Application Developer

IT Application Developer II

• Contract Length: 6-12 months with possible extension/conversion
• Location: Berlin, CT 06037
• Work Type: Hybrid – Onsite 3 days a week (Tue, Wed & another day)
• Work Schedule: Monday – Friday | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | An hour lunch

Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.

Overview

• Design and implement new systems and features, as well as modify and maintain existing systems for adaptation to business and/or technology changes.
• Engages directly with IT management, development teams, technical delivery teams, and vendors to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of technology-based solutions.
• Drive the software change and release management processes, assisting with the overall maturity of the software development lifecycle.
• Work independently with little supervision.
• Ensure that software deliverables comply with quality standards and are completed on time Platforms.

Responsibilities

• May manage technical aspects of moderately sized projects or processes.
• Typically viewed as subject-matter expert within discipline.
• Problems faced are difficult and often complex.
• Minimal oversight from manager.
• Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals.
• Mentors lower-level engineers.
• Influences others regarding policies, practices, and procedures.
• Works to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant impact on work area.
• Contributes to the development of goals of the discipline and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.).
• Work is performed with minimal oversight.
• Typically, responsible for coaching, reviewing and delegating work to lower-level professionals where applicable.
• Provides measurable input to new products, processes, or standards in operational plans to implement business strategies.
• Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
• Problems are difficult and often complex and typically impact multiple departments or specialties.
• Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experience and analysis of issues.
• Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of work area.
• Communicates with parties within and outside of own discipline.
• May have responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization (e.g., IT partners, vendors, etc.).
• Works to influence parties within and outside of the job function at an operational level regarding policies, procedures, and practices.
• Contributes to software development processes.
• Works well with others regardless of their technical background.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of related experience.
• Strong familiarity with cloud and on-premises private networking concepts.
• An AZ-700 levels of understanding of Azure Networking.
• Azure Data Factory development experience.
• Razor and/or Blazor development experience.
• SharePoint support experience.
• Harness platform experience.
• Experience with Workday Studio highly desired but not mandatory.
• Requires advanced to expert knowledge of work area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have broad knowledge of project management.
• Works to influence parties within and outside of the job function at an operational level regarding policies, procedures, and practices.
• Requires substantial knowledge of ES projects, programs, or systems to provide enhancements within job area.
• Has advanced to expert knowledge of work area.
• Is a team player.

Technical Skills

• Front-end Scripting Language such as JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Component-based Front-end Library such as React and Next.JS
• JavaScript or Typescript testing framework like Jest or Vitest.
• Back-end Programming language, C# / .NET preferred.
• C# / .NET testing framework, XUnit preferred.
• Experience developing and querying SOAP and REST APIs.
• Experience developing applications and solutions with a security-first mindset.
• Strong understanding of secure programming concepts.
• Experience contributing to a Git-based source control system as part of a project, Azure DevOps or GitHub preferred.
• Solid understanding of DevSecOps concepts.
• AZ-204 levels of understanding of Azure development.
• Experience deploying Infrastructure as Code (AzureRM, Bicep, or Terraform).
• Experience developing and integrating applications with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications on Windows Server IIS.
• Experience deploying applications to PaaS and IaaS resources in Azure.
• Experience contributing to the design and development of cloud-based solutions.
• Independently scopes and implements larger user stories for their project/team.
• Handles open-ended problems & ambiguity well.
• Makes well-reasoned software design decisions, identifying potential issues, tradeoffs, risks, and the appropriate level of abstraction. (e.g. research spikes with results captured in ADR's, etc.)
• Maintains awareness of industry trends and tools.
• Can navigate and make legacy code maintainable.
• Elevates testing practices.
• Contributes to the foundational good of their domain and engineering overall, defining patterns and canonical examples, plus paying down tech debt.
• Shares their experience and expertise to help others grow.
• Leads and coaches within their team where possible, trusted with team decisions.
• Ensures documentation exists for all critical systems and creates such documentation as needed.
• Engages outside expertise (training, consultants, professional network).
• Shows inclusiveness by respecting different opinions acknowledging expertise and recognizing unconscious biases.