Software Developer / Programmer 3

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

Note : All official drafts, documents and recommendations, as listed below, must be reviewed, finalized and approved / accepted by

appropriate BPA manager or other federal personnel with the authority to do so.

Design, develop, test, and deploy n-tier C# .Net applications utilizing the .Net framework 3.5 (and later).

Design, document, and communicate effective technical solutions meeting end-user requirements.

Analyze, test, and apply changes to the application environment under the prevailing change management procedures and

Provide administration of Windows Server (2008 or newer).

Identify and resolve problems in applications at all system tiers (e.g., Application, Server, Database, and Network).

Configure and support web applications using Microsoft Server's IIS administration tool.

requirements.

Work collaboratively with users and technical staff to design streamlined user interfaces.

Integrate with an existing Agile development team.

Collaborate with software developers, IT testing, and Users throughout the System Development Life Cycle.

Support and adhere to Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards and North American Electric Reliability

Corporation critical infrastructure protection (NERC-CIP) compliance when performing assigned work.

Provide emergency and backup support for existing systems and functions.

Serve as the point-of-contact and subject matter technical resource lead, as requested / assigned the BPA manager. This work may

include :

o Break down technical work into tasks and provide reasonable time estimates for completion.

o Review other developers' code and provide technical constructive feedback where necessary to verify their code follows BPA

and team coding standards and programming best practices.

o Communicate status of project development work to project team, users, information system owners (ISOs) and others.

o Analyze and propose technical designs that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements which also optimize the long-

term maintainability of the system.

Identify and escalate technical bottlenecks and impediments to the project manager and information system owner.

o Produce required project technical documentation.

Analyze data, identify quality assurance / quality control issues, and identify failure or maintenance trends, including issues that may

have origins in upstream systems.

Produce code that coworkers can maintain and be agreeable to peer reviews.

Take over support of code written by other developers as needed.

Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements. Share and

disperse documents only to appropriate personnel (those with a Lawful Government Purpose (LGP) to know). Mark and maintain all

official records in accordance with the Information Security (INFOSEC) and Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM)

standards and procedures. Validate official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Corresponding Experience (required on matrix)

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering or a directly related field is preferred.

o With a degree in the applicable fields, 5 years of experience is required.

o Without an applicable degree, 7 years of experience is required.

Experience should include demonstrated software programming work experience in Computer Science / Information Technology and

developing and implementing technology solutions.

Applicable certifications will count towards 1 year of experience and each applicable college degree will count towards 2 years of experience. See

Preferred Skills & Experience" section for applicable certifications.

Required Technical Skills & Experience (required on matrix)

5 years of experience developing with .NET framework and C#

5 years of demonstrated expert level .NET programming within an experienced development team

Preferred Skills & Experience (optional on matrix)

Applicable certifications include : MSSQL, MySQL, Blazor Server / WASM, SCRUM.

5 years of experience with the following :

o Object Oriented design principles

o Database Access (For example : Entity Framework, NHibernate, or ADO.NET)

o Microsoft Visual Studio IDE

Web services and socket-based protocols (i.e., XPATH, XML Schemas, XSLT, WCF, SOAP)

Web application development using WebForms and MVC

JavaScript front-end frameworks (i.e., Angular, React, VueJS)

Version Control Systems (i.e., TFS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial)

Experience with Microsoft shell languages (DOS / Batch / PowerShell)

Database Access (design and query Microsoft databases using SQL)

Additional Requirements (not required on matrix)

Valid U.S. Driver's License is required.