SENIOR SMALLTALK DEVELOPER

Atlanta, Georgia

SENIOR SMALLTALK DEVELOPER
The Software Engineer analyzes requirements and designs, codes, tests, installs and maintains application systems, programs, functions, services, and other related software components in response to enterprise needs of high complexity.
Ability to drive individual tasks to successful timely completion
Analyze requirements and design solutions for approved projects and change requests.
Gather requirement data from various stakeholders and constituencies.
Prepare technical design options; collaborate with other technicians on options and strategies.
Develop, document and present complete design solutions and alternatives.
Prepare estimates of effort and duration for development tasks and activities.
Prepare and contribute toward full project documentation.
Design/develop system, application and program code according to business and technical requirements
Identify and validate solution interfaces, dependencies, and integration points.
Ensure code developed is compliant with best practices, standards and enterprise architecture
Participate and support quality assurance and testing
Adhere to change management requirements for application and system implementations.
Design code to minimize implementation risk and/or improve system reliability and performance.
Implement code according to current standards and policies.


Required skills:
5+ years Smalltalk experience
IBM VisualAge SmallTalk IDE experience
Must be able to implement OO code.
SQL Server and DB2 experience
Be able to take requirements and implement a solution without much input from others
Working knowledge of testing strategies
Be able to work in a small team environment and be a team player
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
DB2 UDB is a nice to have for this role, but is not required