Job Description

OVERVIEW

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE:

The Senior Analyst is responsible for solutioning, designing, developing, testing, and supporting technical activities related to IBM Order Management,  Inventory and Store engagement Systems. They work alongside talented Technical Leads, Architects, Software Engineers, and Quality Engineers in our highly collaborative environment to deliver high quality solutions on time and on budget.  This position plays a key role in establishing, executing and supporting business critical systems.

YOU WILL DO ALL OF THIS BY:

• Development - Create Java based extensions of Sterling OMS. Partner with other technical teams (middleware, database, infrastructure, etc.), create interface documents and mappings to ensure that the OMS is built in a Service Oriented Architecture manner.  Contributes to the designs, development, testing, and documentation of complex programs.  Assesses own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work. Mentors less experienced colleagues as required
• Application Support – Maintains application support processes and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures and SLAs. Uses application management software and tools to investigate issues, collect performance statistics and create reports.
• Configuration Management – Applies tools, techniques and processes to track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes related to the configuration items.
• Requirements Definition & Management - Uses established techniques as directed to identify current problems and elicit, specify and document business functional, data and non-functional requirements.  Reviews operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions in new or changed processes.
• Solution Definition – Define and document highly scalable solution to meet cross functional business requirements. Impact assessment and estimation for the solutions and seeking necessary approval from enterprise approval board.
• Development Testing – Develop using functional and non-functional requirements, Functional specifications and process flows. Reviews test results and provide reports on progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with the overall project.  Identifies process improvements and contributes to corporate testing standards and definition of best practice.
• Incident Management – Undertakes the identification, registration and categorization of incidents.  Gathers information to enable incident resolution and promptly escalates incidents as appropriate. Maintains records and advises relevant persons of actions taken.
• Change Management - Assesses analyses, creates, documents, presents and implements changes based on requests for change.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, develop and configure project deliverables for IBM OMS and Inventory modules
• Analyze, troubleshoot and fix functional, deployment or systemic issues with enterprise software applications
• Work on development of prototypes and technology deliverables that are consistent with defined development principles, standards, methodologies and best practices.
• Define and promote processes, policies, standards and procedures to assure compliance with corporate and regulatory policies.
• Develop and maintain artifacts in the Development Library.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and market trends within the retail space and makes recommendations to align with the business strategic initiatives.
• Manage the Ulta development landscape for IBM OMS Application
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for production issues
• Participate in Outage Calls and Root Cause Analysis for the problems
• Participate, and document requirements, design, and test plans within sessions for project, enhancement, or break/fix work in supply chain area
• Creates, maintains, and leads coordination for documentation such as technical specifications, mapping documents and other artifacts in development process

ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or applicable work experience
• 5+ years of experience in developing and supporting IBM OMS Application
• 3+ years of programming experience in Java with strong Object Oriented design skills
• Strong experience in Core Java constructs, objects, classes, interfaces and design patterns
• Experience in providing highly scalable IT solutions in Order management Area
• Strong knowledge in Inventory module/IBM inventory solutions and Hands on experience in investigating production issues
• Experience in developing and supporting IBM store engagement app, and Call center app would be desirable
• Exposure to IBM OMS - Commerce on Cloud (Coc), Next Gen OMS application and Inventory visibility application would be huge plus
• Any experience working in retail or high-volume industries and exposure to Retail Omni channel order fulfillment domain is huge plus
• Exposure to ANGULAR (AngularJS) frameworks, and Cordova app development is preferred
• Working knowledge of CDT and code deployment process
• Experience working with Jira and Bit bucket
• Experience in XML, XSD, SOAP and REST services.
• Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of relational database like DB2, Oracle, SQLDB, etc.
• Experience in Messaging systems - MQ/JMS Systems
• Use of version control management such of SVN, CVS, or GIT. GIT is preferred.
• Experience with application development and system architecture design.
• Good presentation skill
• Proactive and able to catch issues before failures
• Possess a strong work ethic; takes pride in producing a quality product
• Work with production support and project consultants in an onshore / offshore model
• Support off-hours production issues and code deployments as needed
• Minimal travel required (training/conferences)

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At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.