Job Title: .NET Application Developer

Location: Edmonton AB, T5J 4P6" Resource will work remotely, though must be available for onsite meetings when required. Onsite meetings include but are not limited to strategic, analytical, and technical discussions, meeting with team members, senior managers, directors, executive directors, and business clients. Frequency of meeting could be up to 1-2 times per month. Actual onsite attendance may be negotiable, particularly if resource lives outside Alberta."

Working Hours: Standard Hours of work are 08:15 - 16:30 Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding holidays observed by the province.

Job Summary: The Senior Application Developer will deliver applications programming and analysis tasks as part of a system development process as well as provide application support, maintenance and enhancements. An Application Developer applies a broad knowledge of various technical areas to foresee and rectify certain problem areas within technology or with a mix of technologies, but the focus is to ensure a certain business/functional use case is solved with the help of technology.

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with business units and program areas to ensure solutions meet current and strategic ministry needs.
• Align development team to follow Application Architecture.
• Write code for the most complex Functional and Technical Designs with minimal defects.
• Define non-functional requirements (Performance, Availability, Portability, Recovery / Recoverability etc.).
• Assess technical impacts up front and recommend better ways of designing application to ease the development.
• Produce Technical Design, Database structure and Application Architecture for a new average to high complex application.
• Seek for the best technical design solution that respects budget and timeline. Advocate the re-use of existing components/frameworks.
• Innovate in providing better efficient ways to design application.
• Review Technical Designs from other developers and recommend optimization if necessary.
• Evaluate, with assistance, the quality of the product being delivered, and take action to improve situations.
• Assist/Execute performance/penetration tests and troubleshoot issues at the system level.
• Isolate root cause of issues and provide solution options/recommendations.
• Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work, as required.
• Contribute to the creation of the Application Lifecycle Planning.
• Identify and coordinate release schedules.
• Identify service requests and priorities with customers.
• Ensure planned releases remain on schedule.

Technical Requirements:

• Experience and technical knowledge of Microsoft C#.
• Experience and technical knowledge of the Microsoft.NET Framework.
• Technical knowledge of Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten Web
• Experience with software development processes, and all associated best practices
• Experience with unit testing and test-driven development tools.
• Experience with using JIRA or Revision Control System (RCS)
• Experience working with developing ASP.NET MVC web applications.
• Experience working with programming in HTML with JavaScript and CSS.
• Experience working with querying data with Microsoft Transact-SQL Server.
• Experience working with W3C