Senior GIS Applications Developer

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.

Ardent is seeking a Senior GIS Applications Developer to join our team.  

This is a remote role/hybrid role ideally located in the Washington, D.C. metro.

Position Description:

We are seeking a Senior Applications Developer that is well rounded with the willingness and desire to not only build applications but have a client facing role. An ideal candidate is passionate about technology, learning new things, and applying technology to solve our Nation’s most critical challenges. This is an opportunity to be part of a dynamic team and to grow with a company that rewards hard work. This opportunity involves working directly with applications to support the Homeland Security enterprise. You will provide hands-on software design and development expertise for multiple programming languages and system environments, collaborate with other team members, project sponsors, and government personnel to devise practical solutions to problems. 

Responsibilities:

• Providing oversight of the application development tasks; monitoring cross functional team activities to achieve optimal performance and ensure quality deliverables are being provided for the client in accordance with mutually agreed upon delivery schedules;
• Working collaboratively with team members to troubleshoot, resolve and implement required changes in the development, test, staging, and production environments;
• Leading efforts to create requirements, designs, and specifications for complex or highly technical Web applications; which may require extensive research and analysis;
• Translating functional requirements into technical solutions for application development;
• Writing, editing content and coordinating updates to existing websites;
• Ensuring projects are developed with professional level standards for site performance, usability, scalability, browser compatibility and reliability;
• Reviewing designs and maintain compliance with application, infrastructure, architecture and security;
• Oversee the development of required logic, algorithms and code for the applications;
• Working with users during integration testing to identify errors, fix coding errors, and implement requested changes;
• Reviewing logical data models (entity relationship, business process, and process flow;
• Building physical data models (conversion of logical models in relational database models);
• Working with database administrators to coordinate necessary changes to the database structure;
• Utilizing SDLC or Agile methodologies to ensure applications are functioning properly before production deployment;
• Working with Enterprise Cyber Security and the Systems Team to mitigate security findings, if any;
• Participating in the Change Control Board (CCB) at various levels;
• Providing status reports of bi-weekly or monthly accomplishments;
• Coordinating with the Operations Team and the Enterprise to perform mission systems maintenance during Government scheduled maintenance windows.

Requirements:

• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills. 
• Experience with Agile methodologies and working with Agile based delivery teams
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies to ever changing problems. 
• Expertise in principles of object-oriented software design and programming. 
• Understanding of relational database design technologies such as SQL and AWS RDS for SQL Server
• Knowledge and experience with XML technology such as XSLT, XML Schema, and XML Namespaces 
• Knowledge and experience with JSON and object serialization 
• Ability to write and present technical material in the form of client meetings, test plans and reports, technical reports, and presentations. 
• Ability to thrive in a diverse team environment consisting of colleagues, project sponsors, government contractors, or other government personnel. 
• Knowledge of fundamental IP-based networking principles
• Knowledge of fundamental virtualization principles
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 6+ years experience

Desired skills:

• Experience with .NET WebAPI2 and .NET Core
• Experience with Amazon Web Services: EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3 
• Experience with Serverless architecture, preferably AWS
• DevOps tooling; CI/CD pipeline concepts and design 
• Comfortable working in both Windows and Linux 
• Experience with UI / front end (JS, HTML, CSS) design and development
• ESRI suite of products a ++

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.