senior application developer, Starbucks Technology - Seattle, WA Starbucks
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Job Summary and Mission

Finance Technology Team seeks a Senior Application Developer to help drive our Financials space forward in our Oracle E-Business Suite and reporting platform. Given Starbucks' multifaceted growth and complex distribution network, this position will be exposed to intricate, evolving models and scaling challenges, necessitating a deep understanding of the EBS technology stack and the financials modules. In addition to the E-Business Suite domain, the enterprise is embarking on a journey into cloud services, and experience and understanding of java EE and web services is important. This role is a software development role with leadership components.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

Technical Design and Implementation

* Collaborates in planning, decomposing, estimating, scheduling, prioritization and resource allocation exercises. Mitigates risk with prototypes for complex problems as appropriate. Build incrementally, with an eye toward vision of the final product. Provides transparency in approach and progress, throughout the process.


* Participates in the solution design process: requirements gathering and backlog refinement, shapes and guides systems approach, helps with project initiation, contributes to functional design, and leads technical design and development.


* Develops software solutions to business problems. Leverages established design patterns and coding standards. Builds solutions that are secure, durable, scalable, flexible, and accessible and proactively mitigate against production support issues.


* Automates test coverage per platform capabilities and requirements. Establishes and maintains continuous build and integration testing on applicable platforms and assists with manual system and integration testing efforts.


* Key contributor and driver in the deployment approach, including planning and execution, data conversion approach, script development and execution, warranty period and transition of the solution to the platform's operational context.


* Operates in both waterfall and Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes and methodologies.



Platform Stewardship

* Proactively participates in helping shape candidate solutions on the platform. This consultative part of the role explores the business capability portfolio to guide and direct solution options to ensure health of the platform.


* Plays a creative role in the Platform Stewardship portfolio. Contributes to the vision, roadmap, and platform investments needed to take our business solutions to the next level. Identifies, influences, sells and prioritizes innovative platform opportunities, as well as technical debt, with regular reviews, creating programs and solutions to raise the level of the platform offering or remediate systemic operational problems.


* Partners with cross functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, QA and key Development teams, to strengthen and elevate the platform from a technology perspective. Successfully drives designs and solutions through enterprise processes and governance to ensure compliant, secure and supportable solutions.


* Deepens vendor relationships to understand and influence vendor product offerings and roadmaps, improves support engagement and gains insight into technology trends.


* Contributes to the platform development community by providing input, content and feedback on design patterns, coding standards, and shared libraries.



Leadership

* Provides project leadership; initiates, organizes and champions small to medium development efforts for a team of developers over a shared code base.


* Supervises delivery of other developers on the team by setting priority and guiding deliverables.


* Keeps projects on course by coordinating activities, monitoring project schedules and costs.


* Represents the Development Team when engaged with cross functional teams, including functional analysts, Project Management, Development, Architecture, Infrastructure and the business customer.


* Negotiates, facilitates, and influences others to gain alignment and mutually agreeable outcomes in complex and ambiguous situations. Socializes technical approach and design to project team and corresponding dependent teams.


* Takes on leadership opportunities within the development team. Initiates and facilitates team meetings to socialize technical ideas, encourages a culture of technical excellence among peers, and identifies good opportunities for adopting innovation.


* Coaches and mentors other application developers learning new skills and technologies.


* Exhibits leadership courage with respectful, articulate positions to influence critical technology solutions.



Business Capability Portfolio

* Consults in the IT planning process by providing application and platform expertise for new business capabilities under consideration.


* Tracks and communicates planned and in-flight business capability efforts, contributes and influences approach, scoping exercises and resource estimation.


* For a small to medium area of the business capability portfolio, rationalizes, designs and oversees solution changes in the sustainment process.



Production Support for application and platform components

* Fulfills responsibilities for on call support, including potential coverage of pager rotation.


* Collaboratively and effectively diagnoses, troubleshoots and remediates incidents and problems to support the end user community. Initiates and leads root cause analysis efforts to identify and implement solutions to operational issues.


