WPF/WCF Developer | Contract | Belgium

WPF/WCF Developer

Contract

Belgium

You will be required to speak (French or Dutch) and at least a passive understanding (spoken) of the other. Fluent in English (written & spoken)

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION

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Actively looking for a senior .NET WPF/WCF specialist to integrate the Metering development team.
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The objective of the team is to supply services for a series of critical core applications for gas flow management:

-NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT:
-Enhancements on existing products
-SUPPORT EXISTING PRODUCTS

The successful applicant will be involved in all aspects of the services but will have a first specific assignment concerning one of the core metering applications made in WPF: Metro. The goal is to improve the performance of the application especially towards the binding and rendering strategy but also towards Back End performance tuning. Therefore he/she will be able to propose impacting architectural improvements and work autonomously inside a very motivated and agile team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

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Together with Tech Lead/Architect define a roadmap to improve the usability of the Metro application especially towards performance.
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Modernize/Rewrite a large part of the UI, work on performance and usability aspects.
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Improve performance on the Back End and propose architectural improvements.
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Testing (unit tests, integration tests).
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Collaborate with operations teams to deploy/configure the software.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

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Ability to communicate with business analysts for understanding the specifications and designs that form the basis for implementation
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Ability to communicate with technical lead to understand the constraints of the architecture that must be followed.
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Master one of both national languages (French/Dutch) and at least a passive understanding (spoken) of the other. Fluent in English (written & spoken)

PERSONAL SKILLS

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Ability to work relatively independently following the priorities and timing of the release plan
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Ability to work structured following the procedures (check-in, check-out, time sheet reporting, punctuality)
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Ability to work according to rules, standards and guidelines defined in the architecture
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Ability to communicate realistic predictions about the development work
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Ability to learn a complex business model

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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Ability to develop on the .NET platform in a structured way according to the coding conventions and rules.

Master most of the technologies and practices used:

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WPF, MVVM, Prism, MVVM Light
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C# 3.5 >= 4.5
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Visual Studio 2013
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WCF
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NHibernate
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Unit Testing (Ms Test)
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TDD