Lead Developer IT

Vistra • Irving, TX

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Developer, IT Technical Integration & Development will be responsible for providing application maintenance and/or development of Vistra Corporation IT shared applications supporting Vistra and ensuring compliance with performance and availability metrics to support business objectives.

Requirements

• Experienced gained through college degree programs and/or certifications in business, information systems or computer science with an emphasis in information technology or equivalent experience.
• Eight plus years of IT application maintenance and/or development experience
• Retail utility industry knowledge.
• Experience with the Inovis application.
• Experience with interface development
• Experience in , Java, XML and Maximo technical and functional application.
• Strong experience with DB2 database

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement enhancements to shared applications, as well as provide on-going support for shared applications supporting Vistra Corp; understand and deliver on the functional support needs of Vistra as they relate to the shared applications; provide guidance and leadership to other technical developers on team.
• Follow application support and development processes, standards, metrics, monitoring and reporting in order to ensure the shared applications are available, responsive, and achieving business outcomes and objectives; recommend changes to support continuous improvement.
• Work closely with application vendors, service providers, and internal teams applicable to the shared applications to define and achieve key performance indicators and Service Level Agreements with a collaborative spirit.
• Participate in application development projects as necessary; participate in the development of shared application development business cases; evaluate and make recommendations regarding shared application service providers and products.
• Provide input to short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure the application architecture for the shared applications meets existing and future needs and industry standards; execute disaster recovery and business continuity test plans and evaluate results as necessary.
• Conduct research and evaluate market insight of current and future technology innovations and forecasts regarding shared applications and make recommendations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed