wanted: Senior Architect and Developer, New York, NY, Contract

Senior Architect and Developer, New York, NY, Contract

Code, evaluate, install, implement and debug web applications built with ASP.NET 4. Code, evaluate, install, implement and debug web applications created from the Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft MVC 3 Framework and jQuery. As a jQuery programmer, you will also need to be able to: (i) create HTML/CSS code from PSDs, (ii) create drag-and-drop interfaces, (iii) create graphs, and (iv) create interactive-grids. The candidate is expected to have specific experience on other projects in which the candidate implemented user services, consumed and manipulated data from SQL Server 2008 instances, as well as deployed, configured, and secured web applications via IIS.

Duties Include:

• Consuming and manipulating data: access and manipulate data from SQL Server 2008 by creating and using ad hoc queries and stored procedures
• Access and manipulate data from stores via the Microsoft Entity Framework
• Testing and debugging: create unit test plans; implemen t tracing; and debug, rework, and resolve defects in code
• Deploying web applications: plan the deployment of web applications via IIS; create set-up programs that install web applications and allow them to be uninstalled; deploy web applications; and add assemblies to the global assembly cache
• Supporting web applications: optimize the performance of web applications; diagnose and resolve errors and issues
• Configuring and securing web applications: configure web applications; configure security for web applications with IIS; configure authorization and authentication within code behind; configure and implement caching; configure and implement session state; and install and configure server services

Mandatory Skills:

• Previous experience creating and deploying new or revised, but very large/complex (more than 20 pages) .NET web sites, .NET web application programming, sound experience programming with Visual Studio 2010 IDE to create MVC 3 (Razor view engine), and ASP.NET web-applications patterned after the MVVM architecture with Visual Basic or C#
• Previous multi-project experience writing SQL Server 2008 stored procedures, basic knowledge of Microsoft Entity Framework, basic knowledge of LINQ-SQL

Desired Skills:

• Moderate HTML skills (either HTML 4 or HTML 5)
• Exposure to Telerik MVC controls and NHibernate
• Moderate JavaScript skills
• Moderate CSS skills (either CSS 2 or CSS3) including transfer of the project from a development computer to a 'production server' using IIS7
• Exposure to TFS as source control and a task manager