Senior Application Programmer

Job Title Senior Application Programmer Client Company / Dept. Name State of Louisiana Address Fairfield Ave City Name Shreveport State Name LA-Louisiana Zip Code If others (Address) Duration of the project Project Start Date / / Project End Date / / Due date for Resume submission / / No. of Openings No. of Maximum Submissions Need a total of resumes for positions. Task order response will be straightaway rejected if less than qualified resumes are submitted. Job Description The scope of the proposed services will include the following :

• Individually respond to computer system emergencies and resolve problems independently or in consultation with other Information Technology applications staff or end user personnel;
• Research and resolve program, machine, data or system software problems of a highly technical nature, frequently interacting with other employees, supervisors, or users;
• Provide expert advice, assistance or guidance of a highly technical nature concerning specialized application tools, hardware, software, or databases;
• Provide specialized training to Information Technology applications staff on databases, tools, techniques, and procedures relevant to applications maintenance and
• development;
• Research new developments in hardware and software and keeps abreast of the latest developments and studies involving computer-related procedures and methods;
• Design, code, compile, test, debug, modify, and document new or existing highly complex applications programs within accepted standards, procedures and guidelines;
• Implement complex in-house and vendor-supplied applications software;
• Evaluate, analyze and prepare information and recommendations on technical solutions or options related to operating and managing an information system;
• Independently define data elements; design structures for databases; write and compile definitions and descriptions of data elements into dictionary form for use by professionals and users. Write user guides and other documentation; meet with users to determine needs and parameters to evaluate results; train users in programs or systems;
• Evaluate and analyze requests for enhancements or development projects of a highly complex nature;
• Solely responsible for the preparation and supervision of formal system test procedures of highly complex application systems;
• Prepare and monitor work plans and schedules to ensure timeliness, data integrity, and availability on a project basis. Skill set info Expertise and / or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory :
• Applicant must have prior experience with large-scale state Enterprise Architecture systems serving multiple governmental agencies.
• Applicant must have experience in an Enterprise Architecture environment comprised of various components.
• Applicant must be familiar with how the various components of an Enterprise Architecture integrate.
• Applicant must have a general understanding and experience with at least one of the following EA components or similar technologies :

Item Vendor Description

Decision Center, Decision Server IBM Business Rules Engine (BRE)

webMethods Software AG Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

API Gateway Broadcom / Software AG Enterprise API Gateway

Item Vendor Description

Nutanix Nutanix / Dell Hyper-converged computing with compute, storage and virtualization

consolidated into a single appliance

VxRail Dell Hyper-converged computing with compute, storage and virtualization

consolidated into a single appliance

ESXi VMware

vCenter VMware

NSX VMware

SRM VMware

Windows Server Microsoft Standard OS for Windows

RedHat Enterprise Linux RedHat Standard OS for Linux

MS SQL Server Microsoft Enterprise Database / Storage Engine

Nagios Nagios Infrastructure monitoring / alerting

Expertise and / or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory :

NewRelic APM NewRelic Application performance monitoring

NewRelic Infrastructure NewRelic Infrastructure Monitoring

NewRelic Browser NewRelic Browser performance monitoring

and analytics

Octopus Deploy Octopus Continuous Deployment and Delivery

Puppet Enterprise Puppet DevOps / Automation

Splunk Splunk Operational Intelligence

Veracode Veracode Static Code Analysis Education N / A Certifications (if required) N / A Documentation Required for submission Resume Work Hours Between : AM CT to : PM CT Work authorization required US Citizen Only Relocation is accepted N / A Remote work No Additional Notes if any Hybrid Shift