Senior Web Service Development Specialist

Length of Engagement: 12 months, with option to extend

Location of Work: Santa Clara County, CA 

Primary Responsibilities and experience we need;

• Design, develop and implement an web service and application interface to support current and future public safety technology requirements in Santa Clara County;

• Design, develop and implement a systems integration to support data sharing, business analytics, and reporting across multiple agencies and jurisdictions;

• Design, develop and implement an information privacy and security technologies that complies with local, State and Federal policies;

• Prepare weekly status reports;

• Coordinate with other ISD staff and management;

• Coordinate project activities with customers and external stakeholders;

• Designs, builds, tests, implements, maintains, and enhances complex web services and business application systems;

• Analyses business needs and proposes alternative solutions; develops analysis models, which involves diagramming the customer's business requirements, including semantic and graphical constructs and relationships, using object-oriented methodology;

• Participates in the development and execution of system and integration test plans;

• Assisting in the development and execution of user acceptance test plans;

• Assisting in the creation and maintenance of the Release Strategy and Plan;

• Participating in the creation and maintenance of the Back out/Recovery Plan and testing;

• Participating in the execution of the application version control, software library, and documentation;

• Conducting and participating in code reviews;

• Provides leadership and mentoring to other Web Service Development Specialists through cross-training on web services;

• Ability to analyse vendors’ software packages to facilitate troubleshooting and tracing issues

Experience we need;

• 5+ years of specific experience using programming languages and tools such as .Net, SOAP, WSDL, WADL, and Microsoft SQL RDBMS;

• 5+ year of experience with the following: .NET, JEE, SQL, Drools, Application servers (IIS, Apache, JBoss), scripting

• 3+ years of specific experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server;

• 5+ years of experience with high level requirements management including requirements decomposition, secure systems engineering and development, trade-off analysis, interface control, and testing and continuous integration;

• Expert in designing SOA technologies with SOAP and REST;

• Experience with defining and developing document instances;

• Experience with encryption standards to support securing SOA messaging;

• 5+ years of experience in software development on Agile teams using Agile Developer practices such as Pair Programming, Crystal, Refactoring, and ATDD;

• Experience with User Interface development, knowledge of databases and structures, and experience working with XHTML, HTML, XML, XSLT, Windows operating systems

• Must have a solid understanding of sound software development principles and practices

• Object-oriented software systems development life cycle;

• Principles and techniques of software and systems quality assurance and control;

• Test plan, test case, and test bed development and use;

• Principles and practices of technical problem solving;

• Principles, practices, and techniques of customer service;

• Principles and practices of project and technical documentation;

• Principles and techniques of programming, including programming languages and utilities;

• Concepts of backing up and recovering files;

• Application and program design and application analysis;

Skills Required:

• Define problems and recommend alternative solutions;

• Knowledge of technology integration strategies, methodologies and best practices;

• Data security and privacy restrictions on the storage, retrieval and transmission of public safety record information

• d Ability to implement and develop information technology application(s) to support County public safety and justice agencies

• Ability to work closely with agencies and department technical and management resources

• Must work be able to work independent and on a team, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team, in a fast-moving environment

• Must be able to plan and prioritize personal tasking and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 10+ years of related experience in software development. Additional years of applicable experience can be substituted for a degree.

web services, SOAP, wsdl, xml, dhtml, oops

Sonoma Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.