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The VGM Corporate IT department is a dynamic team dedicated to providing innovative technical solutions to a large enterprise organization. Our corporate team partners with all VGM divisions and subsidiaries to provide valuable technology solutions at all levels of the organization. In this role, you will make a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of our workforce.

Position Summary

A Full Stack Developer II within VGM Group’s Corporate IT department is responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, and maintaining internal applications as well as enterprise technology and automation solutions that support various VGM business units and are critical to the company’s growth. This role blends modern software development practices with Microsoft Azure cloud technologies and APA/RPA-style automation tools to reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and scale digital capabilities across the organization.

The Full Stack Developer II will be part of an agile development team, building and working on enterprise grade software systems primarily on top of the Microsoft .NET development stack. All developers will participate in Agile/Scrum software development methodology, perform full stack development, and are expected to understand business processes and maintain domain knowledge.

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Reporting Accountability: Software Developer Lead

Working Location: Waterloo, IA

Work Hours Classification: Full-time, Monday-Friday 8-5 (flexible), occasional off hours when job duties require (remote working arrangement)

Key Responsibilities:

As a member of VGM’s Corporate IT team, this role provides application development, automation development, and support services for new and existing solutions across the organization.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain internal web, API, and service-based applications.
Adhere to established development standards, coding conventions, and secure development practices.
Participate in requirements gathering, solution design, technical estimations, and peer code reviews.
Assist in logical and physical database design and performance optimization (SQL Server and/or cloud databases).
Troubleshoot, support, and continuously improve applications in partnership with business stakeholders and other IT areas.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code where applicable.
Monitor and optimize application performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency within Azure environments.
Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and architecture teams to align solutions with enterprise cloud standards and guardrails.
Design, develop, deploy, and maintain automations using APA/RPA-style tools (e.g., Microsoft Power Automate, Copilot) and/or scripting frameworks.
Integrate automations with enterprise applications, APIs, message queues, and data sources to enable end-to-end workflows.
Ensure automation solutions comply with governance, security, data privacy, and audit requirements; follow role-based access and credential management practices.
Perform other duties and complete other projects as assigned.

Key Qualifications:

Technical Experience (Required)

3-7+ years of professional experience in software engineering or application development.
Experience building and supporting process automations using APA/RPA-style platforms (e.g., Power Automate, MS Copilot) and/or scripting (PowerShell, Python).
Proficiency in .NET, primarily C#; Node.js; experience with modern front-end framework (ie: Vue).
Strong SQL skills and knowledge of relational database concepts (SQL Server/Azure SQL).
Hands-on experience delivering solutions with Microsoft Azure services (e.g., App Services, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Storage, Azure SQL).
Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, source control (Git), and automated testing.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field highly preferred.

Skills and competencies:

Strong analytical, conceptualization, and problem-solving skills.
Effective communication skills; able to clearly articulate technical concepts and trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
Ability to collaborate with team members and take initiative, own outcomes, and adapt to changing priorities.
Ability to meet project timelines and deliver high-quality solutions in a dynamic environment.
Relevant Microsoft, Azure, or Power Platform certifications are a plus.

Learn more about VGM Group, Inc.:

Headquartered in Waterloo, Iowa, VGM is a 100% employee-owned company providing business and professional services to thousands of business customers across North America. Services include group purchasing, commercial insurance, management of healthcare services and networks in post-acute cases, healthcare distribution direct to patient homes, specialty consulting, online education, digital, print, and traditional marketing and more. VGM employs approximately 1,700 people across 40 states and Canada, with more than 1,100 working in Iowa. VGM has been named the Top Workplace in Iowa on multiple occasions and is proud of its role in the communities in which it serves. For more information visit www.vgmgroup.com. 

Compensation Overview:

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

This job description reflects the general duties of the job but is not a detailed description of all duties which may be inherent to the position. Reasonably related additional duties may be assigned to the individual Associate.

VGM Group, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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