Software Developer / Programmer 3

ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Software Developer / Programmer 3 position will support the Study Automation (ARES) Team within the Transmission Operations Development Group. This team is involved in the creation of business process automation and documentation by interpreting design specifications, assisting with technical design, coding software, following testing and deployment procedures, complying with project documentation requirements, and working on a development team that uses a mix of development methodologies, including Agile, as a process automation software developer. The ideal candidate keeps abreast of industry developments related to network system infrastructure technology and maintains a high level of attention to detail to prevent accidental system outages or other issues. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA., * With manager oversight and approval:

• Assist with gathering and transforming information/data for prototyping automation efforts.
• Build and maintain data models and mapping relationships between several systems to support power flow studies and other automation efforts.
• Align models where practical
• Communicate the data models to our customers
• Design, document, and communicate effective technical solutions meeting end-user requirements.
• Design, develop, test and deploy n-tier C# .Net applications utilizing the .Net framework
• Work collaboratively with users and technical staff to design streamlined user interfaces.
• Analyze, test, and apply changes to the application environment under the prevailing change management procedures and requirements.
• Identify or resolve problems in applications at all system tiers (Application, Server, Database, and Network).
• Ability to analyze data, identify quality assurance/quality control issues, and identify failure or maintenance trends, including issues that may have origins in upstream systems.
• Productively integrate with an existing Agile development team.
• Collaborate with project managers, business analysts, software developers, QA testers, and users throughout the System Life Cycle (SLC).
• Provide emergency and backup support for existing systems and functions.
• With manager/team lead oversight and approval, when needed, assume the role and responsibilities of a technical lead, which includes the following:
• Break down technical work into tasks and provide reasonable time estimates for completion.
• Communicate status of project development work to project team, users, information system owners and others.
• Analyze and propose technical designs that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements which also optimize the long- term maintainability of the system.
• Identify and escalate technical bottlenecks and impediments to the project manager and information system owner.
• Produce required project technical documentation.
• Review other developers' code and provide technical constructive feedback where necessary to verify their code follows the team coding standards and programming best practices.
• Interpret design requirements and assist in technical design on related projects.
• Provide infrequent technical training to peers.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement system security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.
• Monitor system performance to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
• Confer with system users about how to solve existing system problems.
• Support Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards and North American Electric Reliability Corporation critical infrastructure protection (NERC-CIP) compliance when performing assigned work.
• Analyze and propose technical designs that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements which also optimize the long-term maintainability of the system.
• Mentor and assist other team members with application development.

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Systems, Engineering or a directly related field is preferred.
• 5 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor's or associate degree.
• 7 years of experience is required without an applicable bachelor's or associate degree or no degree.
• Applicable certifications may count for 1 year of experience.
• Experience must include direct work experience in Computer/Information Technology.
• 7 years of the following experience:
• Developing with .NET framework, C#, ReactJS, and SQL
• .NET programming within an experienced development team
• Object Oriented design principles
• Database Access (i.e. Entity Framework, NHibernate, ADO.NET)
• .NET Remoting, COM, and DCOM
• Microsoft Visual Studio IDE
• Experience with T-SQL development to write complex queries involving multiple tables. Experience in Extracting, Transforming and Loading (ETL) data from Excel, flat files, BCP utility, DTS, SSIS, and SSRS services
• Microsoft Office Suite applications, specifically PowerPoint, Access, and Project
• Utility industry experience
• Knowledge of and proficient skill in applying the following:
• Designing and/or maintaining high availability systems having 24×7 support
• Version Control Systems
• Proven experience collaborating with software developers, testers and users throughout the System Life Cycle (SLC)
• Ability to create and maintain clearly written technical, user, and system documentation
• Ability to analyze information and use logic to address work related issues and problems, with understanding of impact on current and future programs and processes.
• Provide a sustainable IT infrastructure by supplying cross training and functional documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly become familiar with existing systems and codebases
• Experience using or automating PowerWorld Simulator or other electric power system simulation software (such as GE PSLF and V&R ROSE) is preferred
• Microsoft PowerShell
• Web services and socket-based protocols (i.e. XPATH, XML Schemas, XSLT, WCF, SOAP)
• Web application development using MVC
• Windows application development using WPF
• Version Control Systems (i.e. TFS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial)
• Current experience practicing test-driven development using test automation frameworks/tools (i.e., NUnit, MSTest, Moq, Rhino Mock, TypeMock, Pester)
• Exposure to other programming languages (i.e. C++, Java)
• Windows Cluster Server administration
• Must produce code that coworkers can maintain and must be agreeable to peer reviews
• Ability to take over support of code written by other developers
• Excel at solving problems by debugging, troubleshooting
• Designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues.
• Governmental processes and (electric) utility experience
• Valid U.S. Driver's License is required.

Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position.

Benefit options available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%) * Other benefits include the following: Calm App, LifeBalance Discount Program