Senior.Net developer

Job Title: Senior .Net Senior Developer

Type: Contract; 6 months. This role is also available on a Permanent, Full time basis.

Location: Oakville, ON
Reports to: Senior Director
Start Date: Immediate


Overview:

Our client is seeking a highly skilled, motivated and dynamic individual to join their Development team. This role includes an active role in software development at a senior level, with the additional occasional supervision of a small team of developers. The successful candidate will work with an experienced entrepreneurial team and be given extensive responsibility in a fast paced, agile development environment, working with product specialists, software architects, mechanical and electrical engineers, and quality assurance analysts to help get a high technology product line scaled to enterprise-level. This is an exciting opportunity to work in an entrepreneurial, results-driven environment!

Platform:

-Much of the existing development environment is Microsoft-oriented (.NET 3.5/4.0, C#, MSMQ, SQL Server, WCF), but includes a rapidly-increasing mix of other technologies (Linux, Java EE, Glassfish, Android) as the organizations network is extended into other medical devices and platform offerings. The role will work with a product in a fast track to market, including mechanical handling, sensors, machine vision, VOIP, web portals, user interactions, inventory systems, and database reporting. Software must be designed and implemented to operate in a highly distributed, dependable, and secure networked environment.

-This position has a focus on the applications and middleware services that provide network functionality including stocking, inventory control, call centers, video infrastructure, workflow and other edge devices. That said, expertise in multiple areas, especially including build, continuous integration, and Scrum / Agile project management are especially welcome!

Duties & Responsibilities:

-Work with a team of software developers including architectural direction, mentoring, task assignment and coordination

-Participating in the preparation of project plans and tracking to that plan using Scrum

-Analysis, application architecture, design, development, and unit-testing of software to prescribed technical and business requirements

-Debugging and second-tier production support (first-line support may be required in low-scale scenarios)

-Design and support documentation

-Research and prototyping

-Vendor product evaluation

Requirements:

-University Degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited educational institution

-Minimum 5 years of relevant and recent hands on work experience

-Minimum of 2 years of experience leading a team of professional software engineers

-Eligibility to work in Canada

-Exposure to enterprise-level software development, including security and scalability aspects

-Solid understanding of Web Services, WS-I standards, and SOA architectural patterns

-Experience with .NET 3.5/4.0, C#, WCF

-Experience with Java EE and Linux I (nice to have but not mandatory)

-Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL

-Effective English language verbal and written communications, with an ability to effectively convey information, concepts and ideas to others

-Ability to work effectively inside a multi-disciplinary team environment

-Ability to prioritize and manage multiple work activities, to completion, while meeting or exceeding deadlines

-Ability to effectively navigate dynamic requirements and priorities

-Strong organization skills, dependability, pro-active, self-motivated, and goal-oriented with attention to detail

-Eligibility for security clearance (police employment check)

Assets (nice to have but not mandatory):

-Experience with Enterprise Service Bus architecture (Glassfish) and messaging (MSMQ, JMS) or equivalent

-Experience with Team Foundation Server, Kiln (Mercurial), and FogBugz

-Familiarity with Unified Communications and video conferencing including protocols such as SIP

-Familiarity with the pharmaceutical and health industries including policy and regulatory requirements