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Corporate 300 E John Carpenter Fwy Suite 900 Irving, TX 75062, USA

Corporate 300 E John Carpenter Fwy Suite 900 Irving, TX 75062, USA

Populus is an amazing company where our employees stay because they love their teams and the growth opportunities. Additionally, we offer a competitive 401K match, a generous paid time off package, and Health Benefits.

Our mission is to provide a broad range of quality financial products and services delivered with best-in-class customer service. We work and lead with integrity, and we celebrate employees who exemplify our values. Come join our team!

This position is responsible for providing supervision and direction to a group of application development resources to ensure development related projects and tasks are achieved. This position will support corporate initiatives including recruiting, employee retention, process improvements, and other activities required to meet both the needs of the organization and its internal customers. This position reports to the Director Corporate Systems.

Major Responsibilities

• Allocates, schedules, and delegates all development tasks to the resources on the team.
• Ensures quality assurance by continuous monitoring and review of Software Development Life Cycle procedures including:
  • Estimates for coding work
  • Initial solution design
  • Program coding
  • Code reviews
  • Unit testing
  • Change control
• Provides technical coaching and mentorship to development resources within the team.
• Manages HR attendance aspect of the resources including PTO/vacation requests, sick/leave requests, etc.
• Performs annual resource performance appraisals, as required, with members of the team.
• Responsible for coordinating and participating in all aspects of new hire recruiting, onboarding, and training activities.
• Helps develops and/or maintain development resource policies and procedures.
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
• Leadership
• Team player
• Time management
• Self-motivated
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, with sense of urgency
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in an ever-changing environment

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology or related, preferred
• Approximately 4 years’ experience related development experience and technical skills normally associated with banking, lending, retail/point of sale software, and service-oriented architecture/enterprise service
• 2+ years’ experience as a technical lead and/or supervisory experience with demonstrated leadership skill
• Experience in Banking, Lending, and/or FinTech would be a plus
• Experience in developing & maintaining IBM i (AS/400) applications with RPG ILE would be plus
• Experience with C#.NET for point-of-sale development would be a plus
• Experience with C#.NET for enterprise services development would be a plus

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major responsibilities.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand or walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop or bend; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Must have appropriate vision to see up close, and at a distance with ability to adjust vision and focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position, days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CT. This position might require after hours and weekend work.

Travel

N/A

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in some work environments can be moderate.

Disclaimer

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted, as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

EEO Statement

Populus Financial Group is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. In compliance with applicable law, Populus Financial Group does not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, pregnancy status, or any other protected classification. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotions, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

Bachelor's Degree or better in Information Technology or related field.

Experience related development experience and technical skills normally associated with banking, lending, retail/point of sale software, and service-oriented architecture/enterprise service required

Experience as a technical lead and/or supervisory experience with demonstrated leadership skill required

Experience in Banking, Lending, and/or FinTech preferred

Experience with retail POS (Point of Sale) register application development preferred

Experience with C#.NET for point-of-sale development preferred

Experience with C#.NET for enterprise services development preferred

Experience with IBM i (AS/400) DB2 stored procedures preferred

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