Sr Applications Development Specialist (Remote)

Company: IQVIA
Location: Richmond
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

The Sr. Applications Development Specialist modifies applications programs from detailed specifications. Codes, tests, debugs, documents, and maintains those programs.
Essential Functions

• Conducts and coordinates the analysis, design and implementation of computer based information systems to meet user requirements.
• Plans and directs preliminary studies of potential applications and prepares design proposals to reflect costs, time and alternative actions to satisfy existing and future needs.
• Participates in systems software development and maintenance as required.
• Conducts detailed analyses of defined systems specifications, develops all levels of block diagrams and flow charts.
• Assists in the preparation of costs analyses and justifications of data processing systems.
• Develops conversion and system implementation plans.
• Conducts a full range of programming tasks including program design, program coding, debugging, and documentation for a variety of general applications programs including data manipulation, input and output routines.
• Programs logical interfaces and applies techniques for efficient program logic and data manipulation.
• Develops operator and control instructions. Maintains and updates existing programs of a non-routine nature.
• Conducts systems programming and support activities such as new or revised segments of language codes or processing.
• May identify and implement root cause fixes to program, system and/or applications errors.
• Monitors effective hardware utilization, reviews system logic for optimum throughput.
• Work frequently includes program maintenance error detection & correction of existing codes and/or revisions to systems documentation.
  Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or related discipline, or knowledge acquired through equivalent experience Required
  • Five (5) years experience in systems analysis/application programming Required
  • As an alternative to the experience requirements listed above, possesses a minimum of two to five (2-5) years of related experience in Information Technology with a specific Technology Experience Ratio of 50-75% or higher (years of experience in the specific technology --- years the technology has existed). Required
  • Demonstrated basic and some specialized systems and programming knowledge
  • Exp. with Spark, Scala, Hadoop, Impala, SQL a plus

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