Senior Software Engineer
GDH

Peraton has an opening for a Senior Software Engineer to join our development team. This is a contract position reporting to the Applications Development Manager. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded technical professional with well-esablished communication and leadership skills.

Key Skills:

The Senior Engineer must be able to demonstrate experience designing, re-designing, or updating legacy software systems, and become the subject matter and system expert.

• Senior level, lead engineering expertise in web applications and infrastructure, the .NET framework, relational databases, and design patterns
• Highly self-motivated individual who has the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to design, develop, test, support, maintain and debug software applications
• Establish and sustain successful relationships with high-profile executive stakeholders
• Think critically and present complex technical information succinctly and accurately to a variety of audiences

Responsibilities:

This individual will engage in all development and database activities of the current system. He or she will collaborate in a team environment with other developers, management, and end users.

• Participate in the full life cycle of development activities - define, develop, test, install, document, and maintain
• Maintain a source control and inventory system to ensure proper version control
• Create and maintain documentation, including data models, data dictionaries, stored procedures, functional and technical design documents, acceptance test plans, and production release schedules
• Ability to translate system requirements into technical specifications, processes, and data mapping for existing system and system modifications
• Evaluate feasibility of enhancements requested by the user community
• Respond to upgrades needed to comply with new regulations
• Support activities and tickets with an internal Help Desk team that provides phone support to end users
• Follow systems engineering, development, and deployment best practices

Programming Skills:

· Minimum 8+ years of experience in software engineering of web applications within the Microsoft stack (ASP.Net, C#/VB.Net, .NET Framework and/or .NETCore)

• Proficiency with Microsoft Visual Studio
• Experience creating and maintaining data forms with tools such as .NET data binding for Windows applications
• Knowledge of Object Oriented design processes and patterns
• Familiar with source control, preferrably Visual Studio Team Foundation

Database Skills:

• Expertise in writing queries as well as insert/update/delete SQL statements
• Expertise in database management via direct UPDATES, embedded SQL and dynamic SQL such as stored procedures
• Ability to document database design (Entity Relationship Diagams, Dataflows)
• Experience in transforming business requirements to data objects and relationships
• Applied use and understanding of database principles - entities, relationships, indexes, triggers, normalization
• Experience writing stored procedures, functions, and packages

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to interface with non-technical users
• Experience with customer service, IT help desk, or focus groups is a plus
• Team leadership and mentorship; experience directing more junior developers is a plus

The person who takes this role will spend their first 6 weeks (orientation) onsite, 5 days a week, in the client's Boston office at 1 Ashburton Place.

After this orientation period, the person in this role will be in a hybrid onsite schedule with a minimum of 3 days per week, at the same Boston location. The role could revert to full time onsite in Boston 5 days per week at any time.

Candidates will ONLY be considered if they live locally to Boston. Candidates who live more than 2 hours from downtown Boston will not be considered.

Restricted time off periods are determined by management around critical support needs. These dates are provided in advance, and there may be a requirement to be onsite and to work additional hours outside of a standard business day, including evenings and weekends.