Submission Due Date: 03/06/2025

Client  - State of PA

Hybrid

The Pennsylvania Transit Database (PennTD) is a greenfield web application being built for PennDOT’s Bureau of Public Transit to replace and enhance a legacy system using the latest .NET and Angular technologies for deployment to the Azure cloud. 

The Pennsylvania Transit Database (PennTD) is a greenfield web application being built for PennDOT’s Bureau of Public Transit to replace and enhance a legacy system using the latest .NET and Angular technologies for deployment to the Azure cloud. The application will allow easier communication between PennDOT, the Federal Department of Transit, and public transit agencies within Pennsylvania while enhancing lines of business and looking forward to future changes and systems enhancements. Prospective initial deployment of the application is March 2025 with additional deployments scheduled quarterly.

Candidates will work under the direction of the project’s Technical Lead and Application Architect to write, test, and document code to implement system features and enhancements.

Skills:

Required: 8+ Years

·         .NET Core and C#, for building backend services and applications

·         ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET Core for building web applications

·         SQL Server / T-SQL, recent experience with Azure SQL.

·         APIs and Integration, RESTful APIs, microservices and event-driven architecture

·         Testing frameworks

·         XUnit/NUnit

·         Prefer: Jasmine and Karma

ORM, such as Entity framework and Dapper

Containerization

·         Prefer: Docker

Cloud services with implementation in .NET

·         Azure Function

·         Azure Queue

·         Azure Storage

·         Azure container registry

·         Key Vault

Front-End

·         HTML, CSS, JavaScript

§  Prefer: prior experience with jQuery and Bootstrap

·         Angular with recent experience with Angular 14 or greater

Tools

·         Visual Studio with recent experience in VS2022 and VS Code

·         Azure DevOps /Git

Required: Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge of responsiveness and mobile-first development
• Knowledge of Design Patterns and Solid principles
• Knowledge of digital accessibility and disability inclusion
• Knowledge of regulations related to digital accessibility (e.g., Section 508, ADA)
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA requirements
• Experience designing for platform technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, iOS, Android)
• Experience applying WAI-ARIA authoring guidelines and best practices.
• Experience optimizing for the accessibility features of the platform (HTML, iOS, Android)
• Experience developing digital products that comply with accessibility standards.

Preferred: Applicants with the following qualifications will be preferred:

• Experience incorporating accessibility tests into the development process.
• Experience building digital products where compliance with accessibility standards is part of “definition of done”

Work details:

• Work hours are Monday – Friday excluding state holidays with flexible schedules covering 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM with an hour for lunch for a maximum of 8 hours/day and 40 hours/week. The contract assumes an additional 80 hours of unpaid leave in addition to the above per state fiscal year.
• Work location is majority remote; however, selected candidates will be required to report IN PERSON for an interview at PennDOT’s offices at 400 North Street, 5th floor, Harrisburg PA. Engaged candidates will also need to report IN PERSON to pick up equipment as part of onboarding and may be required to report for occasional in-person meetings or training.
• Selected candidates must provide a completed PATCH check and work authorization done at vendor expense prior to engagement.
• On-site work location is a secured floor.

The agency does not provide parking.