This is an exempt position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity.

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 third level of the Application Developer series. This position, with minimal supervision, is responsible for designing, coding, testing, correcting, documenting, and reviewing complex programs and scripts from agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result. The Application Developer in this class is responsible for leading an application development team to deliver applications based on detailed specifications. The primary function domain for this position is Health and Human Services, which contains a large portfolio of Microsoft Power Platform and ASP.NET applications. Strong preference will be given to candidates holding a Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600) or Developer Associate (PL-400) Certification from Microsoft.

Essential Functions

• Develop, design, and implement automated application built upon Microsoft Power Platform/Dynamics 365 CE in a lead role
• Develop, design, and implement automated application built upon Microsoft ASP.NET Core on Azure in a lead role
• Provide guidance and sharing best practices regarding Power Platform (Power Apps with focus on Model -Driven Apps) and ASP.NET development
• Design, code, test, deploy, maintain, enhance, and support County software systems
• Perform Code Reviews and approve Pull Requests for code produced by other team members
• Work with business customers and IT business analysts in translating requirements into plans and specifications
• Work in a team-based environment, communicating effectively with all levels of staff and management
• Produce design and other technical documentation
• Provide work estimates to project team
• Troubleshoot applications and make recommendations for improvement
• Coach and mentor other developers on the team
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Experience: Minimum of five 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

• Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600) certification
• PowerApps/Dynamics 365 Plugin, Custom Workflow, Client JavaScript, PCF development
• .NET 8 development on Azure Platform Service As A Platform
• System integration experience (Azure Service Bus, Messaging Queue, SSIS)
  
  

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
  
  

Skills

• Experience Microsoft.NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core development
• Experience with source code control (GIT/TFS) and software configuration management tools
• Experience with relational database (SQL Server) design and development
• Experience with JS libraries, HTML5, and CSS
• Experience developing in a continuous integration environment using source code control, automated testing, and build automation
• Experience with agile development practices
  
  

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 ones 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 organizations 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
• Team Lead: Ability to lead development teams to complete project goals
  
  

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 supervisors 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.