Developer, Software

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General Job Duties:

• Exhibit an objective fair and professional attitude consistent with the Magna Employees Charter and maintain a positive productive workplace.
• Demonstrate teamwork sound judgment problem solving and a continuous-improvement mindset while following Decostar policies safety rules quality standards procedures and work instructions.
• Perform cross-functional assignments as required and communicate effectively with technical teams business partners management vendors and other stakeholders.

Specific Job Duties:

• Lead the design development testing deployment documentation maintenance and support of business-critical software applications integrations APIs automation and data solutions.
• Translate business requirements into secure scalable supportable technical designs; document architecture decisions data flows interface contracts dependencies non-functional requirements and implementation tradeoffs.
• Establish document and lead a practical SDLC covering intake and prioritization requirements design development peer review testing release readiness deployment post-release validation and ongoing support.
• Create and govern change management controls including approvals segregation of duties traceability release notes test evidence implementation plans rollback plans and production change records.
• Define development standards for source control branching code review secure coding automated testing CI/CD environment management coding quality and technical documentation.
• Lead solution and code reviews coach developers coordinate delivery priorities and ensure deviations from approved designs or standards are documented risk-assessed and remediated.
• Design and maintain relational database solutions including schemas stored procedures functions views indexes data models ETL processes and application-to-database integrations.
• Apply DBA logic to database provisioning configuration security access control patching upgrades performance tuning capacity planning monitoring backup and recovery replication high availability and disaster recovery.
• Govern database and schema changes across environments; coordinate deployments validate recoverability investigate performance or data-integrity issues and maintain database inventories runbooks and recovery procedures.
• Implement data quality reconciliation lineage retention auditability and access controls that protect the accuracy consistency availability and security of enterprise data.
• Partner with Security Infrastructure/Operations QA Enterprise Architecture business owners data owners and vendors to align application delivery with operational compliance and business requirements.
• Lead root-cause analysis for application database integration and release incidents; implement corrective actions and improve engineering practices based on production performance and lessons learned.
• Develop and report meaningful delivery and reliability measures such as cycle time defect leakage test results change failure rate rollback rate availability backup success capacity and recovery results.
• Provide technical leadership for modernization application rationalization cloud or managed-platform adoption and the reduction of technical debt and operational risk.
• Provide occasional on-call or escalation support for critical application integration database or deployment issues.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Advanced application programming knowledge in one or more enterprise development languages and strong proficiency with SQL; Python C# .NET Java JavaScript/TypeScript or comparable languages preferred.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture APIs integrations object-oriented design source control code review automated testing CI/CD and secure development practices.
• Strong working knowledge of relational database administration and engineering including data modeling query optimization indexing security backup and recovery high availability monitoring and controlled schema deployment.
• Demonstrated ability to create lead and continuously improve SDLC release governance and IT change management processes in an auditable operating environment.
• Knowledge of Agile and hybrid delivery approaches and their integration with formal architecture quality release and change controls.
• Ability to lead technical reviews mentor team members manage multiple priorities communicate tradeoffs clearly and convert business needs into measurable technical outcomes.
• Working knowledge of reporting analytics ETL data governance cloud platforms and manufacturing or enterprise application environments is preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in software development application delivery database engineering/administration systems integration or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated senior-level experience leading technical designs complex application changes database solutions production releases and cross-functional delivery activities.
• Experience establishing or governing SDLC and change management practices including requirements traceability testing evidence approvals deployment readiness rollback planning and post-release support.
• Experience supporting business-critical applications and databases in environments where availability security data integrity auditability and recovery are essential.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems Engineering or a related field required. A masters degree or an equivalent combination of education and highly relevant experience is preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• This position requires the ability to work at a computer workstation for up to eight (8) hours per day perform repetitive keyboard and mouse use maintain good close-distance vision and lift up to 10 pounds on an infrequent basis. See the attached physical description for additional requirements.

Decostar Training Requirements:

• You will receive training to perform your job on an on-going basis concurrent with Decostar business operations. Training areas will include safety quality continuous improvement and other job specific training that is determined to be an essential part of your job and Decostar business operations.

At Magna we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. Thats why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications and in consideration of job requirements regardless of in particular color ancestry religion gender origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.

As part of our commitment to a fair consistent and efficient recruitment process we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications submitted through our Workday system. These tools help identify qualifications and experience that align with the role requirements. Please note that AI is used solely to support our recruiters. Final decisions are always made by the hiring manager and the hiring team. Importantly no applicant data is shared externally through these AI tools. All information remains securely within our systems and is handled in accordance with our privacy and data protection policies.

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