Description
Our client is actively looking for a senior .Net WPF/WCF specialist to integrate the Metering development team. The objective of the team is to supply services for a series of critical core-applications for gasflow management:New Product development:
Enhancements on existing products
Support existing products
The candidate will be involved in all aspects of the services but will have a first specific assignment concerning one of the core metering applications made in WPF: Metro. The goal is to improve the performance of the application especially towards the binding and rendering strategy but also towards backend performance tuning. Therefore he will be able to propose impacting architectural improvements and work autonomously inside a very motivated and agile team.
Responsibilities:
Together with Tech Lead/Architect define a roadmap to improve the usability of the Metro application especially towards performance.
Modernize / Rewrite a large part of the UI, work on performance and usability aspects.
Improve performance on the backend and propose architectural improvements.
Testing (unit tests, integration tests).
Collaborate with operations teams to deploy/configure the software.
Technical skills:
Ability to develop on the .Net platform in a structured way according to the coding conventions and rules.
Master most of the technologies and practices used inside client:
o WPF, MVVM, Prism, MVVM Light,..
o C# 3.5 => 4.5
o Visual Studio 2013
o WCF
o NHibernate
o Unit Testing (Ms Test)
o TDD
Personal skills:
Communication
Skills
Ability to communicate with business analysts for understanding the specifications and
designs that form the basis for implementation
Ability to communicate with technical lead to understand the constraints of the architecture that must be followed.
Master one of both national languages (French/Dutch) and at least a passive
understanding (spoken) of the other. Fluent in English (written & spoken)
Ability to work relatively independently following the priorities and timing of the release plan
Ability to work structured following the procedures (check-in, check-out, time sheet reporting, punctuality)
Ability to work according to rules, standards and guidelines defined in the architecture
Ability to communicate realistic predictions about the development work
Ability to learn a complex business mode