Our Company

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States. Our family of brands are Williams Sonoma, Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn teen, pottery barn kids, Rejuvenation, Mark & Graham, west elm, or Outward. These brands are among the best known and most respected in the industry. We offer beautifully-designed, stylish and functional products for every area of the home, including the kitchen, living room, bedroom, home office, closet, laundry room and even outdoor spaces. We've seen some big changes since our first brick-and-mortar store opened more than half of a century ago. What hasn't changed is our passion for high-quality products, functional design, outstanding customer service, and enhancing the lives of our customers and the communities where we operate. Today, we're a multi-brand, multi-channel, global enterprise supported by state-of-the-art technology and some of the most talented teams in retailing - and we're always looking for new energy and ideas.

We hope you're interested in building a home with us. Even if you don't feel that you meet every requirement listed in this job description, we still encourage you to apply.

About the Manufacturing Team 

You will be part of the Manufacturing Engineering – Supply Chain group, supporting our mission of creating a world of possibilities for the business by building robust systems which can scale to meet current and future business needs. We are critical in providing a robust ERP system for manufacturing of products for various brands. We are looking for a highly dedicated individual who can take ownership and accountability of the domain to deliver configurations/code as needed that meet Williams Sonoma’s high standards for software delivery.

Overview of the Lead Software Engineer Role

You would be leading WSI’s D365 F&O Application which focuses on the Item, Location and Vendor Portal modules. You will design, develop, and implement custom solutions within Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. This role requires in-depth technical and strong interpersonal skills to partner closely with key stakeholders across business and technology teams to deliver business functional requirements with a customer first focus. You will leverage previous software development experience to engineer scalable and extensible solutions.

Responsibilities

Participating in the analysis of Operations business process, and providing expert guidance, creative solutions, best approaches, and practices. Leading functionally and technically throughout the project lifecycle to provide expert guidance to ensure both functional and technical capabilities of Dynamics 365 F&O meet business needs. Maintaining expertise with D365 F&O software, release schedules, underlying technical architecture, and ISV solutions. Building business/ops relationships and becoming a trusted advisor. Providing mentorship and coaching to other team members to ensure their continued growth. Providing proactive guidance to the leadership in anticipation of new releases and solutions from Microsoft and other third-party software vendors. Performing the technical design/implementations for all Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Workflows components. Reviewing technical architecture deliverables throughout development to ensure quality and requirements traceability. Maintaining technical responsibility for the technical aspects of the project environments. Identifying and communicating any cross-area or cross-release issues that affect other project areas. Ensuring adherence to all quality management plans and standards by participating in testing. Validating the design with the stakeholders to ensure that the design satisfies the requirements. Ensuring security practices are used and applied throughout the engagement’s lifecycle. Ensuring solutions are scalable and extensible for future needs by running performance tests. Working in close coordination with the production support teams to ensure stability of the system during peak demands.  Mentoring other junior software engineers in the team onsite/offshore. Building operational readiness and alerts/monitoring to help production support teams in their day-to-day activities.

Criteria

2+ years of experience with Microsoft D365F&O end-to-end (Implementation, Consulting and Development) with Enterprise clients, including interfacing and integration X++ development using extensions and custom service development in X++  Good understanding of functional capabilities of D365: Financials, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Project Management and Accounting Strong understanding of LCS (Life Cycle Services) and Azure DevOps Experience in other technologies such as SQL, Power BI along with knowledge of C# and the .Net framework. Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in the following technical areas: Data Management Framework (aka DIXF); PowerApps, Logic Apps, Common Data Service, and other Azure Services including Azure Functions, Azure Blob, and Table Storage, Azure Event Grid, Azure Service Bus, Azure API Management Understanding of Synchronous and Asynchronous integration patterns Experience in extension approach to customization versus over-layering Experience in Role-based security design and customization Extensible Data Security Experience in Report development and Power BI Experience in Code build and deployment via Visual Studio Team Services and Life Cycle Services Experience in D365 F&O environment deployment, LCS Excellent written and verbal communication skills Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer (MB-500) certification or equivalent experience strongly desired Azure certifications will be a plus

 

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This role is not eligible for relocation assistance.