Job Description
State of Wisconsin
BITS REQUEST FOR IT CONTRACT SERVICES
Date of Request 11/06/2024
Response Due Date 11/11/2024
Estimated Project Start Date 11/25/2024
Estimated Project End Date 06/30/2026
Telephone Number
Procuring Manager Name
Job Category, Title, Level
DWD/ASD/BITS/DET-DVR/Application Architect II
Access to Federal Tax Information (FTI)
Yes
No
Requested Rate $82.00
Brief Project Description
This is a position needed for the development and support of critical priority applications in the Division of Employmeny and Training. Candidates will play an integral role on self directed work teams in support of high priority development projects. Project work will include:
Positions in the classification are responsible for the design and management/governance of the agency's applications/software structural framework to align IT strategy plans and systems with the goals and requirements of the agency. Positions work closely with developers, creating road maps for applications and ensuring integration among information systems and the IT infrastructure. Create and maintain detailed documentation of applications architecture, configurations, and procedures.
Examples of typical duties include, but are not limited to:
Provide an architectural framework for information system application/software development, maintenance, and enhancement efforts.
Understand and evaluate user and process requirements to ensure those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables.
Establish agency guidelines and/or road maps for applications to align development plans and to ensure effective integration among IT systems and infrastructure
Evaluate and understand the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the agency; evaluate the impact of changes or additions.
Analyze systems and perform usability testing to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, and meet security requirements.
Serve as a liaison with other IT professionals and agency stakeholders to understand their needs, and, to evaluate emerging business issues that affect applications architecture/infrastructure
Monitor technological advancements to ensure solutions are continuously improved, supported,
and aligned with agency and industry standards.
Hardware/Software Environment
ASP.NET Core (v6, 8), Blazor Framework, MudBlazor Material Design Library, Microservices Architecture, GitHub, Jira, Oracle PL-SQL, Azure SQL. Legacy systems include: VB.NET, C#, Object Oriented Design, MVC, MVVM, Visual Studio.NET, MS Team Foundation Server
Additional Comments
Previous work experience in government, insurance, accounting, or case management is required.
Previous work experience in online transaction processing (OLTP) web application development and batch processing required.
Must-Haves (6 yrs):
- Experience leading teams, planning and estimating projects, guiding underlying application architecture, establishing governance of process and best practices
- Experience with implementation and ongoing support of multi-platform applications.
- Keeping a strong pulse on technological trends, making recommendations on emerging technologies, and identifying problems that can be solved with emerging tools.
BIT-16327-E (R. 08/2019)
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience guiding architecture and development using Blazor framework with MudBlazor components. (2 yrs)
- Experience working at a government agency that leverages a customized Agile development lifecycle, but may modify the lifecycle work within constraints often felt in government work. (2 yrs)
- Experience working in a technical environment with a wide array of technologies, from
ASP.NET
, batch processes, to modern frameworks and microservices. (6 yrs)
The successful candidate will be highly technically competent, a consistently high producer, a good communicator, solutions-oriented, enthusaiastic to mentor junior developers, a technical thought leader, and overall team player. All candidates submitted with inconsistencies or falsifications in their credentials will be disqualified and DOA purchasing will be notified.
Qualifications (check all that apply):
Years
Must
Nice to
Desired
Have
Have
Administrative/Technical Writing
Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation
6
General Competencies
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Analytical/problem solving skills
Information Technology - Applications
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
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
6
6
6
Information Technology - Architecture
Evaluate and recommend programming languages, design tools and applications
6
Information Technology - Software
Scripting - Winbatch, VBScript, AutoIT, PowerShell, DOS Batch, etc.
4
MS Office Products
Microsoft AD Administration Tools
Active Directory Tools
MS Office 2010/0365
Software Packaging - Admin Studio, etc.
Project (MS)
Excel (MS)
Information Technology - Commonly Used Software
Word (MS)
Outlook (MS)
MS Windows 7/Windows 10 - System Configuration/Upgrade
Qualifications (check all that apply):
Administration - Project Management
Change management
Understanding of project management methodologies and experience
with 'agile'
Project Management
Information Technology - Design
-
Data modeling
MVVM (Model View View Model)
Structured Analysis and Design of Web and Client-Server applications
for both transactional and batch applications
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
Information Technology - Desktop Support
3rd Level IT Problem Resolution
Desktop Management Systems (LANDesk/SCCM-Patching/Software Deployment, etc.)
Active Directory
Information Technology - Directory Services
Information Technology - Databases
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
Years
Must
Nice to
Desired
Have
Have
6
6
4
4
6
Stored procedures and triggers
3
Experience in extract, transform, and load coding using Informatica
Oracle
3
Oracle SQL tuning
3
SQL Client tools
SQL Server
Logical Database Design
•?
Qualifications (check all that apply):
Years
Must
Nice to
Desired
Have
Have
Information Technology - Languages/Tools
.Net (MS)
5
ASP.NET
VB.NET
CICS (Customer Information Control System)
3
X
3
Business Objects
C#.net
Cobol
JCL
SAS
SQL
5
Visual Basic for Apps (VBA) in MS Access 2010
MVC (Model View Controller)
3
3
X
Team Foundation Server
Macros in MS Access 2003
Information Technology - Network/Infrastructure
Experience with Oracle PL/SQL
Information Technology - Operating Systems
Operating system administration (e.g., monitoring, process control, threads, upgrades and patching)
Information Technology - Requirements
Documenting requirements
3
6
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
6
In-Depth Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle Deliverables for each phase of development
6
Requirements analysis
6
Requirements gathering
6
X
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
Qualifications (check all that apply):
Years
Must
Nice to
Desired
Have
Have
Information Technology - Security
RACF
Implement and enforce security requirements
Experience with HYENA
Experience with RSA
Experience with SecureDoc Encryption
Information Technology - System Monitoring/Automation
Changeman
Control M
Information Technology - Testing
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
GitHub
Blazor Framework
Jira
MudBlazor Material Design Library
Others
3
2
X
2
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Job Tags
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