Sr. Software Developer

About the Company

BMI is a mission-driven organization at the forefront of music rights and creator advocacy. Celebrating over 80 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, BMI is a global leader in music rights management. Currently representing the public performance rights in over 25 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.4 million artists. BMI negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are publicly performed.

About the Role

POSITION SUMMARY: Designs, builds, and maintains software. Extensive interaction with product management, UI/UX designers, enterprise architects, and other software developers to design and develop innovative solutions to real market problems.

FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB

Essential Functions: which may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position.

• Provides technical leadership on all assigned projects to ensure delivery of valuable solutions in alignment with BMI’s business needs, technological platform architecture, and overall SDLC.  This includes understanding business requirements, adhering to technical architecture standards, recommending technical design, monitoring development and testing efforts, resolving technical issues, making technical decisions, and supporting deployment of the product.
• Participates in all phases of managing Application Lifecycle Management: requirements analysis, development, testing, and implementation. Participate in technical logic and design discussions.
• Identifies the appropriate software architecture based on the requirements and on enterprise architecture guidelines.
• Leads the review process for software architecture documents.
• Contributes to the review and analysis of business requirements.
• Integrates internal and external product design into a cohesive user experience.
• Works with UX/UI to improve and refine product visual design and consistency.
• Creates, maintains, and presents technical documentation to different audiences and levels.
• Performs resource, technical and risk assessments.
• Works with other development, architecture, and product development teams to ensure delivery of product.
• Works with third party vendor on technical design/specifications, development, testing and deployment to ensure the product meets the requirements.
• Assists in the timely completion of assigned development projects.
• Prepare required documentation, including project plans, software program, and user documentation
• Assists in the estimation of personnel requirements, cost, and time for development projects.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Regular attendance.
• Supports our BMI Core Values and cultivates a culture of diversity and inclusion.

Physical/Visual Activities or Demands: Physical/visual activities or demands that are commonly associated with the performance functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sitting, talking, hearing, and walking.
• Concentrated mental and visual attention with normal hand-eye coordination.
• Clarity of vision at 20 inches; corrected or uncorrected.
• Generally negligible physical effort, but occasional moving of 1 to 10 lb. items.

Environmental/Atmospheric Conditions: Environmental and atmospheric conditions commonly associated with the functions of this job.

Normal office conditions. 

POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Education:  Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or Math or related industry experience

Front End - Experience:  

• Eight (8) years Object Oriented development experience
• Eight (8) years C# project implementation experience (additional experience is strongly preferred)

• Strong hands-on expertise in developing C# server-side multi-threaded services
• Strong hands-on expertise in developing web applications utilizing ASP.NET MVC
• Strong hands-on experience with multi-tier design patterns and frameworks; MSDN Patterns, MVC, Entity Framework.
• Proficiency in JQuery, HTML5, Ajax, CSS, JavaScript
• Deep knowledge of the .NET framework amd a proficiency with Visual Studio
• Strong SQL experience: MS SQL Server preferred

• Proficiency in Team Foundation Server/VSTS is preferred
• Experience with industry standard communication protocols:  REST, JSON XML AND SOAP
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies
• Experience developing Microsoft Azure systems is a plus

Mainframe - Experience:       

• Ten (10) years Mainframe development experience
• Ten (10) years strong hands-on experience in the following technical areas:
• DB2 for ZOS
• COBOL II
• MVS JCL
• CICS
• TSO/ISPF
• Microsoft Office Including Visio
• IBM DFSORT and ENDEVOR experience is a plus
• Proven database experience, strong SQL experience

Skills and Abilities: This may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position.

• Must possess ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Must be a self-motivated team player who understands the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and open communication, including a willingness to occasionally work in a pair-programming environment
• Must possess the ability to create and maintain artifacts including use cases, data flow charts, process flow diagrams, software requirements document, functional specifications document, etc.
• Must possess strong analytica, problem solving and technical documentation skills
• Must possess ability to effectively present information and respond to questions
• Experience with distributed systems or a large enterprise background is preferred
• Must have an excellent understanding and hands-on experience with design and development best practices
• Detail orientation and strong attention to detail
• Must have progressive achievement in job history
• Must be willing to work overtime, including weekends, when required
• Understanding of SDLC automation concepts such as continuous integration
• Must possess ability to implement strong unit and service-level tests

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position.  Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws. 

 “Commonly associated” is not intended to mean always or only.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.