Developer

Job Title: Developer

Location: 390 Robert Street North Saint Paul MN (Hybrid 2 days a week)

Duration: 12 months contract

The work is expected to be completed with a hybrid of on-site and remote work. The resource will be required to work at a Met Council office at least two days per week. Council offices are located at 390 Robert Street North Saint Paul MN.

Description of Project

The Metropolitan Council (Met Council) is seeking one full-time Developer resource to work on applications and services. The Developer will be responsible for architecting designing and delivering enterprise-grade applications using the framework and Azure services. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with architectural decision-making to ensure scalable secure and high-performance solutions.

At a high level the resource will design develop and deploy applications and services. For additional details on the request such as qualifications tasks and evaluation criteria see the attachments found in the Buyer Attachment section of the Event.

Tasks:

• Lead architect prototype design develop and deploy and cloud-based applications.
• Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship to development teams ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Collaborate closely with solution architects product owners business analysts and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Implement applications leveraging Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design principles.
• applications with third-party APIs databases and Azure cloud services.
• Optimize application performance scalability and maintainability across multiple environments.
• Lead code reviews enforce development standards and drive continuous quality improvements.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient deployment and release management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in production and development environments.
• Ensure compliance with security data privacy and accessibility standards.
• Contribute to long-term technical planning architecture decisions and technology selection.
• Prepare technical documentation and lead knowledge transfer sessions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Fifteen (15) years of total software development experience.
• Five (5) years of experience in application development using framework and Microsoft technologies.
• Combined five (5) years of experience in a Technical Team Engineer role designing and developing using Microsoft technologies and mentoring junior developers.
• Combined seven (7) years of experience with one or more of the following frameworks: Angular React or Blazor.
• Combined five (5) years of experience writing applications in Azure cloud and deploying code using CI/CD pipelines.

Desired Skills:

• B.S. B.A. or an Associate Degree in Information Technology or a related field.
• Five (5) years of experience leading collaborative exercises with business and technical stakeholders to translate functional requirements into technical designs.
• Eight (8) years of experience with the following front-end technologies: HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Three (3) years of experience in Azure services such as Azure Functions App Services Event Bus Event Grid Logic Apps and Azure infrastructure and identity service including Azure (CIAM) cloud-based identity service.
• Five (5) years of experience with hands-on work in API design microservices architecture distributed systems and Azure Application Performance Monitoring.
• Ten (10) years of experience writing automated unit tests.
• Five (5) years of experience with database design and development using SQL Server or Azure SQL.
• Experience working on a mixed business and technical team in a hybrid telework/office setting work environment.
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server Entity Framework and performance analysis tools.
• Excellent leadership communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to lead and manage multiple workstreams in large-scale enterprise projects.