Senior Application Programmer

Additional Information:

• Local candidates are highly preferred, 100% Onsite.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Oversee the installation, administration, configuration and maintenance of the application.
• Identify, respond, research and resolve program, data or system software problems, frequently on an individual basis, in consultation with other employees and/or users.
• Meet with Customer Agency users and OTS staff to determine needs; write program and/or system specifications and guidelines.
• 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.
• 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.
• Coordinates and completes development, testing, and implementation tasks for the assigned system; including coordinating with third party vendors and various OTS verticals.
• Monitor, review and audit performance of the customer-agency's software and makes performance improvements.
• Provide expert advice, assistance or guidance of a highly technical nature concerning specialized application tools, hardware, software or databases.
• Independently define data elements; design structures for databases; write and compile definitions and descriptions of data elements into dictionary form for use.
• Responsible for the preparation and supervision of formal system test procedures of highly complex application systems.
• Review the work of programmers working on the assigned system to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Prepare and monitor work plans and schedules to ensure timeliness.
• Participates in OTS AppDM team meetings and report status on work upon request.
• Provide technical knowledge transfer, training, documentation, mentorship and guidance to State personnel for requested work.

Mandatory Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in web development with any combination of the following:
  • C#
  • ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core
  • SQL Server
  • HTML
  • Entity Framework (EF)
  • Other 3rd or 4th generation programming language (3GL or 4GL)
• 2+ years of experience with any combination of the following cloud services:
  • Azure App Services
  • Azure SQL Server
  • Azure DevOps
  • AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Desirable Skills:

• Prior experience supporting or maintaining applications for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF).
• Prior experience supporting or maintaining applications for the State of Louisiana or the
• Division of Administration (DOA), Office of Technology Services (OTS).
• Developing applications with third party APIs.
• Developing applications with payment processors or payment integrations.
• Experience with PGP encryption to securely send and receive files.
• Writing stored procedures
• Developing applications with any of the following:
  • FluentValidation
  • Hangfire
  • CsvHelper
  • RestSharp
• Managing and maintaining source code in GitHub.