Title

Sr. Application Programmer 

Client

State of LA 

Location 

Remote 

Resumes Due

April 15^th 

Rate

Up to 90/hr 

Duration

~1.5 years 

Description/Role

 The two positions will provide Application support for OTS Customer Agency’s Civil Fines System. The Civil Fines System launched in December 2021 and serves the following functions:

• Enables the public to search for Civil Citations to pay their fine or to complete an education course for a reduced penalty.
• Provides Customer Agency’s program and accounting staff with an administrative portal to manage the Civil Program’s daily operations.

The Civil Fines System was developed using the following technology and hosting:

• C#
• ASP.NET Core
• Entity Framework (EF) Core
• SQL Server
• Fluent Validation
• Hangfire
• React with TypeScript
• Bootstrap HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
• Integrations utilizing JSON Web APIs and webhooks
• Azure App Services
• Azure SQL Server

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

The duties of a Senior Application Programmer include, but are not limited to:

• Provides maintenance and support of the Civil Fines System, including existing integrations (i.e. Course System) and new integrations prioritized by the agency (i.e. CAD, RMS, licensing revocation, etc.).
• Design, code, compile, test, debug, modify and document any new or existing functionality for the system within accepted standards, procedures and guidelines of the OTS.
• Oversee the installation, administration, configuration and support of the application; participate in a conversion of data from one database to another database.
• Identify, respond, research and resolve program, data, or system software problems, frequently on an individual basis, in consultation with other employees and/or users.
• Meet with Customer Agency users and OTS staff to determine needs; write program and/or system specifications and guidelines.
• Evaluates user requests for changes to determine specific tasks and effects on existing programs and systems; discusses and explains program and system modifications to users; and writes user guides and other documentation as needed.
• Completes change requests, enhancements, and system design for the assigned system; providing system modifications that are reliable and easily maintainable; providing system modifications that are interoperable and interface with other systems and networks.
• Coordinates and completes development, testing, and implementation tasks for the assigned system; including coordinating with third party vendors and various OTS verticals.
• Monitor, review and audit performance of the customer-agency’s software and makes performance improvements.
• Provide expert advice, assistance or guidance of a highly technical nature concerning specialized application tools, hardware, software, or databases.
• Independently define data elements; design structures for databases; write and compile definitions and descriptions of data elements into dictionary form for use.
• Responsible for the preparation and supervision of formal system test procedures of highly complex application systems.
• Review the work of programmers working on the assigned system to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Prepare and monitor work plans and schedules to ensure timeliness.
• Participates in OTS AppDM team meetings and report status on work upon request.
• Provide technical knowledge transfer, training, documentation, mentorship and guidance to State personnel for requested work.

Skills/Experience Required

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:

• 5+ years of experience in web development with any combination of the following:
  • C#,
  • ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core,
  • SQL Server,
  • HTML,
  • Entity Framework (EF)
  • Other 3rd or 4th generation programming language (3GL or 4GL)
• 1+ years of experience with any combination of the following cloud services:
  • Azure App Services
  • Azure SQL Server
  • Azure DevOps
  • AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Previous experience supporting or maintaining applications for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
• Previous experience supporting or maintaining applications for the State of Louisiana.

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

• Developing applications with a public API and Swagger documentation for inbound integrations.
• Developing applications that utilize FluentValidation for server-side validation of form submissions.
• Developing applications that utilize Hangfire for background job processing.
• Developing applications that utilize CsvHelper to read and write CSV files.
• Developing applications that utilize third party APIs via RestSharp.
• Developing applications that utilize third party payment integrations.
• Utilizing PGP encryption to securely send and receive files.
• Writing stored procedures.
• Managing and maintaining source code in GitHub.
• Experience completing or managing work in Jira Atlassian software.
•  Experience maintaining documentation in Microsoft SharePoint.