Senior Retail Applications Engineer

Guitar Center Stores • Westlake Village, CA

299d • $130,000 - $165,000

About The Position

The Guitar Center Company embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging our teammates to find their own individual sound. Our mission is to develop and nurture lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the joy that comes from creating music. We believe in putting our customers first, engaging with respect and integrity and fulfilling our mission with passion. The Guitar Center Company operates through several business divisions. Guitar Center is the world's largest retailer of guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, recording, live sound, DJ, and lighting equipment, with more than 290 stores across the United States. 2014 marked the milestone 50th anniversary of the Guitar Center Company as the organization continues to help people make music from coast to coast. E-Commerce brands Guitar Center, Musician's Friend and WWBW offer online sales of a broad selection of music products. The Music & Arts division operates more than 220 stores specializing in band & orchestral instruments for sale and rental, serving teachers, band directors, college professors, and students since 1952. AVDG and GCPro headline the enterprise audio-visual integration business, delivering a best-in-class commercial and residential customer experience.

Requirements

• Experience in architecture, design, development and support of Universe/Pick/Multi-value applications.
• Experience in database administration and support of Universe or other Multi-value databases.
• Working experience in UNIX, AIX, LINUX operating systems environments.
• Experience in and knowledge of AIX/UNIX basic commands.
• Experience in and knowledge of Rocket External Database Access (EDA) and Rocket Replication subsystems.
• 2+ years working experience using UniObjects.
• Proven track record of project delivery and solutions designs.

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years experience working in Retail POS systems.
• Knowledge of Payment system interfaces for credit card processing.
• Working experience in programming, coding in support of POS peripherals and other devices such as printers.
• Versed in multiple development languages is preferred.
• Working knowledge of Java, C, C# is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide systems development lifecycle functions including analysis, architecture, design, software development (including coding, testing, documentation, and implementation), and maintenance of both new and existing software applications.
• Provide database management functions, and responsible for data integrity of all the relevant databases.
• Responsible for tracking/reporting of time spent on projects or tasks and communicating this information to supervisor.
• Support application interfaces to/from AIX servers.
• Provide mentoring, leadership to other developers and support staff in project execution.
• Provide on-call support functions as needed.
• Provide additional support functions in terms of monitoring critical application processes, schedule processes, and user processes.
• Responsible for self-managing delivery of assigned tasks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers