Solutions Engineer II

Summary

Brookdale is a nationwide senior living company that provides residential, clinical, and corporate support services. The Solutions Engineer II will build, configure, test, implement, and support scalable enterprise applications while contributing across the full software delivery lifecycle and collaborating with Agile teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, configure, develop, test, document, and implement new and existing applications and solutions to deliver high quality, scalable solutions to meet business objectives and operational requirements
• Support application/architecture design, design patterns and development technology/standards
• Support the defined change management guidelines and corporate regulations
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to support business objectives and continual improvement of team dynamics. Identify areas for improvement in the development environment, best practices and team dynamics
• Participate in identification and resolution of application and technical issues. Identify and communicate lessons learned
• Adaptive to emerging technologies. Strong desire to learn and master new technologies
• Proficient in adapting to different technology interfaces and frameworks
• Focused on delivery of high quality solutions and improvements in customer experience and operational excellence. Awareness of scalability and enterprise thinking. Awareness of applying emerging technologies to business problems

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or other related area, or equivalent experience is required
• Minimum 2 years of related experience is required
• Experience with database technologies and CRUD concepts
• Basic skills in database tuning
• Experience with unit, integration and acceptance testing
• Basic skills in unit testing packages and concepts, automated testing and TDD
• Professional experience using Application design patterns and selection
• Successful experience working in an Agile team environment, preferably Scrum, as an actively involved team member
• Supportive of team members and other teams through effective collaboration utilizing acceptable verbal, written and presentation skills
• Mastery in at least one development language used at Brookdale with basic understanding of at least one other development language used at Brookdale to the extent minimal assistance is required to perform medium complexity tasks
• Proven knowledge in at least 1 Brookdale business area and basic understanding of others
• Ability and willingness to understand the business as well as our customers
• Preferably Scrum

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or other related area, or equivalent experience is required
• Minimum 2 years of related experience is required
• Experience with database technologies and CRUD concepts
• Basic skills in database tuning
• Experience with unit, integration and acceptance testing
• Basic skills in unit testing packages and concepts, automated testing and TDD
• Professional experience using Application design patterns and selection
• Successful experience working in an Agile team environment, preferably Scrum, as an actively involved team member
• Supportive of team members and other teams through effective collaboration utilizing acceptable verbal, written and presentation skills
• Mastery in at least one development language used at Brookdale with basic understanding of at least one other development language used at Brookdale to the extent minimal assistance is required to perform medium complexity tasks
• Proven knowledge in at least 1 Brookdale business area and basic understanding of others
• Ability and willingness to understand the business as well as our customers

Nice to Haves

• preferably Scrum

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement
• Professional development opportunities
• Ongoing programs catered to overall health and wellness
• Full suite of health insurance, life insurance and retirement plans, varying by employment status
• Part- and full-time eligible: Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• Part- and full-time eligible: 401(k)
• Part- and full-time eligible: Associate assistance program
• Part- and full-time eligible: Employee discounts
• Part- and full-time eligible: Referral program
• Part- and full-time eligible: Early access to earned wages for hourly associates outside of California
• Part- and full-time eligible: Optional voluntary benefits including ID theft protection and pet insurance
• Full-time only: Paid Time Off
• Full-time only: Paid holidays
• Full-time only: Company-provided life insurance
• Full-time only: Adoption benefit
• Full-time only: Disability coverage, short- and long-term
• Full-time only: Flexible Spending Accounts
• Full-time only: Health Savings Account
• Full-time only: Optional life and dependent life insurance
• Full-time only: Optional voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance, and legal plan
• Full-time only: Tuition reimbursement
• Advance of naturalization Form N-400 application fees up to $725, less applicable taxes and withholding, for qualified associates who have been with the company for at least a year
• Extensive corporate support including a robust training program