ARK Solutions Hiring for Application Programmer Job at Raleigh, NC Full Time

Application Programmer – Senior
Onsite Role!!!
Location: Raleigh, NC 27603

This role is for three programmers. This will involve participating in new development projects to build all new features and functions into the services and upgrade/re-write of portions of the system to the latest level of code security and tech.

This is NOT a remote work assignment. Candidates applying for this position may be expected to work from physical locations at Raleigh, NC.
PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT CANDIDATES THAT ARE WILLING TO WORK ONSITE IN RALEIGH, NC!!!

This position provides highly technical and complex analysis and programming for new development and enhancements to existing code in the SOSKB Modernization project. The duties of this position include: devising solutions to complex technical problems; following complex procedures and specifications; working independently with minimal supervision and collaborating on the KB5 Modernization team; investigating, researching, and implementing new technologies; and performing diagnostics and testing. This will involve participating in new development projects to build all new features and functions into the services and upgrade/re-write of portions of the system to the latest level of code security and applications development technologies. This includes work to redesign portions of the SOSKB and upgrade the code base to KB5 standards and take advantage of C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET 6, and MS Visual Studio subscriptions and other applications development components and tools used by our IT applications development staff and the Modernization Team.

Specific duties include:
Interviewing and working with employees, managers, and customers to understand and identify unmet business needs, define and refine workflows, reengineer and automate processes to make them more efficient, streamlined, and/or user friendly;
Collaborating with IT team members to develop and propose solutions to work processes and workflows;
Developing and documenting software requirements and business rules;
Assisting in developing high-level and detail functional design specifications;
Defining system inputs and outputs, designing user screens consistent with screen design standards, developing program specifications, developing and documenting system and user documentation;
Assisting in the development and review of software prototypes with the business analysts to demonstrate functionality and identify, review, and clarify modifications and improvements;
Assisting in creating overall software development user interface standards for the look-and-feel of the application, consistency, and ease-of-use;
Programming applications from specifications provided by business analysts using C#, JAVA, .NET 6, SQL, ASP.NET Core and other DSOS IT approved programming tools;
Entering software application defects and enhancement requests into the department’s SOSKB HelpDesk tracking system;
Working with application users, business analysts, and other technical staff in identifying and determining the root cause of errors in the system applications developed;
Executing test plans and checking for expected results before turning the program over to the business analysts;
Working SOSKB HelpDesk tickets reporting issues and bugs in the SOSKB HelpDesk tracking system;
Take programming code that has been converted to C# from a large VB.Net Windows Forms project and make it into functioning code in a .NetCore Windows Presentation Foundation project, including debugging, manual testing, and unit testing;
Convert code from Windows Communication Foundation Calls to .NetCore API calls; and
Finalize screen design and debugging on multiple .NetCore AspNet MVC projects that were converted from AspNet MVC.

The SOSKB is an integrated system that provides business services for employees and customers of DSOS. It is a feature rich system providing document scanning, indexing, bar-coding, OCR, automated workflow, redacting, image storing and retrieval, cash management and Web services. KB5 is the agency system modernization project to bring the system up to modern standards.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities / Competencies
These KSAs, along with the minimum education and experience listed, are required in order to be deemed “eligible” for the position, therefore you must provide supporting information, within the body of your application, to demonstrate your possession of each KSA listed.

Qualified applicants must possess, and your application must clearly reflect work experience that demonstrates the following:
Knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC);
Knowledge of client/server environments;
The ability to evaluate and analyze existing specialized applications and define problems effectively to make recommendations; accurately identify business needs and process improvements;
Knowledge of project management;
Experience programming, and completing projects/tasks independently or with limited supervision;
Ability to meet deadlines within time and budget allocated;
Demonstrated ability to take system/program specifications and break them into smaller manageable agile programming tasks; and
Demonstrated advanced programming experience using C#, JAVA, .NET Core, MS-SQL, XAML, WPF, .NetCore API, .NetCore AspNet, MVC, Unit Testing of code developed.

The following Management Preferences are not required, but applicants that possess these skills are preferred:

Experience developing and maintaining MS client/server applications.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Math, or Engineering or related technical degree from an appropriately accredited institution and one year of experience in business application consulting or development; or

Bachelor’s degree and some computer coursework from an appropriately accredited institution and two years of experience in business application consulting or development; or

Associate degree in Computer Programming from an appropriately accredited institution and two years of experience in application consulting or development; or

An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills Matrix: