Applications Developer at Dezign Concepts in Chantilly, VA

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20260717-MO103-06-01

Salary Range: Up to $225K **salary is commensurate with education and experience**

Job Summary

The office develops and implements talent management standards, strategies, programs, policies, and IT solutions that provide the foundation for its performance, personnel, and assignment management, processes, and systems. We require support to design, develop, maintain (including server administration, mandated migration activities, certification and accreditation, and operations and maintenance (O&M), and enhance a highly available suite of enterprise tools and custom web applications for its talent management efforts. As well as design, development, and maintenance of new applications, tools, and systems as needed.

The successful candidate will work with customers and within a small team to design and develop C# ASP.NET MVC web application solutions. Candidate will be working with the existing customer and development team to create functional enhancements to the existing HR applications. Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies will be essential for this position. The applicant should have experience in various web development technologies such as HTML, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, JSON, and XML. Proven experience developing applications using one or more of the development platforms is required with a preference towards the ServiceNow platform. Migration of some applications to other platforms and future development is expected.

The candidate is expected to actively participate in requirements capture and deployment strategy meetings with the customer, and will be responsible for application architecture, development, deployment, administration, systems operation, and testing. Additionally, the candidate must be equally comfortable working independently or with a team, be self-motivated, exhibit strong problem-solving skills, and have an aptitude for learning new technologies.

**Please note: This job requires an existing Top Secret Clearance and Polygraph**

Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop, maintain, integrate, update, and enhance Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and customized applications for survey and talent management tools for systems described below including:
• Integration with other human capital related enterprise systems such as performance appraisal and training
• Completion of security updates and alignment to must-use services;
• Accessibility and functional testing;
• Maintenance of development, test, and production environments for developed applications as required;
• Conduct unit and system testing in accordance with the Systems Requirements Document or User Stories and project management plan to ensure compliance with project requirements; and
• Support of User Acceptance Testing of developed applications and O&M of both software and hardware.
• Work with the office to recommend and implement improvements to existing tools, including transition of legacy tools to newer and more capable platforms.
• Ensure that all development and modifications to existing applications comply with security and architectural policies and regulations.
• Communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams. The Contractor shall be required to work with staff and contractor personnel, as well as internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintains enterprise-focused web applications utilizing various GOTS/COTS technologies and software hosted in the cloud along with enterprise application integrations.
• Provides .NET MVC web application design and development.
• Provides custom Ruby-on-Rails web application design and development.
• Provides Unit Testing, System/Integration Testing, and User Acceptance testing concepts and activities in the customer environment.
• Uses customer-approved DevSecOps tools and concepts to support the Security-focused design of highly usable and dynamic applications.
• Understands Accessibility standards when developing and maintaining applications to ensure compliance with Section 508 and more robust WCAG and organizational standards.

Experience Needed:

• Citizenship: Must Be a US Citizen
• Existing Clearance Required: Active Top Secret SCI with Poly
• Demonstrated experience in all phases of the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Software Lifecycle model, tracking issues and managing trouble tickets, testing software, writing test cases, and performance testing.
• Demonstrated experience with ServiceNow.
• Demonstrated experience using COGNOS and IBM SPSS Statistics, understanding SPSS syntax, and experience converting it into Cognos reports.
• Demonstrated experience using Oracle SQL and TM1.
• Demonstrated experience with JavaScript/JQuery/AJAX, HTML/CSS, Angular, or similar frameworks used to develop and implement User Interface and application components within the platform.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Update Sets in conjunction with the lifecycle management and promotion of features and bug fixes throughout the environment stack.
• Demonstrated experience using ServicePortal for UI Development of web interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining applications to meet required Accessibility standards (Section 508 and more robust WCAG and organizational standards).
• Demonstrated experience with HR-related and customer-specific datasets including limitations of those datasets and system/data flow dynamics.
• Demonstrated experience with Unit Testing, System/Integration Testing, and User Acceptance testing concepts and activities in the customer environment.
• Demonstrated experience using customer-approved DevSecOps tools and concepts to support the Security-focused design of highly usable and dynamic applications.
• Demonstrated experience with .NET MVC web application design and development.
• Demonstrated experience with custom Ruby-on-Rails web application design and development.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux and Windows Cloud Server management.
• Demonstrated experience managing Cloud infrastructure through cloud-native scripting languages and must-use enterprise tools and frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience with the ICD-503 process for accrediting applications and systems within the organization's network, including submission of evidence, and leading remediation efforts to address any risks or identified issues.

Other skills and demonstrated knowledge that are highly desired but not required to perform the work, include:

• Demonstrated experience with HR systems and tools
• Demonstrated experience with large datasets
• Demonstrated experience with survey administration and response analysis
• Demonstrated experience with Tableau, Power BI, or other data analytics tools
• Demonstrated experience with Project Management principles and Agile Development principles to assist with the planning, development, testing, and execution of a project and project activities
• Demonstrated experience with the RMF Framework along with Agile principles to ensure the effective mitigation of risk while operating in a dynamic Agile environment

Interested! Apply Now for immediate Consideration!

Health Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account and more.

Work/Life Balance

Paid Time Off, Holidays, Social Events, Employee Assistance Program and Team Building

Financial Opportunities

401K, Annual and Referral Bonuses and Tuition Assistance

Main Number: 1-888-663-2690 | [email protected] | http://www.dezign-concepts.com

Company Overview

At Dezign Concepts, we are building a collaboration of professionals to help supply commercial, government and the intelligence communities with the services they need to excel in current and future endeavors. We are a growing company where providing outstanding solutions and delivering impeccable service is our highest priority. We believe that great people make great companies and every day we strive to provide the type of environment that encourages creativity, growth and satisfaction.

Dezign Concepts provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.