Are you driven to create rock-solid software solutions to feed mission critical business processes and decisions? Want to contribute to a growing financial services firm who values IT as a partner to the business? Keep reading…

As we continue to grow and add top talent to the Baird IT family, we are looking a .NET Software Developer for our downtown Milwaukee headquarters. Viewing our profession as a craft, our developers work collaboratively to build and deliver quality software for our clients in a continuous learning, agile/lean environment. They create, refactor, and enhance applications using the latest tools and techniques. We offer a DevOps culture with a rich developer community focused on software craftsmanship and adding value to the Baird business.

This role supports our Corporate Resource Group businesses (Marketing & Risk Management). We work in a hybrid working environment and developers work out of our Milwaukee headquarters 2-3 days/week.

As a Developer you will:

Engineer - do the work!
- Develop and build new solutions using a variety of technologies (full .NET stack, JavaScript frameworks, SQL, & PowerShell)
- Analyze, design, and refactor business applications to bring them up to current standards

Test and Troubleshoot – focus on quality!
- Maintain integrity of high level design and architecture by participating in pairing and design/code reviews
- Identify and implement problem resolutions and perform system and risk analysis
- Participate in application reviews to help drive accurate and complete support documentation
- Focus on automated testing and continuous delivery

Collaborate - build relationships!
- Work with team members and key stakeholders to develop high level project estimates and creation of test plans
- Partner with project teams to translate business and functional requirements into technical design

Learn - be your best!
- Seek out and apply new technologies and skills in daily work through conferences, online training, reading, participation in organizations and user groups, etc.
- Participate in lunch and learns and other open learning opportunities to help further your craft.

What makes this opportunity great:

• Ability to work on critical projects with a variety of teams and leaders, proving your ability to influence and make business impact through providing technology solutions
• Information technology is a core part of Baird’s business strategy and plays a critical role in the growth and transformation of the firm
• Collaborative culture that values diverse backgrounds and perspectives while emphasizing teamwork and a strong sense of partnership
• Team of associates passionate about achieving great results for clients and give back to the communities where we live and work

What we look for:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering is preferred, but we would love equivalent experience too.
- Passion for software development with diverse experience including new development, support and maintenance.
- Minimum of 3 years demonstrated experience with Microsoft stack working across tiers (Object-Oriented design, C#, MVC, ASP.NET, Web API, T-SQL, RESTful services, OAuth 2.0, Azure and Power BI)

-Strong back-end development skills with experience in C#
- Strong experience working with SQL Server and other database technologies.

- Experience with Digital Marketing Technologies (Websites, Email, Social Media platforms.), Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Google Analytics, Web Content Management (CMS) platforms preferred.

- Experience with Power Automate, Python, Alteryx and/or Azure preferred.

- Ability to work collaboratively with internal clients, business analysts, project managers and other developers to elicit requirements and successfully implement software projects.
- Creative problem solver who is automation focused – success in reducing recurring work and automation to train users for self-service.
- Quality focused, motivated by small quick wins and process improvement.
- Comfortable working in an Agile/Lean development environment, successfully collaborating within and across teams.
- SharePoint development experience a plus.

- Willingness to participate in 5 weeks of on-call support per year

- Comfortable working in an Agile/Lean development environment, successfully collaborating within and across teams.

- Data integration experience a plus.

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Commitment to Inclusion & Diversity

Baird is committed to inclusion & diversity for our clients, our associates and the communities where we live and work. This commitment stems from our culture of integrity, genuine concern for others and respect for the individual. We view inclusion & diversity as an ongoing journey – one of shared responsibility, continuous improvement and a focus on progress. We invite you to join us as we work together to foster an environment where diversity unites rather than divides us. Learn more here.