Corporate - Avante Developer and Systems Administrator

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Job description

A major client of ours in the industrial machinery, supplies and equipment industry has a need for an Avante Developer (ERP) and Systems Administrator. This is a permanent position for their Latham, NY location.

Position Summary

The Avante Developer & Systems Administrator is a key role on the IT team and will be working on the current Avante 9 system and then transition to SAP S/4HANA. As an Avante Developer & Systems Administrator you will contribute and participate in analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and support of existing and new implementations in the Avante ERP environment. This includes improving the platform for the users and working on innovative efficiency improvements. In this position, you will work with both the IT team and our business teams. We are seeking someone who is interested in the opportunity to be directly part of day-to-day operations and support of Avante, and ultimately an ERP modernization to the SAP S/4HANA platform. As such, technical knowledge, adaptability, willingness to learn, responsiveness, and interpersonal skills are each critical elements of success in this position.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

Gather requirements to ensure the accuracy and utility of program functionality by collaborating with users and other IT staff

Analyze the existing interface requirements, and design solutions with functional resources

and/or system owners and users

Ensure business requirements are included and appropriately tested

Write clean, concise, robust, and well-documented code

Contribute to maturing development processes and assisting teammates

Implement configuration and code changes to meet defined requirements

Perform unit testing, and assist with the development of functional/technical design documents

Help troubleshoot and resolve any issues discovered through System Test or QA/UAT efforts and support knowledge transfer efforts

Support end user initial production support, correct defects revealed by production operations

Responsible for designing, developing, and supporting various new and existing Avante application backend development

Maintaining awareness of industry best practices and standards

Collaborate with the team on larger features as well as work independently on smaller ones

Understand technical frameworks and landscape to provide explanations of various alternatives

Ability to work with Avante Support and/or outside consultants to support the Avante application

Transition to SAP S4/HANA management &development upon retirement of Avante ERP

Ability to work nights, weekends, or holidays as business priorities require

Ability to work in an ambiguous environment; resourcefully and independently

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and work experience

At least 5+ years of total development experience in ERP platforms

Proficiency with relational databases including writing stored procedures, queries, and reports

Understanding of and ability to demonstrate object-oriented programming principles.

Exposure and depth with UniData systems preferred

Experience with SAP S4/HANA platform desired, but not required

Capable of researching complex problems and finding solution

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