DHS App. Technical Specialist Senior (Quick base)

Short Description:

Senior Application Developer with proven professional experience in the design, development, delivery, and enhancement of Client-Server/Web-Based/Cloud-Based/Mobile Software Applications using QuickBase Rapid Development Application.

Complete Description:

This position is housed under Application Software Development (ASD) Division (ASD) of the Office of Information Systems (OIS) in direct support of the YSD Truancy Application and projects for troubleshooting, upgrades, enhancements.

DHS’s Application Software Development (ASD) Division (ASD) is looking for a Senior Application Developers whose primary responsibilities include design, development, delivery, and enhancement of Client-Server/Web-Based/Cloud-Based/Mobile Software Applications using QuickBase Application Platform.

The candidate will be responsible for the implementation and management of business aligned IT services. Ensuring the application platform is of high quality, defects free and adheres to industry standards for development, testing and deployment methodologies.

Must have experience with QuickBase Development. Hands on experience with any of the following is favorable: Java, XML, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL, PHP, WebLogic. NET/ASP/Visual C#, SQL Server, SQL/Procedural Language.

The successful candidates will demonstrate the following knowledge, skills, characteristics, experiences and/or abilities:

• Capable of design, develop and deploy applications that support users on the case and program management, especially with YSD Truancy QuickBase Application.
• Provides mentorship and technical advice to a team of Application/Reports/Query developers.
• Provides strategic advice to the lead, management, and customers of the OIS/ASD Division.
• Capable of implementing programming standards that support a secure and defective free application.
• Interact daily with government clients to meet the technical requirements for new initiatives.
• Works with Quality Assurance / Quality Control teams to ensure the application remains secure and defect free.
• Evaluates, designs, and implements accepted programming standards as they relate to the YSD QuickBase Application and infrastructure.
• Defines and documents processes to be used by all application developers on the team.
• Plans, research, and recommend new equipment, software tools, and related technologies.
• Uses monitoring and performance analysis tools to troubleshoot and isolate application performance issues.
• Updates system and process documentation, produces user guides, ER diagrams, and SOPs as needed - Including Visio Network design drawings.
  
  
  

Other duties as assigned.

• The candidate will become an integral part of the ASD Team, making every problem associated to the platform a problem of their own and will demonstrate the required initiative and critical thinking abilities necessary to resolve all problems and challenges accordingly.
• This individual will be working closely with DHS ASD and its partner agencies to ensure the agencies’ priorities are met. This is a position within DHS OIS/ASD Division.
  
  
  

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field or equivalent experience.

Candidate Skills Matrix:

Following sections are to be filled by the candidate:

Skills | Required/Desired | No. of Years | How many years of experience candidate has?

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience | Required | 15 |

Experience developing enterprise applications using Microsoft technologies within a distributed (n-tier) architecture. | Required | 15 |

Convey technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty | Required | 13 |

Prepare complex technical documentation | Required | 13 |

Experience in developing applications using Quick base Application Development Platform | Required | 11 |

Experience with database technologies, development methodologies, and front-end (e.g., Cognos)/back-end programming languages (e.g. SQL) | Required | 11 |

Strong understanding of QuickBase features, functionalities, and best practices. | Required | 7 |

Experience integrating with or utilizing Microsoft Power BI. | Required | 7 |

Proficiency in database concepts and data modeling. | Required | 7 |

Experience with any of JIRA/Bugzilla/HP ALM tools | Required | 5 |

Experience with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Service Oriented Architecture | Highly desired | 6 |

Experience developing enterprise applications that interact with MS SQL Server and/or Oracle databases | Highly desired | 11 |

Candidate should strong ETL experience in Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence platforms | Highly desired | 7 |

Experience with Databases using ADO.NET | Desired | 7 |

Experience with Visual Studio 2010 and later versions with Net Framework 2.0-4.6.2 with C# and VB | Desired | 10 |

Background check: 

• Extensive criminal history background check will be required. We cannot submit candidates with recent histories (go back seven years) of extensive driving, drug, robbery or any other illegal activity. Any criminal activity on the background check will eliminate the candidate from consideration.  If selected, please make certain that you inform all candidates that they will have to complete this criminal background check prior to starting. NATIONAL background checks are required; Federal background checks are NOT compliant under this contract. A national background check is a national criminal background check that pulls criminal records from State and County Courts in almost every US State.