Job Description:
***Crop to Crop resumes are accepted
Location Requirement: Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI within 30 calendar days of start date. Local candidates preferred. Headquarters is downtown Madison, WI. Services to DNR must be physically completed within the State of Wisconsin including during remote work. Hybrid, on a weekly basis DNR is currently 60% remote and 40% in the office. Hybrid requirement is weekly not monthly. New contractor must start onsite for a five-day orientation/onboarding. Work cannot be conducted outside the United States.
The candidate must have proven work experience with application development, user interface development for custom applications and database design and development. The person hired for
this position must work closely with team members and DNR Application Architect Lead for application solutions, development plans, and ensure effective integration among information systems and the IT infrastructure. This may include working with DNR approved third party technologies. An important part of the position will be to understand the interactions between applications, and services within the DNR environment, and evaluate the impact of changes or additions.
The candidate should be motivated to stay on top of technological advancements to ensure that solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with industry and agency standards as well as emerging business requirements. The candidate must understand user and process requirements and ensure those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables. The candidate for this position will need to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals and be able to perform a variety of tasks. To be successful, the developer will need to take initiative and own tasks or products along with being self-motivating including excellent communications, time management, listening, collaboration, problem solving and adaptability skillsets.
This position will work at the direction of the DNR IT Custom Applications and Development Section
Supervisors, DNR Application Architect Lead, Business Relationship Manager, Project Manager, and
program Leads, utilizing DNR IT standards, software, and tools. Tasks of this position include, but are not
limited to:
- Orienting oneself to current applications including VB.net and/or .Net, technical debt, and current backlog. This includes reviewing code, documentation, setting up locally and talking with others to understand functionality and business needs.
- Design and develop application leveraging DNR standards, best practices and modernized design for performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, accessibility and secure coding practices while ensuring business needs are met. This includes developing web applications, batch processes and reports as needed.
- Assist with database architecture, design, and maintenance to ensure data accuracy, performance, and scalability.
- Provide application maintenance, support, troubleshooting and issue resolution.
- Perform and document testing using DNR approved tools and processes for validating functional and non-functional scenarios to ensure quality and accuracy in meeting business needs.
- Manage code, branching, and deployments through Azure DevOps/GIT, following release processes.
- Complete priority tasks and maintain task progress in Azure DevOps to support deliverables and timelines.
- Participate and contribute input in all meetings related to Agile Methodologies following DNR IT PMO guidance.
- Analyze tasks and provide input into estimates and timelines.
- Participate in technical team meetings to coordinate development activities and resolve risks. This includes collaboration with GIS staff providing support on related applications.
- Provide support and issue resolution for user acceptance testing.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for the solution to support ongoing operations.
- Support enhancements, maintenance and documentation for additional program applications.
Required Skills (5) & Years of Experience:
- Advanced level application development skillsets including analysis, design and development within Microsoft .Net environment. (8+ yrs)
- Coding experience in .Net framework with MVC including C#, VB.net, JavaScript and Bootstrap. (8+ yrs)
- Experience applying accessibility and security standards to custom applications. (6+ yrs)
- Experience developing applications with relational databases including designing, writing stored procedures, performance tuning and SQL (Oracle preferred/SQL Server). (8+ yrs)
- Experience working in Azure DevOps/GIT including keeping work items updated, code management and CI/CD. (4+ years)
Desired Skills:
- Experience working at DNR or in another Government agency.
- Experience working with Microsoft Suite, including SharePoint, Teams, Word, Excel, etc.
- Experience with GIS, especially Esri JavaScript APIs.
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