Application Developer Ii/.Net Developer

This is an exempt (salaried) position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity. This is not a remote position.

Follow Your Calling, Find Your Career

The success of Mecklenburg County rests on strong, competent talent at all levels of the organization. We are a growing team of talented and passionate IT professionals who are dedicated to delivering creative tools and innovative solutions to engage and serve more than 1 million County residents as well as 6,000 employees. Our mission is to serve the residents of Mecklenburg County by providing business-valued IT solutions and services that are flexible, engaging, and innovative. Whether your passion is architecture, development, quality services, engineering, desktop support, or operations, we have a position for you. If you enjoy working with the public and are looking for a career where your work is important to the community, come be a part of Mecklenburg County and help us provide a community of pride and choice for people to live, learn, work, and recreate.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is the second level of the Application Developer series. Under the supervision of the Application Manager, the Application Developer in this class is responsible for working on new products and services related to power platform and .net, setting up standards, best practices, documenting process and providing technical support to service owner teams regarding their power platform and .net applications. As a member of the Center of Excellence (CoE) team, you will play key role in teaching the County power platform and .net developers to follow industry best practices and bring them up to speed with some of new improvements on both power platform and .net technologies and setup governance.

While this position requires expertise in .Net development, the hands on coding work will be 5%-10% of the role. As part of the Center of Excellence, you will be responsible for becoming an expert in Power Platform and knowledge sharing with other teams.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provide guidance and share best practices regarding Power Platform application development.

• Enhance current implementation of Microsoft Power Platform CoE and make progress on setting up standards and governance process using CoE toolkit.

• Research and setup CI/CD for Microsoft Power Platform applications.

• Keep up with latest changes on.NET platform and troubleshoot applications with application development team and make recommendations for improvement.

• Learn about upcoming changes on Microsoft Power Platform, document, and knowledge share with application development team.

• Perform Code Reviews and approve PR for code produced by other team members.

• Work in a team-based environment, communicating effectively with all levels of staff and management.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Experience: Minimum of three years of programming experience

Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted: Yes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with relational database (SQL Server) design and development.

• Familiarity with cloud development and deployment (Azure).

• Microsoft Power Platform

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of

• Current software development technologies, trends, and methodologies

• Common software engineering design patterns

• Enterprise application development in C#

• Experience with iterative and test-driven development practices

• Agile Methodology

• Azure DevOps

• .NET core and .NET framework.

Skills

• Power Platform applications such as PowerApps, Power Automate, Power Pages and Power BI.

• Experience developing or debugging on Power Platform plugins, Custom Workflows, client-side JavaScript, and PCF development.

• Experience with source code control (GIT) and software development on teams based on branching strategy.

• Experience developing in a continuous integration environment using source code control, automated testing and build automation.

Abilities

• Contributing to Team Success: Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals

• Building Partnerships: Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals

• Communication: Clearly conveys information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the information provided

• Collaboration: Works effectively and cooperatively with others; establishes and maintains good working relationships

• Customer Focus: Ensures that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafts and implements service practices that meet customers' and own organization's needs

• Decision Making: Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; compares data from different sources to draw conclusions; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences

• Driving for Results: Sets high goals for personal and group accomplishment; uses measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously works to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement

• Managing Conflict: Deals effectively with others in an adversarial situation; uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Advanced proficiency in current version of Visual Studio

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office

• Experience with SQL Server Reporting Service

• Experience with SQL Server Management Studio

• Experience with Visio

• Experience with Microsoft Project

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT

This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, requirements or working conditions. Other duties may be assigned based on business need and the supervisor's request. Mecklenburg County reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. Designated positions may be required to assist in emergency and/or disaster situations.