[Hiring] Applications Developer @I.T. Solutions Provider

Role Description

SMX Services & Consulting is seeking two Senior Applications Developers to support the modernization of USDA NASS's mission-critical GENESIS application. GENESIS currently relies on legacy SAS/AF and SCL technologies. The modernization effort will replace the legacy environment with a modern, browser-based user interface and modular service-oriented backend while maintaining the functionality required for NASS's sampling operations.

These are hands-on senior development positions. The selected developers will contribute across:

• Frontend development
• Backend services
• API development
• Enterprise integration
• Data access
• Automated testing
• Security
• Accessibility
• Migration from the legacy application

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development of the modernized GENESIS application.
• Build modern frontend user-interface components.
• Develop backend application services.
• Develop RESTful APIs and modular services.
• Implement sampling parameter-entry capabilities.
• Implement sample-size management and sample-creation workflows.
• Support replication, review, approval, and export functionality.
• Build data-exchange components and enterprise-system connectors.
• Support Sample Master export modernization.
• Integrate with NASS enterprise databases and downstream systems.
• Develop functionality supporting Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Support modular sampling algorithm services.
• Enable interoperability with statistical tools including R, Python, and SAS.
• Implement robust logging, metrics, debugging, and error handling.
• Develop automated unit and integration testing.
• Support parallel testing against the legacy GENESIS system.
• Help ensure deterministic and reproducible system outputs.
• Implement secure coding practices.
• Support RBAC, authentication, and audit logging.
• Ensure Section 508 accessibility requirements are incorporated into development.
• Participate in peer reviews and coding-standard development.
• Produce technical documentation.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and risk discussions.
• Provide knowledge transfer to NASS personnel.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of hands-on software-development experience.
• At least 3 years building and supporting enterprise-scale web applications.
• Experience leading development activities involving at least one of:
  • Application modernization
  • Cloud migration
  • Service-oriented architecture
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical tasks.
• Ability to develop reasonable level-of-effort estimates.
• Strong communication skills for working with statisticians, architects, engineers, and government technical SMEs.

Core Technical Skills

• Strong experience in:
  • C#
  • .NET
  • .NET Blazor
  • Java and/or Python where applicable
  • Modern browser-based application development
  • React, Angular, or Vue
  • RESTful APIs
  • Microservices
  • Service-oriented architecture
  • Backend orchestration
  • Enterprise integration patterns
  • Microsoft Azure or comparable cloud platforms
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Docker/containerization
  • Automated testing frameworks
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Sybase
  • ORM/data-access frameworks
  • Secure data-access patterns
  • RBAC
  • Authentication
  • Audit logging
  • Secure coding practices
  • FedRAMP-aligned development practices
• C#/.NET Blazor should receive particular attention during recruiting.

Preferred Background

• Experience with USDA or USDA NASS
• Federal application modernization
• SAS/AF or SAS environments
• Statistical/sampling applications
• Legacy application modernization
• Azure
• Highly regulated data environments
• Section 508/WCAG accessibility
• Federal security requirements
• Large enterprise database applications

Security & Eligibility

• Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents.
• Must satisfy USDA fingerprinting, background investigation, PIV, confidentiality, and security-training requirements.
• The information is unclassified but includes highly sensitive PII.