Comptroller - Senior Programmer V

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The Integrated Business Applications team in Information Technology division believes that innovation, modernization, and transformation is all that we do. We are looking for a talented and skilled Power Builder Programmer to join our Agile team supporting a variety of custom applications. As part of the team, you’ll be continually challenged and responsible for delivering high performance solutions for our customers.

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll be working collaboratively to support our existing applications and working on modernization of those in as Agile environment. You will also be resolving problems, troubleshooting issues, debugging, and correcting defects. You are a great fit for this position if you are self‑motivated, maintain and code to development standards, are exceptional at attention to details, have excellent communication skills and sound judgement, and work well in a team environment.

Work Hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 40‑hour week, Monday – Friday. Occasionally work additional hours on evenings, weekends, and/or holidays, including working on‑call 24 hours a day during a rotation. Hours may change based on business need.

Teleworking may be considered if certain working conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency within the state of Texas and must be able to meet in office requirements, which can vary among different sections (i.e. report to office 1 day/month, 3day/week, etc.). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.

• Graduation from an accredited four‑year college or university with a bachelor’s degree.
• Six (6) years of work experience in programming information system applications in Power Builder.
• Six (6) years of work experience in programming information system applications in .NET.
• Six (6) years of work experience in supporting applications with a relational database.
• Six (6) years of work experience in problem analysis, resolution and testing.
• Two (2) years of work experience in application architecture and design.
• Two (2) years of work experience leading medium to large scale project.

• Graduation from an accredited four‑year college or university with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Management Information Systems.
• Three (3) years of work experience using a structured Software Development Life Cycle methodology for software development and…