Job ID: 11404
Location: Owatonna, Minnesota
Category: IT
Employment Type: Individual Consulting
Date Added: 03/25/2026
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: On-Site
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled IT Systems Developer with a passion for leveraging technology to solve business challenges. As a senior member of a highly collaborative support-and-enhancement team, you will improve business processing efficiency through enhancements, technical support, and process improvements. Our technology stack includes Java with the Spring Framework, OutSystems, SQL Server, and Tableau in addition to many other technologies. The ideal candidate brings a strong technical aptitude, with the ability to quickly learn both the business domain and additional technologies and contribute to ensure high-quality outcomes. Strong candidates take ownership of results, navigate ambiguity confidently, and work effectively in a team setting.
Responsibilities
Support & Development
- Analyze system behavior, identify root causes of issues across multiple integrated systems, and collaborate with technical teams to drive resolutions.
- Monitor and analyze patterns in support issues; propose and implement preventative measures.
- Educate and empower stakeholders and Help Desk staff to resolve common production issues faster.
- Design and implement, configuration changes, and integrations aligned to coding and architectural standards.
- Contribute to technical design discussions; document solution approaches and impacts on upstream/downstream systems.
- Identify and implement support automation and process improvements.
- Develop test scenarios and cases; conduct unit, system, regression, and acceptance testing.
- Create, maintain, and interpret automated test results where applicable.
Collaboration & Communication
- Partner with product owners, business SMEs, QA, and other IS teams; provide clear, timely updates on progress, risks, and decisions.
- Strategize resolution plans with business stakeholders and set expectations for timelines and outcomes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of professional development experience.
- Strong sense of ownership and follow-through on commitments
- Experience troubleshooting complex, integrated systems and relational databases (SQL Server).
- Proficiency in Java with Spring, or strong experience in a comparable object-oriented language; OutSystems experience is a plus (training available).
- Familiarity with REST APIs, messaging/integration patterns, and diagnosing application and server logs.
- Familiarity with Git and Azure DevOps (or similar) for version control and work management.
- Highly collaborative and communicative; able to translate technical topics for non-technical partners.
- Strong problem-solving skills; able to challenge ideas constructively and propose alternatives.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with high transparency and accountability.
Additional Beneficial Experience
- Knowledge of the insurance industry is helpful but not required.
The projected hourly range for this position is $48 to $70.
On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.