.NET Developer V

Principal Developer

This is a contract-to-hire position. The position is a hybrid role and applicants are expected to visit the Houston office (609 Main) once or twice a week. We will consider applicants that are willing to relocate within a short period of time.

The Principal Developer plays a critical role in creating and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery for agent and commercial applications in booking and change path. The Principal Developer's role is to lead the efforts to plan, design, develop and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of core organizational functions. This individual will apply proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues, opportunities or problems in order to maximize the benefit of IT and Business investments. The Principal Developer is highly experienced and has decision-making authority. The Principal Developer is self-sufficient, requires no direct supervision, and mentors/coaches others. The Principal Developer has extensive knowledge/experience across multiple technologies and business areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical.NET developer working on critical frameworks, core business capabilities and modernization of legacy services as applications are migrated to the cloud
• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing critical software systems and/or applications with a focus on continually improving our customers journey
• Design advanced .NET application using C#, WCF, Web API, LINQ, MVC and various data access layers
• Ensure regulatory compliance requirements are addressed (e.g., PCI, PII, GDPR)
• Ensure security requirements are addressed
• Demonstrate an innovative mentality by staying aware of new developments within the technology space and identify which new technologies to adapt to provide value to our business.
• Ensure commitments are delivered on time, pass unit testing, meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Support enterprise quality assurance teams
• Work closely with team members in agile development environment where continuous integration and continuous delivery are critical
• Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of alternative solutions
• Support, maintain, and document software functionality. Identify, evaluate, and learn new technologies for implementation.
• Size and estimate development efforts. Define and manage development build plans.
• Analyze and refactor code periodically to keep it up to standards

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, other related field or 8 years of equivalent work experience required.
• Minimum 6 years of hands on software development experience with.NET technologies in enterprise systems with high availability and performance requirements.
• Experience with.NET core, CI/CD, SQL, MySQL
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with foundational AWS Services (EC2, S3, R53, RDS, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, etc.)
• Understanding of serverless technologies, services, and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.)
• Experience with security principles: authentication, authorization, OAUTH, SAML, public-private key encryption, asymmetric encryption, symmetric encryption, token validation, encoding, single sign-on
• Familiar in implementing and integrating with regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., PCI, PII, GDPR).
• Experience working with team members in high performance, agile development environment where continuous integration and continuous delivery are critical
• Experience with end to end CI/CD solutions using platforms like TeamCity and Harness
• Experience with cloud security controls, DevOps and CICD pipelines
• Knowledgeable with microservices and how they are applied in a cloud environment
• Data-driven analysis, good communication skills, quantitative reasoning, and a strong desire to learn and implement new technologies.
• Good written and verbal communication skills; the ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of employees and management, capable of successful formal and informal communication, speaks and writes clearly and understandably at the right level.
• Support, maintain, and document software functionality.
• Identify evaluate and learn new technologies for implementation.
• Size and estimate development efforts. Define and manage development build plans.
• Analyze and refactor code periodically to keep it up to standards
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

Preferred:

• Experience with Linux and GoLang
• Prior knowledge with AWS native technologies such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, EKS, Lambda, AmazonMQ etc.
• Prior knowledge working on serverless technologies, services and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.)
• AWS Certification
• Airline experience preferred, but not required