Senior Application Development Lead

  • Cork
  • Proofpoint
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.Corporate Overview Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.The Role The Senior Application Development Lead role will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, developing, & documenting specifications & solutions for projects with focus on the Microsoft D365 ERP system. This position will also directly work with Global Accounting & Finance to respond to team inquiries on related financial systems timely, troubleshoot financial system issues and analyze current business and financial practices. The Sr. Application Developer will act as a liaison between finance business groups and IT teams and be able to explain technical solutions to senior leadership in concise and meaningful ways. This position requires a highly motivated individual with strong analytical skills, intellectual curiosity, and excellent communication skills. The ability to work well with other developers and stakeholders in a dynamic environment, think creatively, work independently, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously is required.Your day-to-day Developing and analyzing project functional requirements, test plans, and evaluating test results to determine compliance with established business processes.Analyze requirements, develop technical design specifications, develop packages, APIs, extensions, workflows, integrations and custom reports.Write SQL queries/scripts to convert data into formats supported on the D365 platform.Modify existing codes to optimize / maintain D365 applications.Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including discovery, analysis, requirements definition, solution design, configuration, code development, testing, deployment and support.Share and develop excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with strong testing, debugging and analytical skillsProvide technical assistance by responding to inquiries from end-users and/or technical staff regarding application, system, & reporting issues.Must be able to identify, troubleshoot, solve, and manage systems problems under time constraints with minimal supervision.Customer focus and confident in making critical decisions independently in a fast paced and demanding environmentExperience in troubleshooting and driving technical investigations to determine root causes of issuesSolid communication and cross-discipline collaboration skills, working with other IT professionals, business stakeholders and senior level managementExperience in creating requirement specifications based on Architecture/Design /Detailing of ProcessesResponsible to work with 3rd party vendors to understand and resolve open system issues, develop and align on architectural design decisions and set delivery expectationsOutlining and administering training on systems when needed and create training documentation for new projects.Administer and support business applications and integrations: Concur, Blackline, Zuora RevPro, Atlas reporting, Power BI, Fastpath, Avalara, SKG Treasury and other financial systems.What you bring to the team BA/BS degree in Finance, Computer Science, Technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.Dynamics 365 F&O development experience required.Experience working with financial related applications and working with vendors and internal customers to resolve and respond to financial system issues and inquiries.Development skills in X++ and customization patterns using extensions and event handlers preferredExperience with AX/D365 report development and Power BI including QA ability. Experience with Power Apps and Power Automate is a plusData migration experience using data entities with Data management framework (previously known as DIXF).Experience with integration of Dynamics 365 F&O with other applications using OData, custom webservices, SOAP. Experience implementing EDI interfaces is a plus.Additional development skills in Java, .NET and C++ and MSSQL experience are a plus.Complete working understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC).Ability to analyze and troubleshoot Dynamics 365 related production and integration issues on a day-to-day basis.Experience in multiple Finance functional areas (e.g. accounting, record-to-report, business intelligence, payroll, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash) and solid track record in working on cross-functional team projects.Good understanding of D365 change and release management with knowledge in code deployments using deployable packages and knowledge in D365 database restores.Experience in managing D365 environments with solid understanding of LCS and Azure DevOps.Ability to manage user access, roles, privileges and custom security enhancements.Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong analytical skills, and ability to deal with ambiguity in a rapidly changing business environment.Availability to provide On-Call and After-Hours support.Why ProofpointProtecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpointIf you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!