Senior Applications Engineer

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda
Honda has a clear vision for the future, and its a joyful one.

We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals.
At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.

We strive to be a company that serves as a source of power that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize the joy and freedom of mobility by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a zero environmental footprint.
We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.
If your goals and values align with Hondas, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

The Senior Applications Engineer has the responsibility to provide strategic counsel to MSA leadership to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective systems and applications and/or services for all aspects of the organization. This role will also consult with internal architecture teams and Applications Principal Engineer within the MSA department to comply with application architectures and new standards, policies, procedures, best practices, and target state as it relates to the systems and applications

Key Accountabilities

Work with and provide counsel on strategic initiatives to a broad range of individual contributors (business analysts, project managers, software developers, architects, etc.) within the North America region.
Lead small and medium sized projects (medium complexity) to completion and provide consulting support while engaging multiple stakeholders both within North America region.
Lead the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of application solutions.
Implement and maintain current and target state application and database architectures.
Assist team lead with definition and management of application technology standards, guidelines, and processes to ensure best quality.
Consult with external application solution providers to ensure successful implementation and support of third-party application solutions.
Oversee end-to-end systems development life cycle management activities for small to medium sized initiatives.
Lead and participate in the maintenance, optimization, and configuration tuning of manufacturing IT production applications.
Lead and participate in the provisioning, operation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery of manufacturing IT production applications.
Lead and participate in application Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and execution in accordance with RPO/RTO and defined SLAs.
Assists with evaluation of emerging technologies.

Workstyle

Hybrid

At least 2 days per workweek at the local office

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Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Required Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems and/or equivalent industry experience.
Minimum 10 years IT experience with the following:
Developing enterprise level applications using OOP Concepts, Java, and Java EE (Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JNDI), Web Services (SOAP, WSDL), REST Web Services, Java Script, HTML, AJAX, jQuery and XML.
Developing reference architecture, principles, and standards.
Implementing designs by writing computer programs and repairing or updating existing programs.
Coding DeviceWise triggers for communicating with the PLCs.
Working with relational database technologies (SQL Server, DB2, etc.).
Developing and Managing WebSphere applications.
In-depth knowledge on Mfg. Line Control System. Strong ability to lead complex troubleshooting of Line Control System issues. Debugging programs when problems arise
This role is expected to play the Lead Application Developer/ SME role for Line control applications and systems.
Minimum 3 years of experience:
Modern concepts such as Microservices, Container-based development, DevOps, and Cloud deployment.
Developing applications using Angular framework
Working with PostgreSQL databases.
Desired skills:
Prefer to have someone with ~ 10+ years of manufacturing IT development and implementation experience to efficiently deliver high quality solution.
Good knowledge of data management, data integration, and database development techniques.
Ability to relate architectural decisions and recommendations to business needs.
Ability to regularly learn and adopt new technologies.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization and work with diverse project teams.
Demonstrated outstanding commitment to provide application solution to critical manufacturing needs, and to resolve high severity issue in a timely manner-during or outside of normal working window.

Benefits and Total Rewards

TOTAL REWARDS
Total Rewards:
Competitive base salary.
Annual Bonus
Overtime
Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision)
Paid time off, including vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and personal days
401(K) Plan with company match + additional contribution
Career Growth:
Advancement opportunities
Career mobility
Education reimbursement for continued learning
Training and Development programs
Additional Offerings:
Well-being program
Annual lifestyle bonus: $ 1K / year
Community service and engagement programs
Product programs
Free drinks onsite

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.

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