About this Position:
Job Title: Senior Application Programmer
Duties/Responsibilities:
• Development, administration & configuration of a custom-built .NET development project.
• Provide technical knowledge transfer, training, documentation, mentorship, and guidance to State personnel for all requested work.
• Provide oversight and guidance of the customer-agency's replacement software and make performance improvements.
• Perform code reviews and testing on new code.
• Participates in all necessary team meetings and design sessions in accordance with Scrum ceremonies.
• Cooperation with the State's Technical Architect to ensure compliance with department standards of State applications.
Mandatory Qualifications:
• Five (5) plus years of expertise and/or relevant experience in C#.
• Five (5) plus years of expertise and/or relevant experience in ASP.NET Core (version 6.0 or later).
• Five (5) plus years of expertise and/or relevant experience in MSSQL.
• Two (2) plus years enterprise-level software development.
• Two (2) plus years of experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment.
Desired Qualifications:
• Has led a team of application programmers under Microsoft development stack.
• Experience designing and developing distributed systems (Microservices/SOA).
• Experience developing reports with SSRS, PowerBI, Tableau, or other reporting tools.
• Experience setting up, maintaining and using DevOps pipelines, including CI/CD, such as GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy, and automating tasks.
• Experience with the Git Version Control System, including branching strategies for complex systems.
• Proficiency in front-end development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js, React, NodeJS, Angular, TypeScript, etc.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and integration.
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, or cloud-native managed container orchestrators).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code practices using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Biceps, etc.
• Solid understanding of security best practices for modern web applications.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience working in Agile environments with iterative development practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Familiarity with API integrations for external data sources.
• Exposure to modular or microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of message-based systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, ServiceBus) and asynchronous programming models.