FBS Agile Dev Team Member IV

About the Role

Agile Dev Team Members have collective responsibility for the design, development, testing and/or deployment of system functionality. Provides guidance, mentorship and training to a direct reporting staff of Agile Dev team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides technical feasibility using a range of coding methods and adheres to coding standards to ensure consistent style and format.
• Ensures systems are architecturally sound, high in code and component quality, and are easily modified to support future requirements with support and little to no guidance of more senior developers or architects.
• Ensures the end product meets the business acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements.
• Defines and executes tests early, often, and at multiple levels depending on their level of experience.
• Provides broad and deep level of thinking for exceptions and other unexpected ways users may interact with systems, based on their business products, processes and system knowledge.
• Utilizes intermediate testing techniques and tools.
• Demonstrates customer needs by interpreting into viable solutions and contributes significantly to the system design.
• Effectively breaks down features and writes and refines user stories, including clear and accurate acceptance criteria.
• Executes Test-Driven (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) to build in quality.
• Performs broad and detailed impact assessments relating people, processes and/or technology to evaluate work.
• Supports implementation activities, troubleshoots user/system environmental issues and training.
• Supports the business in building a Lean Business case and breaking epics into features.
• Identifies and raises issues and risks with functional design and offers alternative solutions.
• Works with the Product Owner to confirm the code and acceptance tests reflect the desired functionality.
• Codes instructions for computer programs/objects/components in multiple applications; configures packaged software.
• Provides expertise in the solution design and functionality of business applications.
• Reviews and validates application technical design of team members to ensure alignment with business needs and best practice architecture principles.
• Analyzes and evaluates existing manual and computerized systems/procedures to improve efficiency.
• Researches and develops techniques for automation.
• Documents and implements programs according to installation standards and conventions.
• Analyzes and makes recommendations on the need for system backup, security, restart/recovery, balancing & controls and recommends approaches for meeting such needs.
• Analyzes and documents the requirements and approaches to data conversion and data modeling.
• Quality checks program code, related objects and documentation.
• Delivers working code each sprint.
• Analyzes system and business requirements for testability by utilizing advanced testing tools.
• Develops, documents, executes and maintains test cases and test data.
• Identifies complex errors that occur in application testing and analyzes results to troubleshoot and execute root cause analysis.
• Reports the status of the test plan execution through defect logs and defect tracking systems.
• Conducts audits to ensure test planning and execution adheres to standards and guidelines.
• Defines advanced test plans needed to achieve appropriate level of coverage.
• Demonstrates ability to write test cases describing business behavior to facilitate automation and train others.
• Contributes to the overall test strategy.
• Provides input in the development of application quality and testing standards and best practices.
• Mentors junior team members in test planning and execution tools and techniques.
• Participates in key ceremonies to drive execution, improve flow and ensure transparency.
• Provides guidance to junior team members, when needed.
• Plans work via the preparation for and participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning and Sprint Planning, which includes developing and committing to Team PI Objectives and Sprint goals.
• Demonstrates working code to Product and Business Owners and supports the Product Owner in the execution of the iteration and PI System Demos.
• Actively participates in Sprint Retrospectives and Inspect & Adapt to timely discuss opportunities for improvement and is responsible for carrying out the execution of improvement stories.
• Participates in Daily Stand-ups to assess progress toward sprint goals and raise impediments.
• Participates in on-going and scheduled Backlog Refinement sessions.
• Demonstrates ongoing thirst for knowledge and a desire for continuous improvement.
• Actively seeks out development opportunities to further develop T-shaped skills and become a more cross-functional contributor.
• Creates an environment where knowledge and best practices are shared and fosters a culture of continuous learning and relentless improvement.
• Practices continuous exploration, continuous integration, and continuous deployment necessary for building the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and implementing DevOps.
• Conducts ongoing assessment of the current state and seeks out opportunities for improvement.
• Conducts research, design, prototyping and other exploration activities which fosters innovation and builds alignment between the customer need and what is delivered.
• Offers and implements innovative ideas within multiple areas of focus.
• Actively participates in Agile Dev Team Member Community of Practice (CoP) and builds a cooperative spirit and elicits maximum participation from each group member.
• Encourages group members to take ownership of the process and the outcomes.
• Able to plan and conduct CoP sessions.
• Effectively manages the communications and action items resulting from the sessions.
• Participates in other CoPs, where appropriate.
• Assists others in leading CoP sessions, as needed.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• AWS Glue - Advanced
• Advanced SQL
• Pyspark - Advanced
• Python - Intermediate
• AWS EMR Serverless - Intermediate
• AWS Step Functions - Intermediate
• AWS S3 - Intermediate
• AWS Airflow - Intermediate
• Snowflake - Advanced
• AWS Athena - Intermediate

Qualifications

• Experience with Agile methodologies.