Job Description

1. Primarily onsite (Baton-Rouge, LA)

2. Visa consultants will be considered as long as no sponsorship is needed

3. Contract type: C2C

4. Potential 3 year contract

JOB TITLE: Senior Application Programmer

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

1. Design, code, compile, test, debug, modify and document any new or existing functionality for the system within accepted standards, procedures and guidelines of the OTS.

2. Oversee the installation, administration, configuration and maintenance of the application.

3. Identify, respond, research and resolve program, data or system software problems, frequently on an individual basis, in consultation with other employees and/or users.

4. Meet with Customer Agency users and OTS staff to determine needs; write program and/or system specifications and guidelines.

5. Evaluates user requests for changes to determine specific tasks and effects on existing programs and systems; discusses and explains program and system modifications to users; and writes user guides and other documentation as needed.

6. Completes change requests, enhancements, and system design for the assigned system; providing system modifications that are reliable and easily maintainable; providing system modifications that are interoperable and interface with other systems and networks.

7. Coordinates and completes development, testing, and implementation tasks for the assigned system; including coordinating with third party vendors and various OTS verticals.

8. Monitor, review and audit performance of the customer-agency's software and makes performance improvements.

9. Provide expert advice, assistance or guidance of a highly technical nature concerning specialized application tools, hardware, software or databases.

10. Independently define data elements; design structures for databases; write and compile definitions and descriptions of data elements into dictionary form for use.

11. Responsible for the preparation and supervision of formal system test procedures of highly complex application systems.

12. Review the work of programmers working on the assigned system to ensure data integrity and availability.

13. Prepare and monitor work plans and schedules to ensure timeliness.

14. Participates in OTS AppDM team meetings and report status on work upon request.

15. Provide technical knowledge transfer, training, documentation, mentorship and guidance to State personnel for requested work.

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory :

1. 5+ years of experience in web development with any combination of the following:

2. C#

3. ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core

4. SQL Server 12

5. HTML

6. Entity Framework (EF)

7. Other 3rd or 4th generation programming language (3GL or 4GL)

8. 2+ years of experience with any of the following cloud services:

9. Azure App Services

10. Azure SQL Server

11. Azure DevOps

12. AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory :

1. Prior experience supporting or maintaining applications for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF).

2. Prior experience supporting or maintaining applications for the State of Louisiana or the Division of Administration (DOA), Office of Technology Services (OTS).

3. Developing applications with third party APIs.

4. Developing applications with payment processors or payment integrations.

5. Experience with PGP encryption to securely send and receive files.

6. Writing stored procedures

7. Developing applications with any of the following:

8. FluentValidation

9. Hangfire

10. CsvHelper

11. RestSharp

12. Managing and maintaining source code in GitHub.

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