Dakota Consulting, Inc. (www.dakota-consulting.com) is a growing company that provides innovative business, IT, scientific research, and cybersecurity services to federal and commercial customers. Dakota’s objective is to provide services that meets customers’ needs and exceeds their expectations. Our core values include honesty, a commitment to exceptional customer service, and providing a respectful, fun, challenging, and learning place of employment. We actively recruit for dedicated, technically competent individuals and partners that are self-motivated while performing exceptionally well in a collaborative team effort. Dakota’s headquarters are in Silver Spring, MD. This position is located in Rosslyn, Virgina and will be a hybrid role onsite up to 3 days a week.

Dakota is looking for an experienced .NET software developer highly proficient with Microsoft technologies including Web Forms, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, .NET Framework 4 or greater, Web services, T-SQL, SQL Server, database modeling (with large database), database administration, IIS 7.5, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, ExtJS and JSon. Knowledge in Web Application, Entity Framework and MVC is preferred. The successful candidate is expected to be a self-starter and quickly ramp up to speed and be able to work independently with limited guidance. Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential for this role, in addition to highly proficient technical skills, as the candidate will be required to directly interface with various federal client stakeholders and perform demonstrations of the system to prospective clients.

Secret Clearance Required

Duties and responsibilities:

• Full life cycle software development, with a primary 90% focus on writing new code to deliver enhancements, new functionality, and defect resolution
• Assisting with requirements elicitation and analysis
• Collaborating with the team to define and document design alternatives and associated estimates
• Assisting with presenting the designs and estimates to clients for approval
• Performing presentation, business and data layer development to implement approved requirements
• Maintaining configuration management through Git and also use automation tools like Jenkins
• Performing builds and build management
• Performing data modeling and development environment database administration
• Collaborating with the test analyst regarding build coordination, deployments and test guidance
• Providing second level support to client issues
• Developing and delivering release packages and hot fixes to our clients

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science or MS of Science degree or higher; seven plus years’ (Sr. Level) experience in software development preferred .NET development technologies, with a strong focus on Web Forms, C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server technologies
• Must have a Secret Clearance
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Desired Qualifications and Experience:
• Experience working in Agile scrum team environment is highly desired
• Experience with JIRA and other Atlassian tools is desired but not required
• Microsoft certifications in applicable and related areas preferred