Engineer III This position is responsible for software Governance for application rationalization, working with software providers to manage monthly Governance meetings and Quarterly Business Review meetings, developing/managing balanced scorecard metrics to measure and report on the quality of relationship with software providers. Ability to provide guidance and develop/implement best practices for software asset management methodologies. Position Responsibilities: System Engineering * Partner with clients and technical resources to create, design, implement and or maintain applications in the appropriate environment. * Create estimates (when applicable) for System Design, Development, Testing and / or Implementation. * Identify potential system issues in projects, request fulfillment and/or individual assignment. * Understand the Infrastructure (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) models or other models needed for role. * Conduct testing as defined in department standards. * Monitor system performance and troubleshoot alerts from commercial, open source and locally developed monitoring tools as required. * Provide system failure analysis and recovery recommendations. * Participate in Business continuity planning and testing as required. Perform Hardware/software configuration. * Serve as liaison with non-technical people, operations personnel, and/or field service personnel; interact directly with business partners to negotiate solutions and implementation specifics. * Partner with application developers to deploy and operate our systems. * Automate and streamline operations and processes. * Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. * Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test and production environments. * Establishes/recommends policies and procedures for system use and services. * Responsible for good inter-personal and communication skills; capable of writing proposals and papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to customer/client audiences or making professional presentations, work closely with upper management. Technical Consulting * Perform technical analysis and make recommendation on small to medium initiatives with medium complexity. Explain technical solution to client and technical resources. * Serve as a point of escalation for technical and general troubleshooting for small to simple incidents. Support * Determination and resolution of root cause behind reported problems and issues. Development and/or maintenance of system documentation. Proactive maintenance toward select systems. Position Qualifications * Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university OR High School Diploma or GED AND 6 years of technology experience * 2 years of integrating or building technical solutions * 2 years of managing medium size projects * 2 years of leading collaboration discussions to solve business problems * 1 year of experience with replacing mainframe applications with better business case based software alternatives * 1 year of experience with the design/development/implementation and use of custom Agile methodology * 4 years of IT design/development/maintenance of large complex IT projects experience * This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled