Technical Analyst

Job Summary

Barnes & Noble is a leading retailer of content, digital media, and educational products, operating over 600 bookstores in 50 states. We strive for excellence in quality and customer service.

This position is for an experienced Programmer Analyst to join a team of developers who primarily work with Microsoft technologies to support the business. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for meeting with stakeholders to understand and document business requirements, developing and designing efficient program components using industry standards and best practices, documenting test results, and raising tickets as needed for production deployments. You will also participate in creating project plans and reporting project status to management. Additionally, you will provide production support for applications that support the stores, website, and corporate office.

An employee in this position can expect a competitive salary, depending on experience, seniority, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law.

Local candidates only please, as this role will require on-site time in the Westbury, NY office location.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to design and document user requirements

• Maintain existing applications as well as develop new applications

• Develop, test, and implement code following best practices and coding standards

• Collaborate with team members to build effective, scalable solutions

• Participate in status meetings and be able to communicate project status

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical degree, or equivalent experience

• Five years of working experience in Dot Net Programming

• Five years or working experience with SQL Server and/or Oracle databases

• Knowledge of Retail or Retail-based systems a plus

• Knowledge of EDI a plus

• Microsoft .Net

• C# programming experience

• Microsoft .Net framework version 4.5 and above

• Microsoft.Net Core framework version 2.0 and above

• WPF, Winforms, Webforms, and MVC

• APIs and Web Services

• Client-side scripting using JavaScript and jQuery

• Visual Studio 2013 and above

• SQL Server 2012 and above, including SSMS, SSRS, and SSIS

• Oracle and SQL Developer

• ETL Processing to load and generate files

• Web API, LINQ, ADO.Net, and Azure

• Design patterns

• Distributed and scalable application development

• Familiarity with version control systems such as PVCS/Subversion/TFS

• Strong interpersonal and communications skills with the ability to clearly articulate yourself and ideas both verbally and in writing to users and management.

• Motivated independent self-starter.

• Must be able to comprehend business processes.

• Strong organizational, analytical, and time management skills.

• Ability to work well independently and in a team-oriented environment.

• Ability to take initiative and responsibility.

• Suggests and shares technical alternatives to improve and streamline processes.

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