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Lead and facilitate the creation and implementation of automation governance practices and other automation tools</li><li>Prepare detailed functional requirements for software development.</li><li>Maintains software design principles to guide and govern how application solutions will be designed, integrated and implemented to lower costs and improve application maintainability, flexibility, scalability, robustness, performance, and ability to troubleshoot</li><li>Follow established procedures for the design, coding, and testing of new software.</li><li>Monitor performance of new applications.</li><li>Provide guidance to business and development teams on which tools, practices frameworks and libraries to use for automation systems development</li><li>Analyze enterprise business context (trends and business strategy), as well as change requirements to derive the automation architecture future state</li><li>Produce thorough test plans and any specific test and load test conditions that must be met for all sites affected by software alterations. 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Monitor adherence to performance standards.</li><li>Prepare time estimates for a project and detailed time estimate for each program within the project.</li><li>Apply Americold Project Management Methodology for successful implementation of IT Solutions in all projects ranging from new business launches to support of current business processes</li><li>Work closely with the internal/external customer responsible to perform any tasks required as related to critical software and/or process alterations – such as: solution design, software and process testing, systems configuration, process and information flow documentation maintenance, performing of UAT’s, coordination of information distribution to site, etc…</li><li>Generation and compilation of corrective action documents, complete with probable causes and possible solutions to systems issues and follow through to deployment of solution</li><li>Maintain detailed knowledge of where and how assigned disciplines are utilized across the organization. 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