Delivery – Chicago, Illinois

HighlandSolutions is a global provider of collaborative, enterprise solutions. Our service offerings include custom development, cloud computing, systems integration, mobile applications, ecommerce, social business platforms and customer relationship management (CRM). Through strategic partnerships, we continue to lead and evolve the rapidly changing technology landscape. Our solutions are transactional, connected, compliant and mobile. We currently have an excellent opportunity for anApplication Developer.

The Application Developer is responsible for working towards delivering reliable software and hardware solutions, writing impeccable code and delivering projects on-time and on budget. The Application Developer takes ownership of assigned development projects from inception to delivery. He/she is expected to operate within an agile work team, with the ability to multi-task, teach and instruct team members, attend meetings with external clients as required to ensure client’s needs are met and successfully delivered.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions

• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code

• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming

• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures

• Tests products before they are put into production

• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

• Protects operations by keeping information confidential

• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues

• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results on-time and as needed

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle