Associate Engineer - Customer

Come work for us!

We are looking for dedicated employees to join our team to help our customers have the best experience possible every time they enter a JD Finish Line store.

Our employees are key to our success.

The Associate Software Engineer will develops, maintains and improves internally developed applications and integrates with third party applications. This individual should effectively exhibit JD Finish Line's core values of Customer, People, Winning, Community, and Financial Responsibility in everything they do by performing the following key duties

Key Components:

• Works with product teams in an Agile environment to develop application solutions to help achieve business objectives.
• Creates effort level estimates for project and change requests using functional specification standard currently set by application development team.
• Develops unit and functional test plans, carry out unit test plans, and aid in the use of functional test plans and the verification of test results.
• Ensuring the availability of an application or product for end users consistent with Service Level Agreements.
• Provide support for Restoration of Service. This includes investigation of outage cause, business impact, and quick response for problem remediation.
• Monitor Applications in Production Environment through manual and automated means.
• Facilitate deployment of application code enhancements to the production environment.
• Communicate status of application production changes and outages.
• Ongoing maintenance, as assigned, of operational documentation for core business systems.
• Respond to inquiries from users for assistance in diagnosing production system operation, data, and business process support.
• Make ongoing recommendations for operational improvements of production applications.
• On-call support off business hours will be required.
• Additional duties and projects as required.

Technical Components:

• Java Development
• Unix/Linux scripting tools
• Writes complex queries using MySQL Oracle, SQL Server, or NoSQL.
• Software development experience in a professional environment.
• Hands-on with application design, software development and automated testing.
• Java/J2EE, XML, MaXPath, Web Services, REST services.

Required Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from a four-year college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related discipline; Additional 0-2 years in software development, preferably using JAVA languages, or equivalent experience required.

Core Competencies:

Communication Skills

Must be an effective communicator with internal and external individuals at all levels. This includes spoken, written, electronic, and presentation skills. Communication should be consistently constructive and professional.

Decision Making and Problem Solving Skills

Able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Able to analyze results at a micro and macro level and present findings. Makes routine decisions following established policies and procedures; collaborates with manager to gain assistance when complex issues arise.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit for more than 6 hours per shift
• Use hands to finger, handle and feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Talk and/or hear
• Walk or move from one location to another
• Periodically may need to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally
• Punctuality and regular attendance consistent with the company's policies are required for the position
• Average work week is 40-50 hours, which can vary depending on business needs.
• The work environment for this position is a moderately noisy office setting.

The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary basis per company policy.

Physical Demands - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary basis per company policy.

EEOC Statement:

The Finish Line, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to complying with all federal, state, and local EEO laws. The Finish Line, Inc. prohibits discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on the individual's race or color, religion or creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, sex, pregnancy status, age, military status, disability, or any other protected characteristic or class protected by law. The Finish Line, Inc. provides reasonable accommodation for disabilities in accordance with applicable laws.

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Applicants who require accessibility assistance to submit an employment application can either call Finish Line at (317) 613-6890 or email us at [email protected]. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will respond as soon as reasonably possible. (This email address and phone number is only for individuals seeking accommodation when applying for a job.)