Junior Accountant

Primary Accountabilities of the Role:

The person in this role will be developing software in the Innovation and Research team. The software development activity could be prototype code, researching an emerging technology, developing applications and microservices, testing harnesses, DevOps pipeline steps, and cloud development technology. The person in this role will be on an Agile Scrum team, and will participate in a daily scrum meeting, updating story tasks, and providing daily updates to the team.

Where the position fits in the organization

This position would be in the Innovation and Research team. The Innovation and Research team is within the LCS organization under the Business-Driven Innovation and Research Organization.

Additional responsibilities include:

Documenting design, testing, or story details for a proposed implementation of a software feature or service

Reporting out research findings to the broader team or organization

Implementing software ideas

Writing stories for software implementations

Writing test code for validating software implementations

Developing DevOps pipeline steps and/or DevOps tooling

Agile Scrum activities (daily scrum, updating stories and tasks, sprint reviews)

Research into a new software technology

Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices

Knowledge of Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google)

Strong time management skills and the ability to be self-directed

Experience with service-oriented architecture and web application/services development

Experience with Object Oriented modern JavaScript Frameworks (Angular JS, Ember JS, Dojo, etc.)

Experience with UI/UX design for complex workflows and/or for technical end users / domain experts

Experience building complex, scalable, high-performance software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Active on Github or StackOverflow

Comfortable with the Linux command line and Git

Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills

Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems

Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

Experience leading and mentoring junior software engineers, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Understanding of microservice development and best practices

Requirements

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science

3+ years professional experience in software development building production software systems

Solid Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and problem solving

Proficiency in a modern programming language, preferably in C#

Knowledge of Web based technologies or JavaScript frameworks

Ability to work well with a team in a fast paced, dynamic, agile development environment

Excellent written and verbal communication skills