Senior Application Programmer

Client: State of Louisiana

Department: Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

Job Title: Senior Application Programmer

Location: WLF HQ Building 2000 Quail Dr. Baton Rouge, LA

Onsite/Remote/Hybrid: Onsite

Duration: 07/01/2025 - 06/30/2029

Contract/Perm: Contract (fulltime)

No of positions: 1

Start Date: 07/01/2025

Additional Information: 

·         Local candidates are highly preferred, 100% Onsite.

Project Scope:

The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks,third party software, and custom applications.

OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies. The position will provide Application support for OTS Customer Agency’s Civil Fines System and other LDWF production systems supported by OTS.

Roles/Responsibilities:

·          Design, code, compile, test, debug, modify and document any new or existing functionality for the system within accepted standards, procedures and guidelines of the OTS.

·          Oversee the installation, administration, configuration and maintenance of the application.

·          Identify, respond, research and resolve program, data or system software problems, frequently on an individual basis, in consultation with other employees and/or users.

·          Meet with Customer Agency users and OTS staff to determine needs; write program and/or system specifications and guidelines.

·          Evaluates user requests for changes to determine specific tasks and effects on existing programs and systems; discusses and explains program and system modifications to users; and writes user guides and other documentation as needed.

·          Completes change requests, enhancements, and system design for the assigned system; providing system modifications that are reliable and easily maintainable; providing system modifications that are interoperable and interface with other systems and networks.

·          Coordinates and completes development, testing, and implementation tasks for the assigned system; including coordinating with third party vendors and various OTS verticals.

·          Monitor, review and audit performance of the customer-agency’s software and makes performance improvements.

·          Provide expert advice, assistance or guidance of a highly technical nature concerning specialized application tools, hardware, software or databases.

·          Independently define data elements; design structures for databases; write and compile definitions and descriptions of data elements into dictionary form for use.

·          Responsible for the preparation and supervision of formal system test procedures of highly complex application systems.

·          Review the work of programmers working on the assigned system to ensure data integrity and availability.

·          Prepare and monitor work plans and schedules to ensure timeliness.

·          Participates in OTS AppDM team meetings and report status on work upon request.

·          Provide technical knowledge transfer, training, documentation, mentorship and guidance to State personnel for requested work.

Mandatory Skills:

·          5 years of experience in web development with any combination of the following:

o    C#

o    ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core

o    SQL Server

o    HTML

o    Entity Framework (EF)

o    Other 3rd or 4th generation programming language (3GL or 4GL)

·          2 years of experience with any combination of the following cloud services:

o    Azure App Services

o    Azure SQL Server

o    Azure DevOps

o    AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Desirable Skills:

·          Prior experience supporting or maintaining applications for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF).

·          Prior experience supporting or maintaining applications for the State of Louisiana or the

·          Division of Administration (DOA), Office of Technology Services (OTS).

·          Developing applications with third party APIs.

·          Developing applications with payment processors or payment integrations.

·          Experience with PGP encryption to securely send and receive files.

·          Writing stored procedures

·          Developing applications with any of the following:

o    FluentValidation

o    Hangfire

o    CsvHelper

o    RestSharp

·          Managing and maintaining source code in GitHub.

References:

At least Three (3) client references from the past ten (10) years with the following details. The references must be from three (3) different clients. 

a.        Name of Company/Agency 

b.       Contact Name 

c.        Contact Title 

d.       Contact Phone # 

e.        Physical Address

e.        Contact Email