Application Developer

For this contract position with one of the Pacific Northwest's most popular companies, you will be developing cost effective information technology solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications that are more complex. You will participate in requirements gathering activities, and review systems under development and related documentation.

Summary of Key Responsibilities

- Coaches and mentors other less experienced team members.
- Performs cross training and facilitates information sharing among team members.
- Collaborates with team members to recommend new software development technologies and development processes.
- Designs, develops, implements, documents, and tests changes to an application subsystem.
- Codes, tests, debugs, documents, and implements complex software applications.
- Creates more complex prototypes and ensures deliverables are high quality and meet user expectations.
- Supports system and integration testing activities.
- Initiates design reviews for new applications and adheres to software development standards.
- Participates in systems planning, scheduling and implementation.
- Collaborates with project team to keep projects on schedule by coordinating activities, monitoring project schedules, and costs.
- Participates in, leads and mentors others in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
- May assist Functional Analysts in completing deliverables and translates business requirements and functional designs into technical designs.
- Assists with development of functional designs and resolving complex design issues.
- May act as senior technical expert to consult with and analyze the business needs.
- Resolves and helps mitigate production application issues and assists less experienced application developers as needed.
- Works with other business and technology teams to support resolution of end user inquiries.
- Contributes to the documentation of production support processes.
- Anticipates long term support issues and plans for corrective actions.
- May perform root cause analysis to identify permanent resolutions to software or business process issues.
- Working with application development leads, establishes, maintains and ensures compliance with standards for development, testing and documentation.

Summary of Requirements

- Analyzing, diagnosing and proposing solutions to user problems: 6 years
- Application development and programming experience: 6 years
- Providing support to various business applications: 6 years
- Working with process owners and identifying information technology solutions that enable business process: 4 years
- Ability to quickly learn new application systems and technologies
- Knowledge of basic project management framework and methodology
- Strong proficiency in programming languages
- Ability to accurately estimate design and development timelines for application components

Summary of Developer Experience

- Advanced knowledge of C# and ASP.NET (7+ years)
- Solid knowledge working with Microsoft SQL server, Data Design, and the implementation of complex SQL stored procedures (7+ years)
- Deep understanding of application architecture and development in.NET/Service Oriented models,.NET framework, CLR and VS.NET (5+ years)
- Deep knowledge of design patterns and OO design principles (5+ years)
- Experience with WCF (3+ Years)
- Experience with MVC (2+ years)
- Experience with Team Foundation Server and MSBuild (2+ years)

General Team Experience

- Experience in a team of 4 or more people.
- Experience working with process owners and identifying information technology solutions that enable business process improvements
- Experience mentoring developers in process and technology
- Experience leading small to midsize projects to successful conclusion
- Experience working within a Scrum or agile development environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to think creatively
- Ability to learn new technology and business processes
- Ability to analyze problems and provide solutions