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Alexander City - USA

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Salary Not Disclosed

Job Description

For further inquiries regarding the following opportunity please contact one of our Talent Specialists:
Abdul
Kunal
Title: Senior Application Specialist Payroll
Location: Menomonee Falls WI
Duration: Permanent Hire
Ideally completely onsite hybrid would be the next best thing and most likely. Would like someone in the Milwaukee area. The hybrid schedule is flexible 3 days in the office 2 days remote.

Description

Why join our client

  • An awardwinning culture! They are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 10 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years).

  • Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible.

  • Comprehensive benefit package including medical dental vision life a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few.

  • Promote from within culture.

Why join this team

  • This position has the opportunity to interface with and have a positive impact on multiple areas of clients business

  • We hold ourselves accountable to high standards share wins operate ethically and have fun

Position Overview

The Senior Application Specialist is a seniorlevel position and serves as a subject matter expert across the business domains they support. They are accountable for ensuring the day to day operations of the systems under their charge and for supporting and implementing change and configuration management including testing and defect management relating to new product implementations development development releases upgrades patches and other system maintenance as required. Application Specialists will work closely with Business resources and stakeholders internal Technology teams various vendors and thirdparty consultants and implementers. They must understand their applications interdependencies with other applications and infrastructure both internally and outside the corporate network.

What Youll Do

  • Support the enterprise change management and software development lifecycle (SDLC) process including providing testing defect management peer review and release management ensuring appropriate segregation of duties

  • Write and maintain system documentation process maps test scripts use cases user stories root cause analysis and highlevel integration and data flows as needed. Author complex system reports and data integration/migration templates

  • Support and lead complex acquisition and conversion teams to ensure the acquired entitys data and/or systems are accurately migrated over to the new environments. Support corporate compliance regulatory and both internal and external audit examinations and reviews

  • Provide Tier 2 applicationlevel support and troubleshooting escalation and complex problemsolving

  • Provide technical and operational guidance on application configuration and data analysis

  • Provide leadership mentoring and training implementing best practices. May include the management of a team or other Application Specialists

  • Must be willing to provide support 24x7x365

Qualifications

  • 710 years of relevant experience with an emphasis on application implementation testing maintenance configuration customization and support

  • Advanced understanding of data at both a functional and technical level in order to troubleshoot and identify potential issues

  • Working knowledge and understanding of hardware and systems software technologies and network infrastructure and understanding issues and details of integrating diverse technology to deliver scalable robust and highperformance solutions.

  • Experience building complex workflows and business process maps required

  • Advanced level experience in the following technologies or similar a plus:

    • Payroll processing systems and ERP platforms especially Lawson and ancillary systems such as BSI Tax Factory and Bottomline Transform

    • Proficiency in one or more database systems (SQL Server Oracle MySQL etc.)

    • Java and other development languages and technologies familiarity with COBOL would be ideal

    • SQL Server (SSIS SSMS SSRS and SSAS) to support reporting and integration

    • Crystal Reports for additional reporting

    • Microsoft technologies (SQL Azure Office 365 NET)

    • Application Programming Interfaces (API) and microservices technologies

    • Representational state transfer (REST) architecture

    • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

    • Salesforce

    • ServiceNow

    • Mulesoft middleware

    • PowerShell or other scripting technologies

Education Required: bachelors degree is highly encouraged

Years of experience: 710 years or more

Systems/Applications: Lawson COBOL MS SQL Server development overall database maintenance experience.

MustHave Requirements

Payroll experience
Programming experience (COBOL Java . Net) This is for actual development not just scripting.
ERP related experience

Nice to Have Requirements

Lawsons experience would be ideal but willing to train (COBOL)

SQL Server experience

Prescreen questions:

1. Find out about the development experience and dig out to find just how much experience they have. This requires a lot of application programming experience. Questions like: Explain a larger project youve worked on requiring you to do handson development work.

2. Describe your experience working with SQL server.

3. Did you do stored procedure development work Did you do table design work

4. Did you interact with the end users of the system you developed or supported

5. Have you interacted with the brand users for the development work including business leadership

About us: DivIHN the IT Asset Performance Services organization provides Professional Consulting Custom Projects and Professional Resource Augmentation services to clients in the MidWest and beyond. The strategic characteristics of the organization are Standardization Specialization and Collaboration. DivIHN is an equal opportunity employer. DivIHN does not and shall not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race color religion (creed) gender gender expression age national origin (ancestry) disability marital status sexual orientation or military status.

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