At Third Federal, named for five years in a row as “One of the Best Companies to Work For" in America by Fortune magazine, we look for associates who can help us fulfill our mission to help customers achieve the American dream of home ownership and financial security and provide value to our customers and our communities. We take a genuine interest in each of our associates – from their professional development to their health and wellness. We offer a pleasant customer service oriented work environment, competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package and career growth opportunities.

At Third Federal, you will find strength and stability in your career. Nearly 15 percent of our associates have been with the company for 25 years or more and, in the more than 80 year history of our company, we have never had layoffs.

This position is responsible for developing application enhancements and maintaining application-specific critical infrastructure with a particular emphasis on the Loan Origination System. Specific experience with Dark Matter’s Empower is a strong preference to be able to provide value in this role quickly. Development efforts include changes directly within Empower, as well as ancillary development to support loan origination activities, including interfaces with third-party vendor systems. The role also includes work that falls between purely development activities and infrastructure activities; these tasks include server- and workstation-related maintenance as well as collaborating with the teams that perform part of these duties today.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of developers to enhance, maintain, and support loan origination in Dark Matter’s Empower
• Work to enhance and improve deployments of Empower and our delivery pipeline
• Work closely with infrastructure, networking, firewall, security, and sys admin teams to understand our environment; find ways to speed our application infrastructure deployment and maintenance while maintaining appropriate levels of security
• Work closely with team of business analysts to communicate needed changes and monitor progress
• Provide support for application-specific services and interfaces to third parties
• Recommend improvements to make organization more effective; work closely with management to get support for these improvements
• Perform root cause analysis for errors
• Understand limitations, both technical and otherwise, in our organization and work within these limitations
• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting
• Assist with building automated testing

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or comparable work experience
• Experience with Dark Matter’s Empower is strongly desired
• Desire to learn, both industry standard tools and our environment
• Proven excellence in relationship building, ability to thrive in a team environment
• Good experience with a CI/CD pipeline tool; Azure DevOps a plus
• Good working knowledge of PowerShell or equivalent scripting tool
• Good working knowledge of servers, networking, and network infrastructure, or willingness to learn
• Good working knowledge of firewalls and security tools, or willingness to learn
• Good working knowledge of SQL
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage concurrent projects and issues
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills; ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Willingness to take ownership of support issues
• Shows initiative; motivated to make a difference

Third Federal is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, gender identification or sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status or any other classification protected under law.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)