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We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.\nCome join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!\nKey Responsibilities:\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION:\nAll CVs should be submitted in English.\nThis position is open to candidates based in countries where World Vision International is legally registered to operate.\nIndividuals working in an Application Developer III role work on multiple projects that may span a broad range of applications as a project team member, sometimes as a project lead. Individuals working as a Sr. Application Developer require expertise in multiple technical environments and business knowledge that spans one or more business areas.\nIndividuals must be able to adjust to constant business change and as needed to proactively plan for changes that are likely to occur. Common types of changes include introduction of new organizations through mergers and acquisitions, the separation of parts of organization (as subsidiaries, or when the business changes direction), evolving goals and strategies and emerging technologies. These changes require integration of solutions that can impact the overall system development activity. Application Developers also provide client support, consultation and subject matter expertise for system development, maintenance and support.\nIndividuals within the Application Development job family work closely with clients, business analysts and team members to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. These solutions must be aligned with business and IT strategies and are in compliance with the organization’s architectural standards. Application Developers are involved in the full systems life cycle and therefore are responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing and supporting application software that is delivered on time and within budget. Responsibilities beyond development of software may include participation in component and data architecture design, technology planning, product evaluation, advanced testing processes and buy vs. build recommendations. Individuals also provide input to project plans related to the Application Development initiative.\nApplication Developers have a strong knowledge of programming languages used by the organization. They have experience in systems design and have a solid understanding of development, database development, testing, and integration methodologies. Knowledge of current and emerging IT products, services and processes is required.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITES:\nPROJECT PLANNING:\nParticipates in all project planning processes.\nMay develop work plan timelines and manage work flows to meet project timeframes.\nAPPLICATION PORTFOLIO MGT:\nWorks with Applications Team Lead and ‘operations team’ and architects to ensure the practical, smooth, effective application retirement which may include any data migration, planning of application de-coupling, and staging and phasing of work to ensure smooth, risk-free application retirement.\nDATA REQUIREMENTS:\nIdentifies better sources of data feeds and interfaces with architects to ensure their feasibility with corporate data warehouse, when needed.\nActively participates in planning sessions with Architecture team to define, plan, analyze, implement and operationalize enterprise data model.\nDESIGN:\nIdentifies technical requirements.\nCreates technical design specifications and assists and reviews 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identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications.\nParticipates on teams that outline the process and scope out the improvements that can be realized through the application solution.\nDOCUMENTATION/USER GUIDES:\nDocuments functions and changes to new or modified modules and test. activities/results and other areas such as error handling and backup/recovery procedures.\nAssists in the development of user guides and training documentation for systems.\nKnowledge Management: ensures proper Institutional knowledge creation by embedding documentation in repos or code, using various artifacts.\nContribute to coding standards and guidelines development.\nSTANDARDS/QUALITY:\nAdheres to standards and procedures.\nReviews modules for quality assurance and checks compliance with applications standards and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).\nHelps to define the company’s standard development process (SDLC).\nPeriodically works with Application Developer Team Lead to review and revise company’s standard development process (SDLC) in alignment with changes in corporate and business goals, and as required by IT architectural standards.\nTECHNOLOGY EVALUATION AND RESEARCH:\nEvaluates new application packages and tools and perform research on best practices. \nCoordinates with EA introduction in Standard approved technology catalogue.\nProvides recommendations for solutions.\nProactively flag EOSL and remediation strategies.\nTRAINING:\nMay prepare and present formal training to IT staff, as needed.\nCOACHING/MENTORING:\nProvides technical coaching and mentoring to less-experienced team members.\nProvides technical guidance or system process expertise.\nDevelops reports and presentations for senior management, as needed.\nKNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE:\nRequired Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification\nBachelor's degree in Programming/Systems, Computer systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, 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