Application Development Services

Job Description

Application Development Services

The purpose of this category is to provide complete development and support of the varied and numerous applications that are created, maintained, and owned by the State.

Brief Description of Services: Services may include computer programming, on premise; documenting; testing; writing and maintaining the source code, regardless of infrastructure; all processes between the conception and final manifestation of the software in a planned and structured manner; and/or bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks using a standard software development life cycle. Development may include research, new development, prototyping, modification, re-use, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products. Services may include the necessary knowledge of commercial off-the shelf software (COTS) platforms, web/mobile application design, content development, client-side/server-side scripting, or web server, development. Design, develop, and implement information systems that include designing or building a customized architecture and/or application, integrating it with new or existing hardware, custom software, and/or communications infrastructure.

Expected typical skills in, knowledge about, and experience with may include:

A mainframe environment – COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, DB2, C/C++, IBM OS 390, and IBM AS400;

N-tier platform programming services – .NET, C# or Java and related technologies including VB.NET, XML, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, Eclipse, ASP, .NET framework, web services/WCF, and mobile application development;

Client/Server (including three tiered architectural environments). – Java, J2EE C/C++, Cold Fusion/Adobe Suite of products, PowerBuilder, Micro Focus Cobol, Visual Basic, Perl, C# and .NET, CSS, and Oracle DBMS;

Structured Query Languages/Stored Procedures, indexes, triggers, and functions

The various stages of SDLC such as design, development testing, and deployment of applications;

Software testing to include planning, constructing, and executing automated tests, product tests, system tests, unit tests, load tests, volume tests, network tests as well as integration with release control process;

COTS implementations;

Design and creation of web and mobile applications, including user experience improvements;

System domains, object/data models, wire frames, prototypes, flowcharts and use cases;

Experience with common environments and frameworks such as (but not limited to): ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC Frameworks, ColdFusion, CGI Java, PHP, Apache, FileMaker, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or Sybase, Web2.0, WebSphere, Java / J2EE/JEE, PERL / CGI, PHP, XML / HTML / DHTML, SOAP, Jasper, content management systems;

Enterprise application systems integration and implementation including both COTS and custom applications;

Designing, programming, converting, installing, system training, managing and maintaining applications and application interfaces/systems, testing (all levels), implementation and cutover planning, and data conversion/migration for the implementation of the systems;

Implementation of infrastructure solutions capable of cost-effectively supporting business goals; or

Designing and building enterprise-level data integration and data transformations solutions.

Any cloud technologies that are specific to a cloud vendor or any technologies that are listed above that can be leveraged in the cloud platform.

Any rapid application development tools.