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Position Summary
The Applications Programmer Analyst III participates in all functions of technology applications development life cycles utilizing TNC's basic project management disciplines. Activities of this position include, but are not limited to:
Analyze and document end-user and technology-user business requirements for technology projects with medium degree of complexity at varying levels of impact on organization-wide initiatives.
Design and develop new technology systems and solutions according to system requirements following TNC methodology and development best practices.
Act as lead technologist on technology application maintenance projects related to application upgrades, conversions, and modifications. Perform tasks assigned as required to complete project including design, development, running specific programs, generating reports, and analyzing results.
Provide support for production problems as assigned.
Act as quality assurance analyst to conduct peer reviews and validate programmer analyst work done for moderately complex systems before their release to production in all phases of the project life cycle.
Acts as Project or Technical Lead as assigned. Develop accurate project plans with realistic estimations and provide technical expertise to team members and users to help resolve complex project-related problems.
Assist technical support staff, Business Support Center staff, Project Managers, and users as needed by providing support for business applications including diagnosing problems requiring analysis and troubleshooting. Design and implement solutions for corrective action in consultation with user community and TIS support group.
Assist with data standards compliance and best practices to facilitate integration between systems within TIS and its external partners.
Assists lead of a Center of Excellence to acquire, maintain, expand, and convey knowledge of relevant technologies and businesses supported and serve as a mentor to other team members. Attend and possibly conduct training classes to maintain knowledge base of current technology. Review technical publications on pertinent topics.
When required, assist in developing end-user training and end-user and technical documentation on new and existing systems according to TNC standards.
Perform Administrative tasks as assigned by the Program Director of Applications and Programming Solutions.

Desired Skills & Experience (education and years of experience, key competencies)

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
3 years of progressive experience in Information Technology field including at least 2 years of recent relevant experience with full life-cycle technology application development.
Experience with Web development experience using Visual studio 2010/2008 (C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint 2010, MVC, .NET frame work , jQuery, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, XPATH, JavaScript
Experience with T-SQL, data modeling, procedure, function, trigger using MS SQL Server database.
Experience with SharePoint 2010 development in Visual Studio, building custom user controls and web parts is a plus.

For more information and to apply, please visit www.nature.org/careers and search for job ID# 40833 in the keyword search. Deadline to apply is February 25, 2013. The Nature Conservancy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.