Typical duties include, but are not limited to: • Provide an architectural framework for information system application/software development, maintenance, and enhancement efforts. • Understand and evaluate user and process requirements to ensure those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables. • Establish agency guidelines and/or road maps for applications to align development plans and to ensure effective integration among IT systems and infrastructure • Evaluate and understand the interactions between systems, applications, and services within the agency; evaluate the impact of changes or additions. • Analyze systems and perform usability testing to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, and meet security requirements. • Serve as a liaison with other IT professionals and agency stakeholders to understand their needs, and, to evaluate emerging business issues that affect applications architecture/infrastructure • Monitor technological advancements to ensure solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with agency and industry standards. The successful candidate will be highly technically competent, a consistently high producer, a good communicator, solutions-oriented, enthusaiastic to mentor junior developers, a technical thought leader, and overall team player. All candidates submitted with inconsistencies or falsifications in their credentials will be disqualified and DOA purchasing will be notified. Hardware/Software Environment: • ASP.NET Core (v6, 8), Blazor Framework, MudBlazor Material Design Library, Microservices Architecture, GitHub, Jira, Oracle PL-SQL, Azure SQL. Legacy systems include: VB.NET, C#, Object Oriented Design, MVC, MVVM, Visual Studio.NET, MS Team Foundation Server Top Required Skills & 6 Years of Experience: • Experience leading teams, planning and estimating projects, guiding underlying application architecture, establishing governance of process and best practices • Experience with implementation and ongoing support of multi-platform applications. • Keeping a strong pulse on technological trends, making recommendations on emerging technologies, and identifying problems that can be solved with emerging tools. • Previous work experience in government, insurance, accounting, or case management is required. • Previous work experience in online transaction processing (OLTP) web application development and batch processing required. Nice-to-Haves: • Experience guiding architecture and development using Blazor framework with MudBlazor components. • Experience working at a government agency that leverages a customized Agile development lifecycle but may modify the lifecycle work within constraints often felt in government work. • Experience working in a technical environment with a wide array of technologies, from ASP.NET, batch processes, to modern frameworks and microservices. • Google Cloud experience preferred. • Blazor Framework experience preferred.