Application Technical Specialist

This is a contract position for an Application Technical Specialist based in Washington, District of Columbia, with a duration of 6 months. The role combines hands-on software development with technical leadership, focusing on enterprise applications built on Microsoft technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy applications that support case and program management initiatives.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to a team of Application, Reports, and Query developers.
• Offer strategic technical advice to leadership, management, and government clients.
• Implement and enforce programming standards that ensure secure and defect-free applications.
• Interact daily with government clients to understand and meet technical requirements for new initiatives.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance and Quality Control teams to maintain application security and integrity.
• Define, document, and communicate development processes and standards across the development team.
• Plan, research, and recommend new equipment, software tools, and related technologies.
• Use monitoring and performance analysis tools to troubleshoot and isolate application performance issues.
• Create and maintain system and process documentation, including user guides, entity-relationship diagrams, standard operating procedures, and Visio network design drawings.

Qualifications

• Required

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 11+ years of professional experience designing, developing, delivering, and enhancing client-server, web-based, cloud-based, and mobile software applications using Microsoft .NET technologies.

• 11+ years of hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and SQL/Procedural Language.

• 15+ years of experience developing enterprise applications using Microsoft technologies within a distributed (n-tier) architecture.

• 13+ years of experience conveying technical and functional concepts for specific technical specialties.

• 13+ years of experience preparing complex technical documentation.

• 11+ years of experience with database technologies, development methodologies, and front-end (e.g., Cognos) and back-end programming languages (e.g., SQL).

• 11+ years of experience developing enterprise applications that interact with MS SQL Server and/or Oracle databases.

• 10+ years of experience with Visual Studio 2010 and later versions, .NET Framework 2.0-4.6.2, C#, and VB.

• 7+ years of strong ETL experience in Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence platforms.

• 7+ years of experience with databases using ADO.NET.

• 6+ years of experience with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Service Oriented Architecture.

• 5+ years of experience with issue tracking and test management tools such as JIRA, Bugzilla, or HP ALM.

• Preferred

• Experience with Java.

• Experience with XML.

• Experience with HTML.

• Experience with JavaScript.

• Experience with BPEL.

• Experience with PHP.

• Experience with WebLogic.