VB Developer

IT DEVELOPER - 6 MONTH rolling contract opportunity working for a government operated utility company.

YOUR ROLE:

Your role will be to develop, modify and test complex program and system logic and analyse performance within the constraints of a system plan. You will need to support existing applications as well as the deployment of software into a test/production environment within the constraints of a change control plan.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- Maintain knowledge of the software environment, operational guidelines and standard procedures of the companies information systems.
- Efficient application design and development to ensure Business and Operational Service Levels are met.
- Performance analysis and Application reviews to ensure that IT. resources are used efficiently and have the capacity to meet current and future Business requirements.
- Mentor and provide support to other developers in best practices for application design, programming, and testing.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL FOR THIS ROLE, YOU WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:

- Must have strong hands on commercial experience with the following:
- VB6
- VB .NET 2005
- MS Access
- VBA
- SQL
- Java
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to perform root cause analysis.
- Understanding of security standards such as WS Security, Digital Certificates, SSL etc
- Knowledge and understand of infrastructure design.
- Substantial experience in design documentation.
- Technical lead experience
- Preferred/desirable- project management methodologies
- Preferred/desirable- Proficiency with Enterprise Architect and Visio highly
- Experience in the following technologies is preferable/desirable:
- Oracle
- ITIL
- C#