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The Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) is the agency responsible for managing the water, wastewater and storm water infrastructure for the City of Philadelphia.

The primary responsibility of this position is application development for the Philadelphia Water, City of Philadelphia using Microsoft .Net framework. This includes designing, developing and maintaining mobile, web and desktop applications to support PWD business processes.

Essential Functions
• Responsible for the development of applications (web and otherwise) in .NET to support PWD Business processes.
• Responsible for the design of relational databases including organizing the information in tables, setting up primary keys and foreign keys and table relationships, create views, functions and stored procedures.
• Develop Mobile GIS enabled web applications using newer technologies such as MVC, Bootstrap, Angular JS and ESRI framework.
Position Description
Revised 7/20/2016
• Develop and maintain interfaces to COTS solutions such as Maximo, Cityworks and CIPIT.
• Work closely with clients to develop technical requirements to meet their business needs as well as with system support staff to identify technical requirements, including connectivity, resources and other platform requirements.
• Help coordinate the implementation of short- and long-term projects, objectives, policies and procedures for the production and maintenance of all application development related issues.
• Follow SDLC methodology including requirements gathering, solution architecture, coding, and testing.
• Follow best practices and industry standards to develop .NET applications.
• Review code and high-level designs by other team members to ensure that strategic objectives and business needs are met.
• Proactively identify application inefficiencies and propose solutions.
• Identify, create, and maintain development frameworks and code libraries. Create prototypes and functional specifications for application development projects.
• Other duties as assigned.
Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to:
• Apply web application development standards and best practices
• Understand application architecture
• Work under tight deadlines and reliably deliver work of the highest standards on time
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form and communicate them visually.
Knowledge of:
• Web standards, design fundamentals, browser compatibility issues for all operating systems
• Applications
Visual Studio (2008 ,2010,2012 and 2015)
Microsoft SQL Server (2008,2014)
Oracle
• Languages
JQuery
Bootstrap
Angular JS
MVC
VB.NET
C#
HTML/XHTML
XML
AJAX
Position Description
Revised 7/20/2016
JavaScript
CSS3
VBScript
• Concepts
Application Architecture
Application Lifecycle Management
Agile Methodologies
RESTful Web Services
Information Architecture
Web standards
Table-less Design
Web Accessibility
Object Oriented Programming
Active Directory Authentication/Authorization

Education
Completion of a Bachelor’s degree program at an accredited college or university, which has
included major course work in Computer Science, information science, systems analysis or
engineering
Experience
• 5+ years of experience developing excellent solutions using Microsoft technologies
• Strong experience with CSS2 and CSS3
• Strong experience with JQuery, MVC, Angular JS
• Experience developing web services
• Experience with the Microsoft .Net framework
• Experience with enterprise relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and or Oracle
• Knowledge of GIT is preferred

Please submit cover along with resume. 

Successful candidate must be a City resident within six months of hire. 

The City of Philadelphia is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not permit discrimination based on race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age,disability, marital status, source of income, familial status, genetic information or domestic or sexual violence victim status. If you believe you were discriminated against, call the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations at 215-686-4670 or send an email to For more information, go to: Human Relations Website at: http://www.phila.gov/humanrelations