Analyst-Application Dev I

About the role

This Application Developer position resides within the IT Gas and CO2 systems application development team, working for one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America. The position will report directly to the Manager of this IT application development team.

The team is part of the IT - Gas and CO2 Systems department residing in the Kinder Morgan IT organization and develops and supports many custom and commercial solutions for approximately 84,000 miles of natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, and carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines, as well as over 85 terminals for storing and handling various chemicals and other products.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will serve in a technical developer role, working with other developers and project leads on major efforts, or independently as needed, depending on project size, scope, and timelines.

• Develop functional and technical documentation utilizing standard industry analysis tools and techniques.
• Develop new applications within the Kinder Morgan IT developer framework and maintain and enhance existing applications as needed by customer business groups.
• Convert business specifications into functional & technical specification documents.
• Collaborate with team members, both IT and business customers, in designing and developing minor to complex solutions, tools, scripts, & applications.
• Develop, support, and integrate applications using industry and company standards & best practices.
• Adhere to Waterfall and AGILE software development life cycle & project management principles.
• Evaluate and identify opportunities for business and application improvements within the company’s and team’s standards and platforms.
• Analyze and document technical capabilities and requirements for new and existing systems.
• Understand and follow solid object-oriented programming principles.
• Enhance & develop new user-facing features.
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Optimize components for efficiency and performance.
• Troubleshoot interface software and debug application code.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Systems, or a similar discipline is preferred.

• At least 3+ years of experience using Microsoft technologies in an application development environment.
• Extensive experience in using T-SQL to write and maintain complex business solutions.
• Proficiency in all aspects of the .NET application model.
• Must be fluent in .NET framework environment (C# / VB. NET / ASP. NET / MVC), SQL Server data management.
• 3+ years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing C# .NET and SQL Server-based solutions, tools, and applications.
• Experience in the Project life cycle, Design, Development, Testing, Migrations, and Implementations.
• Good interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to communicate systems requirements verbally and in writing.
• Experience working on multiple assignments during the same time frame and juggling tasks based on relative priorities with supervision commensurate with grade level.
• Ability to create technical artifacts such as object model & process flow diagrams and technical specifications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to communicate project requirements verbally and in writing.
• Highly motivated team player with a mature, positive attitude and passion to meet multiple challenges and opportunities of the business.
• Demonstrated technical aptitude to learn new concepts and technologies quickly with minimal direction.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the JIRA ticketing platform.
• Experience integrating Git-based development with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in developing applications for Oil and Gas companies.
• Experience in Leading Projects
• Experience in Crystal reporting, SSIS, and SSRS is a plus.