Programmer Analyst IV

About the role

The Programmer Analyst plans, designs, leads, analyzes, codes, tests, documents, and implements functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated application systems of high complexity. This individual will be responsible for custom application development & integration for business functions including Finance, Human Resources and related back-office operations. These initiatives will be done in accordance with department policies, procedures, and standards to support information systems development and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership by establishing architecture standards, reusable artifacts, development patterns, roadmaps, and best practices while promoting knowledge sharing and solution consistency across teams
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, internal teams, and external vendors to deliver successful integration and application initiatives
• Design, architect, develop, test, document, integrate, and deploy complex enterprise applications and solutions that meet business requirements
• Design and implement event-driven architectures leveraging message brokers, event streaming platforms, publish/subscribe patterns, and asynchronous communication frameworks to enable scalable and resilient enterprise integrations
• Design and implement AI-enabled integration solutions utilizing large language models (LLMs), intelligent agents, vector-based knowledge retrieval, and workflow automation technologies to improve business processes and operational efficiency
• Lead API lifecycle management including API design, versioning, security, governance, developer enablement, and monitoring best practices
• Assume responsibility for application support and immediate response to production program problems
• Plan and manage project activities, resource allocation, schedules, and effort estimates to ensure successful delivery
• Provide technical assistance to other developers and systems analysts when needed
• Prepare and distribute weekly, monthly and ad hoc reports
• Create, assign and verify internal and external tracking links
• Assume responsibility for the content of formal design reviews

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• 8 or more years of related experience – in an IT development organization – recommended
• 4+ years of advanced integration implementation/maintenance with industry standard integration products, preferably WSO2, MuleSoft, TIBCO
• Advanced industry experience providing technical solutions development for enterprise software or hosted high-tech services using .NET or Java
• Advanced experience in Application Development using Microservices, ESB, and SOA/EAI technologies and API management
• Experience with enterprise message brokers and event streaming technologies such as Kafka, Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS/SNS, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, or equivalent
• Experience designing and supporting event-driven architectures, asynchronous integrations, and real-time data processing solutions
• Experience implementing API-first integration architectures and modern API management platforms
• Professional experience with continuous integration
• Exposure to either AWS or Azure
• Experience with Database platforms: SQL Server, MongoDB, DB2
• General understanding of technology infrastructure and application performance monitoring