Description
Seeking a seasoned (5+ years' experience) .NET architect and Software Engineer with a strong proficiency in Application Lifecycle Management and Team Foundation Server. This person will be involved in influencing the strategic technology direction of the organization and a key contributor to the rollout of our ALM in the enterprise.Responsibilities:
- Understanding, analysis, & assessment of the Client environments, requirements, and their ALM maturity
- Understanding current environment, migration toolsets, and applications developed for it ALM process.
- How it utilizes TFS for managing work;
- EMT for migration of code;
- SDE for logging of Changes;
- Understand Client' SOX requirements regarding migration of code to production
- Understanding of scope of applications that the process applies to Internally developed VB vs non-VB External software
- Hybrid of internally & Externally developed.
- Understanding of Client type of migration
- Full Release (complete deployment of application and all of its components)
- Partial Release (release of a subset of the applications)
- Understanding of components that need to be tracked and migrated
- Items tracked and managed by TFS
- Items not tracked and managed by TFS
Create and provide the appropriate design documents and roadmap based on Client specifications for the following:
Modifications to the process to insure only approved work/components are moved to the production environment. Modifications to the process to insure work/components are not updated after they have been approved. Guide software development teams in ALM best practices and principles in alignment with the strategic direction of the organization
Education:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
- Area of Study: Computer Science or Management Information System
Skill set & Experience:
- 3-5 years with customizing TFS Build Automation (custom Work Flow activities)
- 3-5 years designing and implementing branching and merging strategies.
- 3-5 years of Architecting, Building, and Deploying applications
- Able to work independently in drafting and designing alternatives and presenting to the group for review.
- Candidates must have hands-on implementation experience and broad knowledge of the .NET platform, ALM, TFS 2010+and Visual Studio 2012+.
- Strong hands-on technical skills, an analytical problem-solving mindset, delivery focus and client-orientation are all critical to the success of the architect.
- Depth and breadth of both knowledge and hands-on implementation experience with Microsoft .NET development platform and related tools
- Extensive project experience performing software development, including .NET implementation experience and at least a few years architecting .NET applications
- Solid understanding of database technology, including SQL Server and Oracle
- Working ability to identify architecturally significant requirements and their ramifications
- Experience architecting, designing, and implementing DevOps process and procedures using Agile methodologies.
- MCSD ALM certification preferred