NET Lead Developer/Architect

PROJECT/SYSTEM/PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Department of Children and Families depends on the core, mission-critical applications, LINK and IV-E, Connecticut’s Federally-reimbursed SACWIS (Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System).  Implemented in 19NA, available on every desktop, and used by over 2,000 social workers and case managers, the application has been enhanced and modified continually to meet data capture and process functionality requirements driven by good child welfare case practice as well as State and Federal legislation and statute.  Additionally, LINK continues to experience change chiefly in compliance with the 19NA Juan F. Consent Decree as well as the agency’s ongoing goal of improving the safety, permanency and well-being of children in care.  The agency is currently committed to developing the next generation Comprehensive Child Welfare information system (CCWIS) and has invested resources to ensure that Connecticut has efficient, economic and effective tools to aid our Child Welfare Staff, Providers and the children and families of CT. 

DCF Information Systems provides technology expertise and services as well as an information systems infrastructure to the agency and its roughly 3,300 employees.  DCF Information Systems strives to improve continually improving technology services that are cost-effective and of the highest effectiveness and quality.

1. SCOPE OF WORK

The agency needs the service of a senior level .NET developer to work on SACWIS and CCWIS.   The candidate will serve in the capacity of a .NET Lead/Architect. Developer participating in various SDLC processes including requirements verification, design and development, testing, maintenance, and support activities per the direction of agency management.  The specific focus of this candidate will be the to be part of the team which supports existing .NET applications as well as to participates in the SDLC process of the new CCWIS system based on Salesforce and work with the System Integrator to ensure the transfer of knowledge and on-going maintenance of the solution for a given module. Specifically, the candidate will be responsible for maintaining .NET applications and participating in the SDLC process which includes meetings with the SI, verification of deliverables such as requirements, design, testing, and environment configuration. 

Specific Services Required:

In this role, the following services are required:

1. Design and development of the core technology and architecture of largescale distributed systems, midrange to client server and ntier ecommerce applications and solutions.
2. Designs systems integration plans; develops moderate to complex software modules; populates an application host and configuration matrices using industry standard strategies.
3. Develops general and detailed design specifications for moderate to complex systems.
4. Assist in the design and development of the database architecture including relational data structures, data marts, data dictionaries and logical and physical data models.
5. Assist to develop strategies for data acquisitions, archive recovery, integration and implementation enterprise databases.
6. Assist in migration and integration of data and processes from legacy systems to new applications and new technologies.
7. Assists in the development of information systems blueprints, design patterns, templates for best-in-class software development and to ensure high levels of software reuse and the migration towards service oriented architecture (SOA).

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Refer to the State contracts for IT Professional Services Agreement (12PSX0251) for general experience and skill requirements for the job classification of Software Engineer 3.  For this position, the candidate shares experience and judgment with team to plan and accomplish goals, mentors less experienced staff, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. In addition, the agency requires:

A 10 or more years of prior experience demonstrating the following knowledge and skills:

Specific Services Required:

·        Must be very organized, pro-active and self-directed.

·        Must be self-starter and driven.  Must Drive the work from requirements to implementation.

·        Must have very strong abstract thinking and problem-solving skills.

·        Must have very good verbal and written communication skills.

1. ***Full Stack able to implement web solutions end to end (requirements, design, implement, deliver)
2. ***Ability to coach and mentor junior developers
3. ***Full Stack .NET and Salesforce experience is a must
4. In-Depth expertise with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and Javascript Libraries.
5. Experience with ASP.NET Forms and MVC 5, MVVM
6. Experience with .NET Libraries (e.g. Directory Services, Crypto, Enterprise Library)
7. Experience with XML and related technologies and standards, such as the development of schema definitions (XSD), XML parsing and the development of XSLT.
8. Experience with Windows Communication Foundation and creation of web services.
9. Experience in the use of object oriented (OO) development principles such as Inheritance, Encapsulation and Polymorphism, Design Patterns, and S.O.L.I.D Principles.
10. Experience with code control/version Team Foundation.
11. Experience in Test Driven Development and testing tools and techniques.

Experience with the following is preferred:

1. ***Experience with Sencha ExtJS, React, Angular, Bootstrap
2. Experience with Salesforce
3. Experience with DB2 .NET library
4. Experience with Entity Framework