Int. Application Developer - GOAPRDJP00000702

Int. Application Developer - GOAPRDJP00000702

Contract 6+ months

Remote, however, in the event of an on-site meeting

7000 - 113 ST
Edmonton
Alberta

Background Check & Enhanced Security Clearance (must get before start date, will be coordinated by GOA)

Deliver applications programming and analysis tasks as part of a system development process as well as provide application support, maintenance and enhancements. An Application Developer applies a broad knowledge of various technical areas to foresee and rectify certain problem areas within technology or with a mix of technologies, but the focus is to ensure a certain business/functional use case is solved with the help of technology.

• Liaises with business units and program areas to ensure solutions meet current and strategic ministry needs and requirements.
• Write performing quality code to fulfill design, and pass code review with minimal number of defects.
• Apply configuration on development environments when required.
• Participate in implementing full product into production, and supports providing application versions and details for implementation plan.
• Highlight the technical impacts of the functional design on existing applications based on a detailed analysis.
• Deliver technical design and database structure for medium to high application complexity.
• Maintain technical documentation.
• Identify critical features of system, and focus testing effort on them. Ensure that the unit test covers the right proportion of the application.
• Setup data for testing.
• Grasp Able to quickly understand application functionalities and process.
• Handle and fix production defects efficiently.
• Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work as required.
• Contribute to the creation of the Application Lifecycle Planning
• Identify and coordinate release schedules
• Identify service requests and priorities with customer
• Ensure planned releases remain on schedule and on track

Must-Haves:

• 5 years of experience developing any of the following: multi-user, n-tier, Object Oriented, Web Services, JSON REST API applications using C#, .NET, ASP.net or Visual Studio.
• 5 years of experience  in application maintenance and development that include: writing, modifying, integrating, testing, and documenting software code.
• 5 years of experience  in application maintenance and development that include: writing, modifying, integrating, testing, and documenting software code.
• 5 years of experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps Server
• 5 years of experience with various software development methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• 3 years of experience working in a Government development environment or in an environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta

Nice-to-Have's:

• 3 years of experience and technical knowledge using ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller)
• 3 years of experience developing and maintaining applications that use Oracle Database 19c
• 4 years of experience developing and maintaining web services, JSON REST API and Message queuing services using .NET C# services
• 3 years of experience using a version-controlling tool (Tortoise GIT, Tortoise SVN and Version Manager and MS Azure DevOps).

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