Junior Developer and Programmer

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

This is an on-site role in Washington, D.C.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to IT Strategy under the supervision and guidance of the primary Practice Lead, Product Manager, or Tech Lead.
• Support the Product Manager in developing the strategy through the incremental improvement of the product.
• Lead and influence senior business stakeholders in sessions that identify transformation opportunities
• Thought leader with the ability to describe how cloud-native technology can enable digital transformation and improve business value.
• Understand the long and short-term perspectives of situations and how they relate to achieving targeted business outcomes.
• Gather requirements and translate them into user stories for the agile delivery team
• Analyze, document, and test program development, logic, process flows, and specifications.
• Contribute to the design of business scenarios and use cases for the product mix, including product introduction, specification, and the change management required to maximize its adoption/value
• Identify gaps in existing functionalities, options for improvement, and opportunities for process automation.
• Work with business partners to conduct solutioning sessions and MVP taste-testing all along the life cycle from business demand to value delivery.
• Assesses near-term needs, using structured interview processes and consumer research methods to understand opportunities and help the business establish priorities.
• Consult with product teams and proposes alternative solutions. Provide advice on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business processes and product priorities. 

Technical Skills:

• C#
• JavaScriptNet Core 3
• ASP.NET MVC
• Razor Views
• jQuery
• Database design, data modeling concepts, and SQL scripts.
• Entity Framework (general)
• Entity Framework Code First
• Entity Framework Code First Migrations
• LINQ (general)
• LINQ to Entities
• Bootstrap
• Telerik or Kendo 

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.