Senior Specialist, Software Engineering - Consultant

Winrock International (Winrock) is a non-profit organization that works around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Winrock strengthens the capacity of women, children, youth, civil society organizations, and businesses to actively participate in sustainable development and to positively impact society.

The Senior Specialist, Software Engineering Consultant is responsible to provide application development expertise at the direction of the Technical Lead and working together with the Project Manager, Business Analyst and the development team. The Consultant will perform the full range of development activities including planning, design and implementation, enhancements, testing, release deployment, documentation, and hand over to in-house team for ongoing support. This work is intended to develop in-house supported applications related to different business areas like Operations, Finance, People & Culture, IT, etc. 

Responsibilities  

·        Performs planning of GEMS 2 by providing technical analysis, tasks breakdown and solution estimations of the business requirements& specification for well-defined and achievable activity plan.

·        Performs development of GEMS 2 scripts, applications, software modules or interfaces to third party solutions by following the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices and standards - planning, design, testing, release deployment, bug fixes tracking and resolution, documentation development, etc.

·        Performs enhancements of GEMS 2 by developing application/database code, scripts, modules, and other improvements requested by the Project Manager and Technical Lead or recommend changes that will allow application optimization.

·        Escalates to the Technical Lead and the Director of Corporate ICT issues related to project scope, functionality, deliverables, time estimates, technical needs.

Skills 

Communication Skills 

Must have a strong command of English language, both in oral and written communications and must be able to convey and articulate opinions, cascade accurate information and technical work requirements in a manner that can be understood by all types of internal clients. 

 Analytical Skill  

Must have a strong problem-solving skill to get to get the root cause of issues and resolve them and must have solid organization skills with the ability to analyze data. 

 Self-learning and Self-Upskilling Attitude 

Be able to upskill oneself to the needed technology to deliver value to the organization need and provide up-to date solution in technology. 

Problem Sensitivity Aptitude 

Must have the ability to identify potential problems or setbacks, evaluate the situation and provide probable solution. 

Information Ordering Skill 

Must have the ability to organize thoughts critically and methodically when faced in unfamiliar problems, uncertainties, questions or dilemmas. 

Education/Training/ Certification 

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field Microsoft certification in relation to web development is a plus Any financial classes or degree is a plus 

Experience 

5+ years of proven experience in .NET web development including C#.NET; ASP.NET; ASP.NET MVC; HTML; CSS; XML; Javascript; jQuery, AJAX. 5+ years of proven experience with relational databases using MS SQL Server with creation and optimization of complex SQL database and scripts. 5+ years of experience with interface design; using Bootstrap, jQuery, CSS/HTML. 5+ year of experience using Visual Studio IDE 2015,2017, and 2019. Proven experience with MS Azure platform knowledge and expertise for Web Apps. 5+ years’ experience in MS Azure via IaaS, or PaaS development and deploying to production. 5+ years of experience with SSO implementation using MS Active Directory and/or Azure AD. 3+ experience creating and modifying PowerShell scripts for On-Prem and/or Azure. Proven experience with SSIS Development and Deployment. Proven experience with cross browser troubleshooting and resolution expertise Previous expertise in database Concurrency, Encryption, and Auditing. Knowledge of Agile software development life cycle. Experience in QA and QA automation. Must be able to write thorough and concise functional and design specification. Proven experience in providing technical assistance during requirements gathering  Ask question and provide alternate solution based on the functional requirements. Provides an algorithm to base on the requirements. Expert in developing technical documentation. Expert in development of standard operating procedures. Excellent analytical skills for troubleshooting and issue investigations. Additional experience and a willingness to learn other web development environments. Customer service skills for tier 2 and 3 support/ troubleshooting. Able to transfer knowledge and skillset to team members and users. A positive and resilient mindset. Deliver result in a systemic and fast phased approach making sure that requirements are met. Excellent communicate written and oral in English. Present system to small group of audience. 

Desired: 

SSAS Development and Deployment. Experience in deployment automation (CI and/or CD) via Azure Dev Ops Pipeline. Other: .Net Experience. 

Terms: 

the engagement is estimated to last between 6-8 monthsExpected meetings with the business, project and technical team during the mid shift hours (between 4 pm and 1 am Manila time)Expected occasional on-site meetings at Winrock Regional Office in the Pasig city area.