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Senior WPF/WCF Developer - 6 months - Fr or Nld / Engl - BrusselsFunction Description
My 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. .
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) Personal Skills
- 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 model 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 :
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