JIRA updates, code repositories, feature documentation, etc.) 

• Mentor team members on development processes and functional-technical questions throughout development lifecycle.  Ensure coding best practices are followed through coding reviews. 

• Assess requirements for risk and quote estimation. 

• Assist with occasional critical customer needs such as remote on-call go-live support rotations or on-site go-live presence. 

What we are looking for: (Qualifications) 

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Equivalent 

• 3-5 years experience with development in enterprise warehouse management applications – Blue Yonder WMS experience preferred 

• Knowledge of system to system integrations through various forms of communication 

• Excellent understanding of development best practices 

• Required Tool / Language Knowledge and Experience 

• Source Code Control (SVN, GIT, or equivalent) 

• Relational database experience with Oracle PL/SQL, and SQL Server  

• Java 

• Desirable and Beneficial Experience 

• MOCA (Blue Yonder’s proprietary scripting language) 

• JavaScript 

• Restful Web Service APIs 

• JSON 

• JIRA or other development tracking tool experience 

• Automated testing tool experience