Dynamics Developer

Job Description

About Us

Building Services 32BJ Benefit Funds is the umbrella organization responsible for administering Health, Pension, Retirement Savings, Training, and Legal Services benefits to over 100,000 SEIU 32BJ members. Our mission is to make significant contributions to the lives of our members by providing high quality benefits and services. Through our commitment, we embody five core values: Flexibility, Initiative, Respect, Sustainability, and Teamwork (FIRST). By following our core values, employees are open to different and new ways of doing things, take active steps to improve the organization, create an environment of trust and respect, approach their work with the intent of a positive outcome, and work collaboratively with colleagues.

Position Summary:

Under the supervision of the Director of Development, the Dynamics 365 Developer would be involved in designing, coding, testing, and deploying new applications built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 to meet our business requirements. The developer would leverage technical expertise to configure and maintain the software applications, and provide technical guidance and leadership through the end-to-end delivery of the Dynamics 365 applications. This is a new position to the organization, and we are looking for an initiative mindset.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Design forms, workflow processes, web services, plugins, and other components needed to meet the business requirements within the Dynamics 365 system;

Design and develop Dynamics 365 components and third party integrations;

Configure and customize Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications using Forms, Native and Custom Entities, Plugins (JavaScript, C#), Microsoft Flows, PowerBI, PowerApps, Azure IoT Suite, AppSource and third party applications, Azure Machine Learning, and SSRS Reports;

Ensure that all solutions are lightweight, scalable, completely secure, and built to an appropriate level of quality;

Work with business users to configure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to meet requirements;

Develop and maintain new and existing applications, systems, custom reports, and database structures;

Participate in the implementation of the solution architecture, understanding and recognizing the impacts of the solution to other systems;

Participate in requirement analysis along with business analysts, and business users;

Create Design and Technical specifications document;

Assist and support other programmers in development, techniques and coding assignments;

Apply industry software development standards and best practices including, but not limited to, unit test automation, code reviews, and maintaining code versions / application solutions in available repositories (such as SVN);

Research and recommend new and existing technologies to meet business needs, including creating prototypes, design documents, and solution designs;

Plan and prioritize activities;

Report activities and progress to the management on a weekly basis;

Work on multiple projects at the same time;

Perform tasks as required by management; and

Provide support after hours and on weekends, when necessary.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

5+ years experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 with strong knowledge of and experience with platform capabilities, out of the box configurations, customizations, and integration with other components such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Server, and Outlook etc.;

Experience with the CE, Sales, Event Management/Marketing, Customer Service modules within Dynamics 365 is mandatory;

Experience working with Dynamics 365 Portals;

Experience building custom applications, modifications, integrations, data conversion routines, workflows, and custom reports for Dynamics 365;

Experience integrating MS Dynamics 365 with Azure Blob for document management;

Experience working with data migration and loading for Dynamics 365;

Experience in integrating with other AppSource and third party applications (Outlook, etc.);

Experience in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with knowledge of Agile and /or Waterfall methodology;

At least 3 years web development experience (ASP.Net, C#, JavaScript, MVC, MVVM, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, SOAP, XML, REST APIs);

Experience with SQL Server, Transact SQL;

Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS);

Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS);

Knowledge in data warehouse, ETL, data modeling is a plus;

Working knowledge of Oracle and Python programming is a plus;

Candidate must have excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, including effectively communicating with technical and non-technical team members;

Experience working in a high demand work environment.

Interpersonal Skills:

Detail oriented with excellent organization and analytical skills;

Ability to plan and take initiatives to accomplish objectives in timely fashion;

Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines;

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with team members, supervisors, and employees from other departments.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related discipline