Ascend Learning is a national leader in data driven, online educational solutions for learners, educators and employers in high-growth, licensure-driven professions spanning healthcare, fitness and wellness, skilled trades, insurance, and financial services. We are passionate about accelerating learning while impacting job readiness, employment success and employee retention with the belief that our work changes lives.

Our culture is intentionally results-driven and selfless with a relentless focus on our customers. We believe in trust, transparency, freedom, and responsibility with a commitment to meritocracy, inclusion, and diversity of thought. Continual investment in our over 1500 employees is also a core principle realized through ongoing professional development and providing opportunities to grow, develop and lead. Ascend Learning is headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and remote workers in cities across the U.S.

Ascend Learning is seeking a Software Engineer IV to join our Tech & Ops Team. Telecommuting is permitted.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop custom plugin to achieve business critical requirements.
• Design and develop custom actions that can be called from other applications to insert data into CRM system.
• Develop WCF services and web services to integrate CRM with other applications.
• Responsible for smooth transition of the version and platform upgrade processes of CRM by analyzing the impact and maintain the track of the deadlines.
• Work with SSIS packages for synching legacy CRM data with CRM online and successfully migrated appx 50 mil records.
• Work with Data Export Service to successfully migrate CRM Online data to SQL Database for backup and reporting for data analysis and projections.
• Monitor CRM system performance by analyzing the system jobs, application insights and power platform admin center.

Required Education and Experience

• Master’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or a related field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• Experience must include three (1) year of experience with:
• MS Dynamics CRM and SDK tools, like Plugin Registration Tool, CrmSvcUtil, Package Deployer.
• Ribbon Workbench, CRM Rest Builder, Kingswaysoft SSIS package tool.
• MS Dynamics connector for CRM — AX and third-party integration tools like SCRIBE and SKYVIA.
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Report Authoring Extension tool for custom reports.
• Microsoft Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, and Microsoft CRM for Outlook
• Relational Databases like MS SQL Server.
• WCF Services, Windows Azure, Microsoft Power Point.
• C# .NET for developing plugins, WCF Services and ASP.NET

Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

TO APPLY, please apply to the posting online OR mail your resume to: Ascend Learning, Inc., ATTN: Heather Vincent, 11161 Overbrook Road, Leawood, KS 66211. Please refer to job title and this posting. EOE

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