* Creates, maintains and reports operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on items such as performance, service incidents and tickets set forth by the organization leadership. Identifies systemic problems that need holistic solutions and feedback into platform roadmap exercises.


* Creates and maintains documentation supporting training, system administration, deployment, and operational processes and procedures.



Basic Qualifications

* 7 years of Application Development experience, exposed to all phases of development - from design through production support.


* 5 years of Oracle E-Business Suite Application Development/Implementation experience, which include being the authoritative author for multiple key integrations and extensions.


* Strong working knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL best practices.


* 3 years of working with Java, preferably with services and distributed solutions. Experience with open source technologies and standards are a plus. This entails JEE-compliant solutions on Java application services, example technologies & standards include RESTful or SOAP web services, TomEE/Tomcat 7 , RESTEasy, MyBatis, Apache CXF, and Spring.


* 3 year of experience working in Oracle Financials modules, including PA, GL, FA, AR, AP, Pricing, and Tax modules. The Starbucks EBS implementation has extensive customizations and integrations with different applications hence the knowledge of ERP API's is valued.


* 1 year of Apache Nifi, Incorta or OBIEE experience is preferred, but not required.


* 1 year of Vertex Tax applications experience is preferred, but not required.


* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or MIS preferred, or equivalent work experience



Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Technical Proficiency

* Knowledge of data structures, algorithms and computer science concepts relative to the platform.


* Mastery of relevant development languages, tools, frameworks, utilities and technical dependencies.


* Understanding of implications from design and implementation choices toward building secure, scalable, durable, flexible, accessible solutions.


* Aptitude to pick up new technologies and trends, as they become relevant for the business and our platforms. Examples include IoT, Big Data, REST Services, mobile, and incorporating cloud components.


* Ability to write and value high quality, reusable software with minimal defects.


* Ability to learn and incorporate new technologies, concepts and development languages.


* Thorough understanding of data transport mechanisms and integrations including synchronous, asynchronous, bulk data, tightly and loosely coupled methods.


* Working understanding of application architecture, infrastructure and security concepts and technical implementation.


* Ability to analyze, diagnose and propose solutions to user problems.


* Ability to understand and escalate technical challenges with options and recommendations.



Domain Proficiency

* Thorough understanding of relevant platform and applications, including established API's, system activity components, process flows, the underlying data model, implementation specifics of important business rules, batch jobs, user interface components, and application configuration.


* Experience in designing and developing relevant enhancements on top of industry COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) applications that differentiate and/or provide competitive advantage.


* Knowledge of business context and trends, as well as the business customers' opportunities. Awareness of the functional aspects of the solution.



Interpersonal Skills

* Ability to create and articulate ideas and solutions for both technical and business functions


* Ability to use facts and data to influence peers and leads on solutions and designs


* Ability to work with process owners and identify information technology solutions that enable business process improvements


* Excellent verbal and written communication skills


* Ability to negotiate priorities, approach, designs and ideas with team members and customers


* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills


* Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines


* Ability to use business knowledge, sound judgment, and resourcefulness to proactively


* Ability to make timely and effective decisions using a mixture of intuition, analysis, experience and judgment



Core Competencies

* Puts the Customer First: Has a relentless focus on the customer. Understands what the customer wants and how to best deliver the experience.


* Works Well with Others: Listens and communicates well with others within and outside of Starbucks. Creates a team environment that is positive and productive.


* Leads Courageously: Takes personal responsibility to do the right thing, and persists in times of challenge or uncertainty. Adapts quickly to change and makes timely, thoughtful decisions.


* Develops Continuously: Continuously seek opportunities to improve self and others. Leads with trust, honesty and commitment to hire, coach and develop partners to achieve their potential.


* Achieves Results: Understands what drives overall business success and is accountable to prioritize and deliver quality results. Demonstrates knowledge of core products and processes to get results. Anticipates obstacles and takes action to prevent or minimize their impact.



Starbucks and its brands are an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals, including minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities. Starbucks will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all federal, state, and local ordinances.