.net Senior Engineer T3

Alight Software Engineer Position

At Alight, we believe a company's success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to "Be Alight."

It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting

• Create/update the initial coding estimates.
• Determine the detailed tasks required to create the code for a complex and high priority issues based on project specifications.
• Support the team in project planning activities and in evaluating risks.
• Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status.

Design

• Create a detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) with possible alternate solutions.
• Fix the detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) for the comments received from analysts and submit the design to the Software Engineers/Tr. Software Engineers to begin code development.

Development & Support

• Work with the team to clarify and improve the design as required.
• If applicable, design the database.
• Build the code of high-priority and complex systems according to the technical specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards.
• Use code management processes and tools to avoid versioning problems.
• Ensure that the code does not affect the functioning of any external or internal systems.
• Monitor the stage and state of assigned piece of code throughout the development process.
• Review the application code created by Software Engineer Trainees/Software Engineers to ensure compliance to defined standards. Recommend changes to the code as required.
• Perform peer reviews of code to ensure it meets coding and efficiency standards.

Testing & Debugging

• Write and execute the unit test cases and test each piece to verify the basic functionality before comprehensive testing.
• Perform peer review of unit test cases.
• Attend the Test Design walkthroughs to help verify that the plans and conditions will test all functions and features effectively.
• Debug and resolve any project, code, or interface-level problems.
• Fix function testing issues and/or client issues.
• Test high priority and high complexity functionality/issues with support as needed

Documentation

• Create documentation for the code as per defined standards and processes.
• Perform a peer review of the technical documentation for the code as per defined standards and processes

Process Management

• Adhere to the project and support processes.
• Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies, such as the SDLC cycle for different project sizes.
• Participate in root cause analysis

Coaching and Mentoring

• Coach Trainee Software Engineer /Software Engineers in the proper visual and efficiency standards, approach to unit testing, and appropriate content for documentation.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert for the internal team on areas such as system functionality and approach including solving systems operations issues, performance initiatives. Leverage existing knowledge and expertise in multiple ways.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Proficient in at least one of the following:
  • C#
  • Asp.Net Core, Web Forms, Web APIs, Asp.Net MVC
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Angular 2+
  • T-SQL
  • Strong understanding of OOPS concepts
• Experience with:
  • Various common JavaScript libraries
  • Responsive design
  • Creating and consuming web services, Web API, or WCF
  • Secure website design and development
  • Application architecture and design patterns
  • MS SQL Server
  • Writing Stored Procedures, triggers, functions, designing db schema
  • Proficiency with code versioning tool like Git
  • Entity Framework
  • Creating interfaces for communication between different applications

Nice to Have

• Experience with Visual Studio 2019/2022
• Experience with SQL Server 2016/2019/2022
• Experience with automated unit testing and integration testing
• Experience with graceful degradation and/or progressive enhancement websites.
• Strong understanding of XML and JSON
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services (SQS,S3,SNS,ECS etc)

Knowledge:

• 3 - 6 Years of experience in analyzing and understanding application storyboards and/or use cases and develop functional application modules
• Come up with approaches for a given problem statement
• Design, build and maintain efficient and reusable C#.net core code
• Design, build and maintain Microsoft .Net Web based applications
• Fix identified defects or observations that are potential impacts or risks for the functionality
• Ensure best possible performance and quality of the application using project and standard best practices
• Help maintain code quality using project quality standard (or using tools)
• Design and develop web user interfaces (good to know frameworks such as bootstrap)
• Debug and Troubleshoot problems in existing code
• Develop unit test cases and perform unit testing
• Work on creating database tables, stored procedures, functions etc

Education and Experience:

Education: BE Computers, IT /MCA / MSc IT, Computer Science

Experience: 3 - 6 Years of experience in analyzing and understanding application storyboards and/or use cases and develop functional application modules.

Other Requirements:

Consider other specific requirements essential to the successful performance of position responsibilities and accountabilities, e.g., travel. Identify the frequency of action and weight involved with the physical demands of essential functions performed by the position, if applicable. Occasional 0-33% of time; Frequent – 34-66% of time; Constant – 67-100% of time)

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it's important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options.

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight's employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.

At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work