Careers
At Sovereign Technologies, we understand that your career is one of the most important parts of your life. We also recognize that you are an individual with your own skills and needs. That’s why our recruiters only consider opportunities for you that fit your unique skills, personality and goals. We offer many exciting opportunities for candidates seeking direct hire, right-to-hire and consulting positions. Sovereign can help you build your best future!
Current Openings - Developer
Jr SQL /ETL Developer/Database developer
Categories: Developer
- 2-5+ years of professional experience with ETL Development, Data Analysis SQL
- Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent degree;
- Sufficient depth and breadth of technical knowledge to be individually responsible for the design and scope of deliverables within a field of expertise. Has led small team in delivery of a specific deliverable
- Mastered at least one technical discipline with strong knowledge in at least three major technology areas
- Possesses advanced level of business, technical, or functional knowledge
- Ability to perform/drive resolution of problems on combinations and interactions of products
- Ability to apply technology and consulting to solve a client business problem
- Able to communicate and present complex issues with assurance and confidence
- Demonstrates the use of consulting skills including: questioning, listening, ideas development, permission and rapport, and influencing
- Ability to conduct/lead oral status/technical interchange meetings with clients on small to medium sized engagements
- Owns and produces customer documentation. Ability to translate technical details into concise and easy to understand written form. Ability to write relevant components of a proposal document (e.g. answer specific RFP questions). Ability to translate verbal requirements from face to face client meetings into requirements documents, statements of work, and proposals
- Able to discuss (within own area of expertise) requirements with a customer, and to challenge and clarify when appropriate. From the requirements, able to develop a high level design or plan, and then estimate the amount of effort required to deliver. Able to advise the engagement owner about the risks associated with this work package
- Ability to work with a team to provide written responses to technical proposals and /or reports/documentation for delivery
Sr. Developer
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: .NET, C#, Developer, Engineer, Java, Oracle Developer, SQL Development, SQL Server
- Provide IT solution design, delivery, and support expertise in Prophet, C#, Web, JavaScript, Oracle, and SQL Server technologies.
- Apply leadership and ownership through full solution development lifecycle while providing estimates, deliverables, and results.
- Meet regularly with Project Management and Technical Leads to manage status, milestones, risks, and issues in an Agile SDLC.
- Engage in customer planning sessions and demonstrate ability to drive out requirements.
- Analyze requirements, develop technical specifications, and perform solution gap analysis via Agile/Scrum methodology.
- Provide technical and/or business application consultation to customers and team members regarding functionality, architecture, operating systems, and databases for complex product systems.
- Prepare and present application and programming design solutions to fulfill business requirements.
- Engage technical analysts and business users to provide input on test cases, test scenarios, and test plans.
- Engage teams outside of immediate group as required (e.g. product integration points, infrastructure, help desk, security, and vendors).
- Evaluate and balance application change risk with business need for timely product enhancements.
- Efficiently design, deliver, and release operational enhancements to address performance, stability, and monitoring capabilities.
- Develop and mature operational support knowledge base and playbook documentation to complement product solutions.
- Identify and rapidly resolve issues to enable operations. Provide training guidance to team members and users as required.
- Develop and maintain effective customer relationships to maintain credibility and trust.
- Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into systems design and technical solutions.
- Proven experience with structured and object-oriented programming, design patterns, relational database design, operating systems, networking concepts, and systems integration.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate project objectives and scope for feasibility, understanding, and scheduling, and to ensure projects meet budget and plan criteria.
- Complex analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to multi-task and work well within a team environment.
- Advanced interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to apply leadership when required.
- Advanced oral and written communication skills.
- Agile.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science
- Certification in Microsoft C#.NET software development
- Certification in Microsoft or Oracle database development
- 10+ years of experience in programming/systems analysis in C#.NET, ASP.NET, and JavaScript
- 7+ years of experience implementing SOA and web applications with heavy relational database integration
- 7+ years high volume RDBMS database development experience with complex SQL
- 5+ years of experience with Agile development, including code reviews, TDD, automated testing, continuous integration, refactoring
- 2+ years of experience integrating and supporting FIS Prophet Professional and Prophet Enterprise v8.x or higher
- 2+ years of Microsoft HPC integration and support experience
- 2+ years of reinsurance industry experience
- LOMA certification
.NET Developers – #160355
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: .NET, Agile, C#, Developer, Java, Oracle Developer, SQL Development, Systems Analyst, Web Developer
- Provide IT solution design, delivery, and support expertise in Prophet, C#, Web, JavaScript, Oracle, and SQL Server technologies.
- Apply leadership and ownership through full solution development lifecycle while providing estimates, deliverables, and results.
- Meet regularly with Project Management and Technical Leads to manage status, milestones, risks, and issues in an Agile SDLC.
- Engage in customer planning sessions and demonstrate ability to drive out requirements.
- Analyze requirements, develop technical specifications, and perform solution gap analysis via Agile and Scrum methodology.
- Provide technical and/or business application consultation to customers and team members regarding functionality, architecture, operating systems, and databases for complex product systems.
- Prepare and present application and programming design solutions to fulfill business requirements.
- Engage technical analysts and business users to provide input on test cases, test scenarios, and test plans.
- Engage teams outside of immediate group as required, such as product integration points, infrastructure, help desk, security, and vendors.
- Evaluate and balance application change risk with business need for timely product enhancements.
- Efficiently design, deliver, and release operational enhancements to address performance, stability, and monitoring capabilities.
- Develop and mature operational support knowledge base and playbook documentation to complement product solutions.
- Identify and rapidly resolve issues to enable operations; provide training guidance to team members and users as required.
- Develop and maintain effective customer relationships to maintain credibility and trust.
- Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into systems design and technical solutions.
- Proven experience with structured and object-oriented programming, design patterns, relational database design, operating systems, networking concepts, and systems integration.
- Demonstrate an ability to evaluate project objectives and scope for feasibility, understanding, scheduling, and ensure projects meet budget and plan criteria.
- Complex analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to work well within a team environment and ability to multi-task.
- Advanced interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to apply leadership when required.
- Advanced oral and written communication skills.
- Masters degree in Computer Science.
- Certification in Microsoft C#.NET software development.
- Certification in Microsoft or Oracle database development.
- 10+ years of experience in programming/systems analysis in C#.NET, ASP.NET, and JavaScript.
- 7+ years of experience implementing SOA and web applications with heavy relational database integration.
- 7+ years high volume RDBMS database development experience with complex SQL.
- 5+ years of experience with Agile development, including code reviews, TDD, automated testing, continuous integration, refactoring.
- 2+ years of experience integrating and supporting FIS Prophet Professional and Prophet Enterprise v8.x or higher.
- 2+ years of Microsoft HPC integration and support experience.
- 2+ years of reinsurance industry experience.
- LOMA Certification.
Cognos Developer – 150287
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: BI, Cognos, Developer
Sr. Java Developer (Direct Hire) – 150286
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: Developer, Java
- Java
- JPA/Hibernate
- Spring (core)
- JAX-RS
- JSON
- HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- backbone.js
- bootstrap.js
- Agile (Scrum)
- Identifies, analyzes, and documents business and technical requirements and systems specifications.
- Creates and performs software coding.
- Provides guidance and training for analysts and programmers.
- Creates and enforces software quality standards.
- Implements and deploys information systems.
- Evaluates vendor-supplied applications and deploys and integrates vendor-supplied software.
- Generates suggestions for process and product improvements.
- Communicates status of assigned work to management and follows practices and procedures covered by precedents, standards, or policies.
- Develops an awareness of systems and operating area interrelationships.
- Ensures the efficient development of optimal information systems through a variety of duties, including management of tasks within schedule and budgetary constraints, coordination of development and implementation efforts across disciplines, generation and presentation of users’ training material or development plans, and expansion of knowledge applicable to technical platforms and applications.
- Bachelors’ Degree in an Information Systems discipline.
- Five or more years of experience in IS development and support.
Salesforce.com Specialist – 150277
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: Developer, Salesforce
- Serve as IT analyst and collaborate with business partners to solve complex and critical business issues and enable CRM and sales processes using Salesforce.com platform.
- Develop requirements (user stories) and provide scalable designs for the implementation of additional CRM system functionality.
- Create or change screen layouts, fields, business rules (validations and workflow) to support business requirements.
- Perform analysis, administration, troubleshooting, testing, software, and data environment refreshes.
- Manage, package, and deploy software releases to all environments using robust software development lifecycle methodology.
- Evaluate Salesforce.com releases and provide assessment to business for adopting new functionality.
- Partner with global IT organization to ensure secure and stable system environment.
- Work closely with subject matter experts, developers, testers, and business partners.
- Set team direction, resolve problems and provide guidance to members of team.
- May oversee work activities of other team members.
- Adapt priorities to address business and operational challenges.
- Provide thoughtful and thorough support to Top Users to resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Demonstrate ability to influence business teams and maximize the applications being developed, leveraging the best solutions.
- Provide Top User training for new functionality.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of Salesforce.com administration and customization
- 5+ years working on large implementations of the Salesforce.com application
- SFDC Administrator Certification
- SFDC Advanced Administrator Certification
- Intermediate to expert level of proficiency in Salesforce.com administrative tasks, such as creating user profiles, roles, custom objects, custom fields, page layouts, workflow rules, validation rules, reports, and dashboards
- Strong understanding and experience with data management and relational database design, SQL/SOQL, data formats, table joins, ETL, etc.
- Business analysis skills, including ability to convey processes and designs in graphical format
- Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical deliverables
- Ability to execute data loads using the Salesforce APEX Data Loader or other ETL tool
- Advanced Excel skills
- Ability to travel internationally up to 10 percent of the time
- SFDC Developer Certification
- SFDC Consultant Certification
- Knowledge of SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Module
- Agile / Scrum background
Sr. Java/Web Developer – 150278
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: Developer, Java
- Java/ J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, Struts, Servlets, XML, JPA, HTML, CSS, JUnit
- Apache/Tomcat
- Jaguar application server
- JBoss application server
- Hibernate
- Spring Framework
- Oracle SQL, Toad
- OOD
- 5 to 10 years developing OO applications on web, application, and database tiers
- Relational database design
- IDE – Eclipse, IntelliJIdea
- Source control tools, such as CVS, VSS, ClearCase
- UNIX/Sun Solaris
- RUP or equivalent development process, Agile preferred
- Rational or equivalent development tools
- Web Services
- Testing tools and methodology
- Photoshop
Junior Java/Web Developer – 150279
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: Developer, Java, Web Developer
- Java - 2 years
- J2EE - 2 years
- HTML - 2 years
- JavaScript - 2 years
- Oracle - 2 years
- Hibernate
- Spring
- Spring MVC
- JSP
- Velocity
Programmer Analyst – Junior .NET Developer – 150267
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: .NET, Analyst, Developer
- 1-3 years of Application Development experience. Prior experience in a technical support role preferred.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or closely related field.
- Strong background in computers and technology.
- Effective and polite oral and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of database design, access methods and relational data base concepts.
- Ability to work in a multi-tasked environment.
- Participate in 24X7 support rotation.
- MS SQL Server T-SQL, SSRS, C#, ASP, ASP.NET, HTML, DNN, understanding of object-oriented application design and web application design.
Senior .NET Developer – 150257
Location: St. Louis, MO
Categories: C#, Developer
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of related experience.
- Health care experience strongly preferred; requires demonstrated understanding of business process as it relates to experience in the field.
- Strong working experience in C# and ASP.NET.
- Strong working knowledge of Java, JSP, PL/SQL, JavaScript, OOP/OOAD, XML, HTML, etc.
- Experience with Oracle or SQL Server.
- Experience with Web Services, messaging and stored procedures.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, related field or equivalent experience.