Principal Software Engineer [T500-27626]

About Ferguson:

Since 1953, Ferguson has been a source of quality supplies for a variety of industries. Together We Build Better infrastructure, better homes and better businesses. We exist to make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful, and sustainable. We proactively solve problems, adapt and grow to continuously serve our customers, communities and each other. Ferguson is proud to provide best-in-class products, service and capabilities across the following industries: Commercial/Mechanical, Facilities Supply, Fire and Fabrication, HVAC, Industrial, Residential Trade, Residential Building and Remodel, Waterworks and Residential Digital Commerce. Ferguson has approximately 36,000 associates across 1,700 locations. Ferguson is a community of proud associates who operate with the shared purpose of building something meaningful. You will build a career that you are proud of, at a company you can believe in.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build an understanding of Trilogie, our custom ERP.
• Design and develop applications and software tools to automate, improve or change business processes and procedures.
• Involved in project from startup through implementation to ensure all aspects of the technology plan is accounted for, understood, defined and executed successfully.
• Following Ferguson Software Development Lifecycle, design and build software solutions to address system issues.
• Work with Business Systems Analysts and Product Owners to address requirement questions.
• Work closely with Business Systems Analysts to design scalable solutions to problems.
• Work with Administration Team to design scalable application environments.
• Work with other team members on medium and large-sized projects.
• Work with peers, team leads and supervisors in a collaborative and shared-learning environment
• Work with third party software providers to ensure solutions meet the needs of Ferguson.
• Perform unit testing procedures.
• Continue to expand development skill sets.
• Provide estimates and meet deadlines.
• Complete peer code reviews.
• Collaborate with team members to deliver software to Ferguson operational teams.
• Share knowledge.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Extensive experience in Unibasic / Unidata / UniVerse or other Pick based languages.
• Experience building interactive screens.
• Experience building programs that interact with API / Web Services.
• Experience interacting with Oracle or SQL Server databases.
• Building phantom processes.
• Experience working in a multi-server environment.
• Writing / tuning code in a high transaction environment.
• Designing and building dictionaries to support multi-valued file system.
• Experience working with multi-level files.
• Experience working with triggers.
• Other desired skills:
• Ability to write complex UniQuery statements.
• Quality Assurance skills.
• Using APIs.
• Experience with Unix and Linux.
• Excel & data manipulation.
• Experience working with relational databases, Oracle, SQL Server.
• Ability to communicate optimally to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written formats.
• Utilize Git and GitHub for standard source code management and participation in code reviews.
• Contribute to existing CI/CD pipelines to support automated software builds, testing, and deployment.????
• Familiarity with fundamental AI and Machine Learning concepts and experience integrating with AI services or utilizing AI powered development tools.