28 Jul

.NET Software Engineer – Chicago Loop

The .NET Software Engineer is part of a divisional IT team based in Chicago, IL. The team develops enterprise caliber software applications on the Microsoft .Net platform. The team is led by managers with software development backgrounds and strives to use modern practices and technologies to develop software the right way. There is a dynamic team environment that encourages collaboration among developers to make the whole team better.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Interacts with key business individuals to understand business issues and goals
  • Directs, prepares, designs, codes, tests, debugs, and maintains complex computer programs
  • Under general direction, formulates and defines system scope and objectives
  • Works with users to support business applications, and investigate operational problems/system requirements
  • Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results
  • Refines business requirements from which programs will be written
  • Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents those programs
  • Responsible for completion of development projects
  • Solves user inquiries that arise during day-to-day operation
  • Regularly provides coaching, guidance and training to less-experienced analysts/programmers
  • Develops business cases, requirements and performance metrics

 

 

Required:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Business
  • 5 or more years of application development architecture experience on the Microsoft platform
  • Prior experience serving as an IT liaison to business users for application requirements and end user support

 

  • Hands on technical experience with:
    • C# and the .NET Framework 3.5 and beyond
    • Web development experience including ASP.Net, HTML, XML, Javascript, AJAX, JQuery
    • Web services (ASMX, WCF, Web API)
    • Relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server
    • SQL Server Reporting Services

Desired:

  • Hands on technical experience with:
    • Linq and Entity Framework
    • Modern Javascript libraries (JQuery, AngularJS)
    • Webforms
    • MVC
    • WPF
    • Team Foundation Server
  • Understanding of systems development and project delivery life cycle
  • Experience with automated unit testing and test-assisted development
  • Experience with agile software development methodologies
  • Experience with automated build and deployment processes
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