Senior IT Software Engineer at Garmin International in Olathe, Kansas

Job Description:

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior IT Software Engineer in our Olathe, KS location. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing complex multi-system applications and drives collaboration with others to ensure effective project completion while working collaboratively to develop and implement unit and system testing processes.

Essential Functions

• Leads complex multi-system application development projects and drives collaboration with other teams/departments


• Provides technical input to solution development plans/concept documents and collaborates and adds value in design reviews


• Develops and supports integrations between multiple systems and/or applications


• Maintains, improves, and extends existing multi-system software and works collaboratively with Analysts/users to design software systems and develop/implement unit and system testing processes


• Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies and determines feasibility of team or functional goals/objectives


• Understands business impacts of issues as they relate to IT owned solutions, provides reliable solutions to wide range of difficult problems including evaluation of new technologies to improve existing functions, and consistently looks at opportunity in all change


• Serves as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers (Software Engineer 1 & 2)


• Demonstrates broad understanding of Garmin's business model including Engineering, Operations, Finance, Sales & Marketing


• Develops reliable solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity


• Participates in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs


• Designs and develops web-enabled client-side and server-side applications as part of a structured Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process


• Develops and consumes web services utilizing a services-oriented architecture

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience


• Must possess programming experience using Java (11, 17, 21+), dependency injection frameworks (Spring/Spring Boot), O/R mapping (Hibernate, OpenJPA)


• Must possess experience utilizing build lifecycle tools such as Maven or Gradle


• Experience with relational and/or non-relational database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch


• Experience with messaging/event streaming systems such as RabbitMQ and Kafka


• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD


• Experience with cloud-based development using platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes


• Must demonstrate proficiency in the development of unit and integration tests


• Demonstrated experience in successful implementation of technology solutions


• Must demonstrate proficiency and possess the experience necessary to design, enhances and develops complex multi-system applications


• Must demonstrate an ability to learn and understand secure coding practices


• Experience with version control systems such as Git


• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively to drive projects to effective/timely completion

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits

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