Lead Software Engineer - Python - Gurgaon @ Gartner

• The Candidate should be an intellectually curious life-long learner with a resilient positive attitude and passion for innovation and growth.

What you ll do

• Implement, Administer, Maintain, and Support Financial applications and related systems core to Gartner s operational excellence.

• Design, Develop, Test, Implement and Maintain critical financial integrations, extensions, and add-ons to empower Gartner s continued growth.

• Work with business and technical teams to exceed internal customer expectations.

• Ensure system implementations meet the highest quality, security, and compliance standards

• Utilize best practices, standard procedures, and techniques to develop and configure applications.

• Maintain a positive and productive working relationship with internal customers and peers.

• Provide daily operational support for production systems including providing on-call support

• Write and maintain clear documentation that describes installation and operating procedures.

• Present applications, integrations, and prototypes for architectural guidance board review.

• Maintain a strong working hands-on knowledge of the programming languages and tools relevant to our systems.

• Conduct SDLC activities compliant with standard industry methods such as agile and waterfall, as well as the fundamentals of requirement specifications, design, coding and testing of business applications systems.

• Understand the interdependencies and interrelationships across the application architecture including applications not in their direct area of responsibility

• Analyze and interpret business requirements to define and develop technical requirements/specifications.

• Participate in technical design, contributing insights and ideas

• Successfully troubleshoot application problems independently or in a team setting.

• Comply with relevant corporate standards and policies

• Collaborate directly with offshore team members to coordinate work, complete development, mentor peers, and learn.

• Learn and navigate the structure and basic processes of the IT organization, including the roles of IT colleagues and the information and/or resources needed to achieve business goals.

• Learn and maintain a strong working knowledge of multiple business areas and the applications that support them

• Maintain a solid understanding of the industry and the products and services of Gartner and the value we provide our internal and external customers.

What you ll need

• Typical candidates will possess 6+ years of relevant experience and BS in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent experience

• Must possess a basic understanding of typical core business accounting principles, practices, and terminology (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Intercompany Transactions, Collections processes, Procurement, Revenue Recognition, etc.)

• Demonstrated ability to design and develop financial system integrations and functionality with a major accounting package and/or ERP.

• Demonstrated recent and relevant writing software with a modern programming language such as Python, or Java.

• Demonstrated experience with data transmission and transformation technologies such as web services (SOAP or REST), as well as data encoding methods XML and/or EDI.

• Demonstrated experience developing strong complex SQL queries against a modern DBMS platform (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL)

• Experience building reports using an industry standard reporting tool (PowerBI, Business Objects, OBIEE, Discoverer, Essbase)

• Experience with application development methods utilizing AWS cloud technologies (Lambda / SQS).

Exceptionally qualified candidates may also possess

• Experience with PERL and shell scripting in Linux / Unix platform.