Application Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon's HRIS team is looking for a bright and motivated Application Engineer to lead the design and development of interfaces, programs, and reports within the Kronos application suite. The selected candidate will also have an opportunity to build custom software to solve for some of the limitations of the Kronos suite.

Core activities will include gathering and defining requirements, gap analysis, design, development and support across multiple geographies for Kronos enhancements. Position requires strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to work with business functional users globally to comprehend business requirements for system development and modifications.

Job Responsibilities:
Interact with business customers to understand and document their business processes and requirements.
Perform gap analysis to determine our Kronos suite's system configuration and development changes.
Create detailed functional and technical design documents, test plans and test cases, user training documents and implementation documentation as necessary.
Develop scalable and efficient interfaces, custom reports, and other programs needed to solve business requirements
Enforce SDLC process so that timely and quality delivery is achieved

Personal Behaviors:
Proactive - display energy and initiative in solving problems. Follow all possible avenues to get the job done.
Adaptable - undertake a variety of tasks willingly. Ability to switch from complex to routine tasks when required. Adapt quickly to new technologies and products. Work effectively with a variety of personalities and work styles.
Quality - demonstrate appropriate quality and thoroughness in your work.
Decisive - ability to make decisions quickly when faced with multiple options. Ability to influence others in decided course of action.
Integrity - act with personal integrity at all times.
Professional - work within your team's processes. Confront problems, propose solutions and take ownership through to resolution or ensure a clear hand-off. Have a positive can-do approach to work.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· Three to three years of software engineering experience
· Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, RDL, and/or SSRS
· Experience with PL/SQL
· Experience with Java/J2EE and JSON
· Proven ability to apply best practices to the software development lifecycle based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches, as well as effective coordination of implementations across teams using very different approaches.
· Must have very strong analytical skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications with an emphasis toward highly available and scalable global solutions.
· Strong communication skills with diverse customers and audiences, across multiple disciplines and teams.