Application Architect

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Job Description:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The associate is responsible for the functions below, in addition to other duties as assigned:

• Business analysis, application design, development, integration and delivery and application maintenance and support functions. 

• Designs an application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases, programming languages, utilities, and testing approaches.

• Participates in the assessment of software defects discovered during the quality assurance process.

• Participates in addressing enterprise-wide platform and technology requirements for applications.

• Develops detailed programming instructions to solve business problems through automation support.

• Work closely with business SME personnel to develop and maintain a functional understanding and documentation of the business use of applications and what processes have been developed against the data and functions associated with those applications as well as any data challenges that may exist. 

• Perform technical detailed analysis on the database structures, database components, batch processing, and online processes and document that analysis in an easy to understand and informative way.  Keep existing documentation up to date on a regular basis.

• Continually evaluate the effectiveness of the application and associated procedures documenting all points of weakness with suggestions for areas of improvement for review with the business.

• Lead and/or participate in requirement gathering and issue resolution meetings with technical and business resources.  Be able to create business requirements definition, functional, system design and technical specifications that are detailed, complete and in compliance with the Weis Markets IT standards.

Supervisory Responsibilities

The position does not directly supervise associates but will serve as a mentor for application analysts and support associates.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, the associate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required:

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor’s degree (BS) in related field and a minimum of 8+ years of programmer analyst experience in information technology.  

Proficient in using modern development tools and environments such as GIT, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Experience in creating pipelines and automation for deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) workloads via Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer:  Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.