Application Developer

Position:  Application Developer

Location:  On-site at U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) offices, in Falls Church, Virginia, Ft. Collins, Colorado, or, as approved, Madison, Wisconsin

Clearance:  Clearable (Public Trust), US Citizen

Objective:

The primary objective of this engagement is to ensure the continued enhancement, as well as maintenance and operational support of ECOSphere, which includes its seamless integration with other systems/applications, by leveraging the expertise of highly qualified technical professionals. The focus is to ensure ECOSphere remains a secure, scalable, and efficient system that serves both internal USFWS users and the public.

Tasks:

Application Development Support and Maintenance

• Develop and Enhance Applications: Design, develop, and implement new features, modules, and tools and/or integrations with in-house applications (ETK workflows, including species and recovery workflows and more, IPaC, Dkey Editor, EPM, SAMS, HabITS, etc.).
• Carry out application technology upgrades for frameworks like Angular, Spring Boot, Grails, React etc. as needed to keep up with security fixes.
• Support existing and develop new FME processes, ISDI, APIs, etc., to ensure data is seamlessly delivered to ECOSphere applications from EDW and other sources.
• Implement new functionalities and enhancements using Agile methodologies.
  • Review and complete items in the backlogs.
  • Keep, maintain, and address priorities conforming to Executive Orders, Secretarial Orders, along with service goals and mission support, including tracking and reporting capabilities.
  • Enhancements to current modules to include end of year reporting.
• Maintain and create automated tests (unit, integration). Document any manual test plans and test runs.
• Create database datasets to pull out key application data that will support reporting in SSRS and QuickSight
• Application Support and Maintenance: Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 support services, including troubleshooting, bug fixes, configuration updates, and performance optimization
• User Experience Improvements: Gather feedback from end-users to inform design updates and usability enhancements.
• User Surveys to understand the user experience and be able to quantify satisfaction and the value and time savings of improvements.
• Develop an AI tool to enhance the user experience, populate workflows with important data, and generate products.