Application Architect III

Posted on August 21, 2025

Location

Remote (WI Residents Only)
146378

Position Details

Full-Time

Job Summary

Beacon Technologies is seeking an Application Architect III for our client partner. This is a technical leadership position needed to drive the development and support of the Unemployment Division modernization projects. The projects are but not limited to technical refresh of legacy system, enhancement to Claimant and Employer portals, new functionality as defined by business partners, and upgrade of infrastructure (servers, tools and database) to support UI systems. Project work will include: application architecture design and development, development of user stories, quarterly planning strategies, product roadmaps, and other key strategic deliverables; selection and review of on premise and cloud tools and technology; code reviews and work item reviews to ensure that they meet the department's technical objectives and are compliant with required security requirements; and in-the-weeds development using a variety of languages and tools. Successful candidates will have demonstrated success in designing, creating, and maintaining web services, system integration, web development, highly complex online transaction processing (OLTP) and Agile Scrum development methodology.

Hardware/Software Environment:

  • .NET Framework 8
  • Blazor Framework
  • Visual Studio .NET
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • Swagger

Additional Comments:

  • Top 3 skills needed for this position are:
  • .NET Core 8
  • GitHub
  • Blazor

Nice to have skills:

  • Jira
  • Dynatrace
  • On premise Database used are Oracle, DB2, and SQL server

Qualifications & Years of Experience:

  • Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation 12
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Analytical/problem solving skills
  • Application Development and Support of CICS/DB2/COBOL/JCL Mainframe Systems: Using Changeman, CNTL-M or the like
  • Web and client-server application development experience, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, implementation, and support 12
  • Mainframe Application Experience (SQL/COBOL/CICS/JCL/DB2)
  • Including Ability to identify and Create Test Data, Creating and Modifying Files and JCL in order to test the accuracy of System Modifications
  • Knowledge of Electronic Document Management, BPM, Workflow, and Scan/Capture software using products such as eDocs and Kofax Total Agility
  • Analysis and Design of Mainframe Applications
  • Evaluate and recommend programming languages, design tools and applications 12
  • Scripting – Winbatch, VBScript, AutoIT, PowerShell, DOS Batch, etc.
  • MS Office Products 1
  • Microsoft AD Administration Tools
  • Active Directory Tools
  • MS Office 2010/O365 1
  • Software Packaging – Admin Studio, etc.
  • Information Technology - Commonly Used Software
  • Project (MS) 1
  • Excel (MS) 5
  • Word (MS) 5
  • Outlook (MS) 1
  • MS Windows 7/Windows 10 – System Configuration/Upgrade
  • Change management 5
  • Understanding of project management methodologies and experience with 'agile' 5
  • Project Management 3
  • Data modeling 3
  • MVVM (Model View View Model) 3
  • Structured Analysis and Design of Web and Client-Server applications for both transactional and batch applications 8
  • WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
  • 3rd Level IT Problem Resolution
  • Desktop Management Systems (LANDesk/SCCM-Patching/Software Deployment, etc.)
  • Active Directory 3
  • Access
  • Data flow and structure modeling
  • Experience in data warehouse design and development
  • Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse
  • Data warehouse performance tuning
  • Data warehousing
  • DB2
  • Stored procedures and triggers
  • Experience in extract, transform, and load coding using Informatica
  • Oracle 3
  • Oracle SQL tuning 3
  • SQL Client tools 5
  • SQL Server 5
  • Logical Database Design
  • .Net (MS) 12
  • ASP.NET 3
  • VB.NET 3
  • CICS (Customer Information Control System)
  • Business Objects
  • C#.net 3
  • Cobol
  • JCL
  • SAS
  • SQL
  • Visual Basic for Apps (VBA) in MS Access 2010
  • MVC (Model View Controller)
  • Team Foundation Server
  • Macros in MS Access 2003
  • Experience with Oracle PL/SQL
  • Operating system administration (e.g., monitoring, process control, threads, upgrades and patching)
  • Documenting requirements 12
  • Execution and Documentation of Regression, System & User
  • Acceptance Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Results for a Large Mainframe System
  • Experience as a developer in a large, very complex organization 5
  • In-Depth Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle Deliverables for each phase of development 12
  • Requirements analysis 12
  • Requirements gathering 12
  • IT Technologies – skills and concepts
  • Advanced Structured Analysis and Design for Online and Batch DB2/CICS/MVS COBOL Mainframe using SPUFI, SQL, FILEAID, VISIO,or the like
  • Knowledge of State of Wisconsin Employment & Training Systems
  • Knowledge of State of Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Systems 1
  • RACF
  • Implement and enforce security requirements 2
  • Experience with HYENA
  • Experience with RSA
  • Experience with SecureDoc Encryption
  • Changeman
  • Control M 1
  • Experience using SQL, SPUFI, Platinum, Fileaid, QMF Tools or
  • Equivalent, to Identify, Create and Validate Test Data for DB2 Mainframe Systems
  • User test, System test, and User Acceptance test plans 5
  • Experience in Azure Cloud development 3
  • Experience in Azure SQL database 3
  • Experience using GitHub 3
  • Experience building and using GitHub CI/CD pipelines 3

 

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affirmative Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.