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Senior SharePoint Developer

gategroup is the leading global provider of above-the-wing services.  We specialize in catering and hospitality; provisioning and logistics; and onboard solutions to companies that serve people on the move.  Our customers include top airlines, railroads and hotels around the world that rely on our expertise and solutions tailored to their guests, service offerings and geographic region.

We are passionate about helping our customers satisfy hundreds of thousands of their guests around the world every day. The combination of our commitment and expertise has made gategroup the industry leader, a reputation we strive to fulfill daily. 

This SharePoint Developer must be able to work independently while designing, programming, testing and debugging SharePoint applications within a multi-tiered system.   The Senior SharePoint Developer will have direct impact into the company's success with the ability to contribute to  state of the art airline propietary deliverables and will lead corporate intiatives to build SharePoint applications.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops SharePoint software components in a fast paced multidisciplinary environment
• Leads on discrete development projects and should take complete ownership of technical solution
• Develops accurate level of effort estimates, and manages task schedules
• Builds overall system architecture of information system, encompassing external and internal interface analysis and definition, as well as functional requirement allocations.
• Works with system users to identify problems with focus on performance tuning and patches
• Understands consumer customer requirements with respect to its impact to the success of the business goal and be able to translate them to a technical implementation
• Suggests innovative solutions to business problems/ processes that leverage technology to provide marketing differentiation, performance improvements, and better user experiences
• Provides direction and mentoring to junior developers
• Interacts well with other technical team leaders such as architects, testing, analysts, and release managers as a lead member of the development team in order to accomplish the business goal.

Education:

• Must have Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. Foreign degree equivalent accepted.

Work Experience:

• 6+ years of SharePoint programming experience
• 8-10 years of relevant IT experience.

Job Skills:

• Strong understanding of SharePoint programming best practices
• Strong understanding of SharePoint development tools and environment.
• Strong understanding of distributed computing concepts
• Strong understanding of SDLC processes and methodologies
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and production diagnostic skills.
• Strong experience in using Design Patterns
• Have experience is building enterprise web applications
• Possess extensive object-oriented design and development experience
• Very strong at XML and Web services technologies
• Very proficient in SQL Server 2005 programming
• Analyze, consolidate and tune SQL queries for optimal efficiency
• Ability to build reports using crystal reports and/or SQL Server Reporting Services.
• Mobile application development on Windows mobile platform.
• Experience developing dot net applications is a plus.

Communication Skills:

• Strong technical written and verbal communication in English

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

• N/A

Travel:

• Up to 10%

Environmental Requirements:

• Normal office environment

Demonstrated Competencies to be Successful in the Position:

• Thinking - Information search and analysis, problem resolution skills
• Engaging - understanding others, team leadership, developing people
• Inspiring - influencing and building relationships, motivating and inspiring, communicating effectively
• Achieving - delivering business results under pressure, championing performance improvement, customer focus

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required.  Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary.  In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Candidates will be required to go through pre-employment drug screen, criminal check and/or airport fingerprinting.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer!

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