Senior Application Programmer - Remote Role
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.