Senior Mendix Application Developer

Advanced Group leverages over 30 years of expertise in talent acquisition, staffing, and outsourcing solutions to operate the award-winning Advanced Group family of brands, including Advanced Clinical, Catena Solutions, and Advanced RPO. Together, with mastery across professional disciplines and global markets, we’re dedicated to make a difference, every day, for our clients, our candidates, each other, and our communities. Advanced Group’s Shared Services team provides corporate services such as Marketing, Human Resources, Finance & Accounting, IT, and Operations to each of our brands. Our employees are the foundation of our energetic and collaborative environment, where constant learning and service to others take top priority. We seek dynamic, hard-working team members who are inspired to work amongst diverse backgrounds and perspectives. From our altruistic mission to outstanding career development opportunities, there’s no better place to grow your career than Advanced Group. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Mendix Application Developer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Mendix applications within our Mendix AWS cloud environments. You will work closely with business analysts, software architects and business stakeholders to implement and enhance custom business applications. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in the Mendix low-code platform, Java and Oracle PL/SQL, along with a passion for solving complex problems. Experience in pharma and clinical trials is a plus. Qualifications: - Bachelor’s in Computer Science, or equivalent experience 5 or more years of experience in: - Mendix Web Application development - Java and its integration into the Mendix Platform and IDE - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Atlas UI, React and jQuery - PL/SQL syntax, including Views and Stored Procedures Strong proficiency and hands-on experience in: - Oracle SQL and other database technologies - Common data formats such as XML, JSON and CSV - Designing and consuming REST APIs - Experience in database design and query optimization - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git version control tools An in-depth understanding of: - Data structures, algorithms, code organization, runtime complexity, APIs, and testing methodologies - Application-level design patterns, the costs and benefits of each, and the ability to choose the correct approach to efficiently implement your tasks - The ability to break down, plan and complete story-level programming tasks of up to 80 hours of estimated effort, tested and error-free, with minimal supervision - Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail - Flexibility to change direction, iterate, and adapt - Excellent communication and collaboration skills Familiarity with the following is a definite plus: - The Medical and CRO industries - HIPPA, GDPR, FDA Regulations and Data Privacy laws - Formal Validation testing, documentation and requirements Key Responsibilities: Application Development: - Design, test and develop simple services and applications and complex software components and modules, review your work with senior software developers and architects, and incorporate their feedback - Contribute to software design discussions and decisions, create level of effort estimates for team development tasks, help drive the delivery of your projects to production on schedule - Assist junior developers in the completion of their individual tasks - Evaluate and prototype new solutions for small projects, including the learning and leveraging of new components, tools and technologies - Contribute to the code review process and suggest process improvements, to improve software quality, resiliency, testability and test automation - Follow industry standard best practices, including writing high quality code, developing functional and performance tests, maximizing test automation, and utilizing end-to-end deployment pipelines to maintain a fast velocity. Collaboration: - Continuously communicate with the team members and business partners in real-time, using Agile principles throughout the software development lifecycle to create, iterate, test and deploy software applications - Participate in the requirements management processes, following best practices to accurately gather, document, review and refine the full scope of user needs and functional requirements for the software components and applications under development - Elevate the capabilities of business stakeholders and analysts by sharing development best practices, refining and improving software requirements, and enabling those stakeholders to contribute directly to the application development process - Integrate our applications and components with other systems and APIs across the business, working with partner teams to help evolve their systems and make our shared services and data repositories available, resilient, and reusable Data Quality and Governance: - Follow industry standard best practices, including writing high quality code, developing functional and performance tests, maximizing test automation, and utilizing end-to-end deployment pipelines to maintain a fast velocity - An in-depth understanding of security and privacy best practices, to ensure compliance with all applicable data governance, regulatory and security standards Performance Optimization: - Monitor and tune applications to improve efficiency, reduce latency and ensure uptime - Anticipate, troubleshoot and resolve production issues Why Join Us? - Work with cutting-edge technologies and a collaborative team - Opportunities for professional growth and development - Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package At Advanced Group, our commitment to diversity and inclusion in every part of our organization is crucial to fulfilling our mission and demonstrating our REAL values. A diverse staff allows us to effectively draw on different perspectives and enhance our efficiency and effectiveness. Diversity thereby strengthens the legitimacy and relevance of Advanced Group in delivering services to our clients. We seek talented, creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds and cultures to work with us. It is our priority that our workplace be inclusive, welcoming of diverse ideas and appreciative of valuable experience. Equal Employment Opportunity It is Advanced Group’s practice not to discriminate against any Employee or applicant because of sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or sexual preference, pregnancy or maternity, genetic information, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. 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