Senior Application Programmer

Role: Senior Application Programmer


Location: Baton Rouge, LA (Remote)

Project Scope:


The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications. OTS leads the State's technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies.


Roles/Responsibilities:

1. Development, administration, configuration, and support of Microsoft Power Applications, .NET applications, Microsoft Power BI dashboards and reports, and SharePoint.
2. Leading application deployment processes and strategies that align with State standards.
3. Set up, configure, and coordinate with State teams on implementation of infrastructure to support business requirements (e.g., databases, servers).
4. Implement integrations with State Enterprise Architecture Services, specific APIs, identity management, and related services.
5. Develop application-specific failover processes and strategies to ensure services align with defined Service Level Agreements.
6. Develop integration strategies and validation processes such that audit capabilities are incorporated and easily utilized.
7. Meet and communicate with business and technical subject matter experts to identify and understand requirements; facilitate meetings, testing activities, and other tasks needed to support implementation

Mandatory Skills:

1. 3+ years of expertise and/or relevant experience in any combination of the following areas:
   1. Power Platform development, including Model-Driven and Canvas applications, PCF Controls, Power Automate, and Power BI.
2. 5+ years of experience in any combination of the following areas:
   1. C#
   2. ASP.NET Core
   3. JavaScript
   4. HTML/CSS
   5. Entity Framework
3. Experience implementing Power BI dashboards for public consumption.
4. Experience with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps; including source control and pipelines.
5. Experience working with SSIS, SSRS, and/or SQL Server (T-SQL)

Desirable Skills:

1. Experience implementing technical solutions with the State of Louisiana, Department of Public Safety
2. Experience leading client engagements from strategy through solution implementation, including strategy, governance, operating models, design, delivery, deployment and ongoing maintenance;
3. Has lead a team of developers.
4. Experience with Agile and/or Scrum methodology.
5. Preferred Certifications: Power Platform Developer Associate, Power Platform App Maker Associate, Microsoft D365 Fundamentals or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Applications Specialist or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Deployment