Beacon Technologies is seeking a .Net Web Developer III for our client partner. This is a technical position needed to drive the development and support of the Vocational Information System for Tracking Advancement (VISTA) modernization project, a full replacement of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation's case management system. Candidates will play an integral role on self-directed project teams working on this high priority development project. Project work will include application design and development, integration with 3rd party internal and external systems, database technology migration from Oracle to Azure SQL and data conversion, building and maintaining cloud computing environments, and analysis of legacy code and logical requirements. Advising on and executing documentation, unit testing, and cross testing best practices. Successful candidates will have demonstrated success in designing, creating, and maintaining web services, system integrations, web development, and highly complex online transaction processing (OLTP).

Hardware/Software Environment:

• Azure SQL
• .NET Framework 6
• .NET Framework 8
• Blazor Framework
• MudBlazor Material Design Library\
• Visual Studio .NET
• Azure Cloud Computing Platform
• GitHub
• Jira
• Swagger
• Microservices Architecture

Top Required Skills & Years of Experience:

• Experience as a lead developer in a large application development project, preferably involving modernization of technology, as well as working with a cross-functional team to redesign and simplify UX and workflows to meet modern application design standards, using a material design library and component framework, such as MudBlazor - at least 2 years' experience.
• Candidate must be a .NET expert with extensive experience using ASP.NET Core v6-8 - at least 2 years' experience.
• Experience in Azure SQL cloud database solution - at least 1 year experience.
• Experience with GitHub distributed version control and using GitHub actions to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines - at least 1 year experience.

Top Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• Experience using LINQ or Entity Framework.
• Previous experience providing this service for government a plus, and experience with environments will be especially valuable.

Qualifications & Desired Years of Experience:

• Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation 8
• 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 8
• 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 8
• 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.
• Project (MS) 1
• Excel (MS) 5
• Word (MS) 5
• Outlook (MS) 1
• MS Windows 7/Windows 10 – System Configuration/Upgrade

Preferred Qualifications & Desired Years of Experience:

• Administration - Project Management
• Change management 5
• Understanding of project management methodologies and experience with 'agile' 5
• Project Management 3
• Information Technology – Design
• 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) 8
• ASP.NET 3
• VB.NET 3
• CICS (Customer Information Control System)
• Business Objects
• C#.net
• 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 8
• 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 8
• Requirements analysis 8
• Requirements gathering 8
• 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 1
• Knowledge of State of Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Systems
• 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 5
• Experience in Azure SQL database 5
• 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.