Purpose of Role:
- Software Development of Warehouse Control Systems
Principal Accountabilities:
- Develop software with Java EE for projects with Dematic standard warehouse control system (Dematic iQ)
- Design and development software solutions according to Dematic established software standards and procedures
- Assist project and technical engineers to integrate the more complex software components into Dematic warehouse systems
- Design and perform software tests using standard Dematic testing framework
- Provide technical support to customers on-site
- Train customers and key-users on installed applications
- Estimate time to complete of new and existing development tasks
- Maintain a good relationships with all internal and external customers, through provision of a high quality service
- Deliver projects and tasks on time and within budget
- Work within an Agile environment
- Lead a value engineering approach to ensure cost efficient solutions are designed that achieve company goals for profit, service and support
- Attend site during software commissioning phases to ensure that integration testing and site acceptance testing is completed as required
- Willingness to travel; 10% - 20% is a necessity
- Other duties as required by the business
Senior Responsibilities:
- Translate business requirements to technical design documentation
- Write and review customer documentation
- Perform reviews of complex customers' standard specifications and other documentation to determine software development requirements
- Perform presentations of complex technical findings and developments to internal and external customers
Knowledge & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualification is expected
- Enthusiasm for software development and innovation
- Structural and methodical problem solving
Required Technical Competencies
- At least 3-5 years of industry Java programming experience
- Knowledge of Application Servers (Wildfly, Glassfish)
- Knowledge of Relational Databases (Oracle, SQL)
Desired Technical Competencies
- Java EE Environment
- Servlet/JSP
- EJB (Java Beans)
- GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
- Web services implementation
- Understanding of TCP/IP Socket Communication
- Automated Build Tools: Maven
- Version Control: GIT / Subversion
- IDE: IntelliJ IDEA
- SW Methodologies: Agile / Scrum
Other Desired Knowledge
- Knowledge of Warehouse Management Systems
- Knowledge of Automated Intra-logistic processes
- Knowledge of Virtualisation (VMWare etc.)
- Knowledge of Software/Hardware setup
Core Competencies
- Customer focus
- Communication skills
- Problem solving skills
- Commercial awareness and cost focus
- Decision making
- Ability to learn
- Ability to work within a global team
- Ability to work under minimum supervision
Special conditions
- The post holder will be required to work outside the core business hours. Some weekend work may be required
- To support the geographical spread of our sites, the post holder will be required, on occasion, to travel around North America with some European or World travel