Application Programmer(Power Builder)

Description

Summary Looking for a strong development candidate to perform sustainment and needed modification of the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) Budget and Accounting System for Education (BASE) application. Candidate must possess strong understanding of financial principles, to include funding management principles and practices, and tracking methodologies. Candidate must have experience developing and maintaining systems using Powerbuilder Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Powerscript, JSON, XML, SQL Server, Sybase tools, Appeon tools, Microsoft Excel, and Mail Merging Functionality. Contractor Responsibilities Prepares a wide variety of design, programming, and documentation tasks necessary for the development, implementation, and sustainment of IT applications Develops and maintains software solutions by studying requirements analysis and information needs; conferring with stakeholders and IT management; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; performs software design using software development fundamentals and processes, debug, test, and deploy software solutions Uses various programming languages and tools to include but not limited to Powerbuilder IDE, Powerscript, JSON, XML, SQL Server, Sybase tools, Appeon tools, Microsoft Excel, SharePoint Designer Workflows, CSOM, REST API, PHP, Active Server Page (ASP), Visual Studio, Visual Basic, HTML, JavaScript, JAVA, JAVA Applets, visual basic script, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Ajax, and other related languages and tools for the development and deployment of applications and web applications Develops logic and implements secure coding solutions to prevent/mitigate coding vulnerabilities such a SQLInjection and crosssite scripting Creates normalized database tables and SQL queries in MS SQL Server, other Relational Database Management Systems and database tools Performs basic database administration tasks, performance optimization, index optimization, and writes advanced select queries Plans and coordinates the development of data structures, identifies specific data elements to be used in the system, designs, develops or modifies relational databases Follows prescribed USBE data standards, policies and procedures, information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices Prepares project plans, functional requirements, charters, timelines, coordinates meetings, budgets, statements of work, standard operating procedures, status reports, cost benefit analysis and resource utilization estimates Assists in the development and completion of Problem Statements and Business Case Analysis Oversees the coordination of the installation, testing, operating, troubleshooting, and maintenance of systems Works with customers to identify report requirements to translate data elements from the database to workable reports for the endusers and upper management Evaluates and provides guidance to project team members on the process employed in the analysis, design, documentation, and testing and/or evaluation of systems or segments of systems Applies understanding of financial principles, to include funding management principles and practices, and tracking methodologies to system development and sustainment activities Agency Scoring Criteria 10% Confirmation of ability to perform all aspects of the SOW. Resume, RTR, MMR and All inclusive bill rate included without needing to request anything incomplete. 60% Technical Criteria a. Degreeb. Programmingc. Attention to detaild. Customer Servicee. Comminicationf. Problem Solvingg. Financial Principles