Per Resident only - Local to SC only - DOTNET Software Programmer - REMOTE

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

Participate in a team environment comprised of DPH staff to assist with the remediation and upgrade of administration transactional systems residing on agency servers migrated to the State IT Data Center. Emphases for the Programmer candidates will be on the modernization of legacy computer systems associated with Administrative systems, assisting with modifications of those computer systems to ensure upgrade compatibility from older to newer platform environments, application modifications to meet state and agency security standards, assisting with application evaluation and build specifications, and implementing industry standards following the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Specific Programmer duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Perform complex programming functions, assistance, and technical advice, including design architecture, configuration, writing, testing, and documentation to the complex programming of agency computer systems as assigned.
• Modernization of legacy computer systems to ASP.Net MVC or CORE environment.
• Modification of existing computer systems to be compliant with agency security requirements.
• Migration and modification of existing computer systems in older environments to newer platform environments, following industry best practices.
• Ensure maximum system uptime for critical components to ensure business continuity.
• Diagnoses, isolates and de-bugs software problems and performs problem resolution.
• Monitors systems capacity and performance, plans and executes disaster recovery procedures and provides Tier 2 technical support.
• Adheres to Information Technology application development standards and security requirements.
• All code to be checked in and out through code repository Git.
• Ensure applications are compatible in major web browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc.).
• Ensure supporting system database connection strings are updated to support database migration from DB2 to SQL database.
• Add required functionality to existing systems to retire active mainframe forms and streamline backend processes where possible.
• Prepare and maintain system documentation and architecture diagrams for applications assigned.
• Work in a collaborative effort to conceptualize total systems and/or product solutions currently in place and remediation to the system environment residing at the State IT Data Center.
• Ability to plan, organize, review, and implement associated project milestones to completion.
• Recommend and assist in the design of system architectures to align with organizational strategic business objectives.
• Requires mastery of technical and business knowledge in multiple disciplines/processes.
• Provide updates to the Project Team.
• Assist with the development of policies and procedures to conform and comply with agency standard cyber security policy design related to information risk management, designation of data as to criticality, confidentiality, and protection. (NIST 800-53, FISMA, SC InfoSec Requirements , etc.)

The position will be utilized for 40 hours per week for the duration of this project. The selected candidates should be able to work flexible hours, as it may be necessary to complete work outside traditional business hours during production system rollouts.

The candidates will work closely with the Administration Applications Section Manager to identify, prioritize, and schedule workload and implementation to IT standards and procedures. The candidates will work closely with customer and subject matter experts for the system design and testing.

Module support of the project.

• DPH will require that selected personnel sign the DPH confidentiality agreement and/or Business Associate (BA) agreement if applicable.
• DPH will not accept any offers including an up-lift charge. The rate paid per consultant must not exceed the maximum rate established for this position described in the State contract terms.
• Contractors must be on-site during each week throughout the term of the contract.
• Follow agency IT Standards, policies, and procedures to include documentation.
• All source code (compiled and uncompiled) will become the sole property of the South Carolina Department of Public. Any source code, data, product, or functionality resulting from this SOW or previously owned/developed by DPH will remain the sole property of DPH and is not to be incorporated into the core product of any vendor's application. Any modifications and interfaces developed under said contract will not be used by the contractor for any independent project of the contractor or published or publicized by the contractor without the written permission of DPH.
• DPH has the final say on all programming choices.

DPH Support:

DPH will provide:

All required information including formulas, data, and mechanisms to check output.

Staff to assist with any application or data questions.

Conference rooms and scheduling for any application demos.

Workstation and required software.

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance):

1. , MS MVC Framework
2. C#, Visual Studio, .Net Framework 4.5/4.8
3. JQUERY
4. AJAX
5. SQL
6. DB2
7. GIT
8. web services
9. RDLC Reporting, Power Bi.

Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance):

1. Subversion (Source Control)
2. Administrative system experience related to human resource practices, Financial Billing, and data security practices for PI and PHI
3. Ability to establish positive working relationships with technical staff, customers, and others involved in data-centric management.
4. Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills