Who we are:

The Lacek Group is a collection of brilliant, passionate, intellectually curious, and unique people who work on the leading edge of customer engagement. We come to work every day to help our clients build longer-lasting, more profitable customer relationships. We listen, collaborate and celebrate together. We treat each other with kindness and respect. And we believe different perspectives drive innovation, fuel creativity and make our business and communities better. 

Together with our parent company Ogilvy, one of the most creative and effective agencies in the world, we believe diversity drives smarter work for our clients — and better business for us. We believe inclusion is essential, and we welcome all who are ready to join our push for positive change. Every single day. 

What we need:

The Applications Developer position supports data-driven, web based, and other interactive digital client services by providing expertise in software application design, development, testing, and maintenance.

What you’ll do:

• Accountable to the VP of Application Development and Information Systems for their overall performance and conformance with company policies and development standards and practices
• Directly accountable to internal client account stakeholders for day-to-day performance, ability to meet commitments, and quality of communication and of work product
• Use expertise to provide technical direction and support during the planning of new data-driven initiatives through activities such as: feasibility assessments, business requirement reviews, solution design and documentation, project scoping and estimating as well as data format analysis and data auditing
• Adhere to company and departmental policies and assist in the creation of technical standards and practices
• Own key operational processes and systems that are assigned to the developer, including design, development, testing, debugging, scheduling, monitoring, and failure response. This may occasionally require commitments of after-hours time
• Provide a consistently high degree of competency in the field of software development, with a special focus on the specific technical proficiencies described below
• In addition to their relationships with their immediate supervisors, Applications Developers must also work closely with: peers in the development team, members of the internal IS organization (system administrators, DBAs and other support personnel), project team members, project managers and client account leadership

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of programming experience
• Understanding of the standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Understanding of software development team roles and responsibilities: Project Managers, Business Analysts, QA Analysts, Tech Leads, Developers
• Effective task/time management
• Coding standards and other development best practices and methodologies.
• Working knowledge of PHP7.4+ and MS SQL Server 2016+
• Object-oriented programming (OOP) development experience and UML modeling a plus
• MVC Patterns and Frameworks (Laravel 8+, Yii 1.x, CodeIgniter, etc.)
• Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and XML
• XSLT experience a strong plus
• Working knowledge of jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX
• Working knowledge of APIs, JSON, SOAP, and other web services (consumption/design/creation)
• X/HTML, CSS, and XML/XSL/XSLT
• Microsoft SQL Server 2016+, including database modeling, creation, TSQL development (procedures, triggers, functions), optimization and troubleshooting
• Other web development frameworks (ASP.NET, J2EE, Ruby on Rails) a plus
• Other scripting/programming languages (Python, AngularJS, ReactJS, VueJS, etc.) a plus
• Social Media consumption and development experience a strong plus. Ability to connect to leading social media networks such as Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, LinkedIn highly desired
• 3rd Party CMS Platform experience desired, but not required such as WordPress, Drupal, Craft, etc.
• Highly functional interpersonal skills. Ability to maintain effective working relationships with team members and project stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to synthesize, abstract, and translate technical issues for non-technical audiences
• Detail orientation
• Organized and disciplined approach to complex problem solving
• Proactive willingness to assume additional duties as needed

Competencies:

• Adaptability
• Agency Citizenship
• Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Quality Orientation
• Managing Work
• Stress Tolerance
• Technical/Professional Knowledge & Skills

You’ll love working at The Lacek Group – smart people, great environment, engaging culture, comprehensive benefits and fantastic growth opportunities. Your confidential inquiry is encouraged.

The Lacek Group

900 2nd Avenue South, Suite 1800

Minneapolis, MN 55402

The Lacek Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer