Applications Development Analyst (A. Entry) – Lead Developer, Florida Shorebird Database
Abacus Service Corporation· enterprise· Sep 28, 2026 · 1mo ago
Tallahassee, FL
In office
Full-time
Lead/Staff
$142K–$211K est.
Job description
Job Title
Applications Development Analyst (A. Entry) – Lead Developer, Florida Shorebird Database
Client Company/Dept. Name
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) – Fish & Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), Florida Shorebird Program
Address
1875 E Orange Ave
City
Tallahassee
State Name
FL-Florida
Zip Code
32301
Duration of the project
Project Start Date
1/15/2027
Project End Date
1/14/2028
Due date for Resume submission (RFQ due 5:00 PM ET)
10/2/2026
No. of Openings
1
No. of Maximum Submissions
2
Job Description
The selected candidates will be expected to perform the following tasks:
1. Provide full stack .NET application development and support, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and Support program applications.
2. Support modernization and migration of legacy application to current .NET and FWC standards.
3. Design, develop and maintain ASP.NET Core RESTful Web APIs and application integrations, including business logic, validation, error handling, and secure data access.
4. Develop and maintain responsive accessible user interface using Blazor WebAssembly, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript interoperability in accordance with FWC accessibility standards.
5. Development experience with the Blazor Component libraries.
6. Writing and organizing modular JavaScript (ES modules) intended to be called from the .NET for Map services.
7. Provide GIS application development and integration using ArcGIS technologies and mapping services.
8. Experience in Building interactive web maps with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript is strongly preferred.
9. Knowledge of Layer Management in ESRI: base maps, feature layers and dynamic layer updates.
10. User-driven geometry captures like drawing, editing and validating points, lines, polygons.
11. Working with geospatial data formats including generation exports that can be used by desktop tools.
12. Role-based authorization enforced consistently on both the API level and the UI level.
13. Proficiency in Entity Framework, Dapper, and ADO.NET against SQL Server, with the judgment to select the appropriate approach per operation.
14. Provide Microsoft SQL database application support inclusive of data design/modeling, coding, implementing, maintaining, and supporting FWC applications.
15. Provide SQL programming inclusive of stored procedures, functions, and views and performance optimization for existing complex queries.
16. Experience with SQL Server spatial data types.
17. Provide configuration management (using DevOps/GitHub) for software application objects.
18. Provide Azure application development and support (App Services, Azure Functions, Web Apps, APIs).
19. Provide storage services management (Blob, File, Queue, Table Storage).
20. Work with Azure DevOps pipelines for CI/CD automation and release management.
21. Independently manage code changes and promote them through all environments.
22. Provide analytical services on systems to implement user-defined requirements.
23. Develop and maintain technical documentation (architecture, design specs, data dictionaries, user guides)
24. Analyze the existing functionality and find ways to make it better and more efficiently.
25. Perform testing on system changes to meet user-defined requirements.
26. Work with Florida Shorebird Database staff to test the application and confirm it meets the requirements.
27. Updates on status of development.
28. Produce accounting of hours worked by tasks.
29. Follow FWC IT processes and coordinate with other FWC IT staff to ensure compliance with FWC standards.
30. Collaborate with Shorebird Program staff, GIS personnel, database admins, technical teams, as needed, to gather requirements, evaluate solutions, demonstrate functionality, conduct user acceptance testing, and incorporate feedback.
31. Complies with and enforces all agency policies, procedures, and security policies.
32. This is a hybrid position (home and office) and must be available for on-site work at the FWC Office in Tallahassee, Florida.
Skill set info
[MANDATORY] Specific Application Experience
Experience working with FWC as an application development analyst on the Florida Shorebird Database.
.NET-related
• 5+ years' experience .NET programming inclusive of C#, ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core.
• 5+ years' experience working on enterprise-level software applications.
• Experience in implementing SQL Server Data Access Using Entity Framework Core, Dapper, ADO.NET.
• Modernizing legacy ASP.NET Web Forms Experience to current .NET technologies.
• Experience implementing authentication and role-based authorization using ASP.NET Core Identity and JWT bearer tokens.
• 5+ years of designing and developing ASP.NET core RESTful Web API's.
• 5+ years of providing analytical services on systems to implement user-defined requirements.
• 5+ years of providing analytical services on systems to identify operational efficiencies.
• 5+ years of collecting system requirements with business program staff.
• 5+ years of producing work estimates to implement user-defined requirements.
• 5+ years of testing system changes to meet user-defined requirements.
• 5+ years of facilitating user acceptance testing (UAT) with business program staff.
• 5+ years of configuration management (using Azure DevOps and GitHub) for software application objects.
MS SQL-related
• 5+ years' experience with MS SQL products inclusive of MS SQL 2019 and newer, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• 5+ years' experience of MS SQL database application support inclusive of data design/modeling, coding, implementing, maintaining, and supporting these applications.
• 5+ years' experience with SQL programming inclusive of stored procedures, functions, and views
Mapping Experience
• Experience developing GIS-enabled web applications using Esri ArcGIS technologies and mapping services.
• Experience building interactive web maps using the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript.
• Experience managing basemaps, feature layers, dynamic layer updates, map symbols, labels, pop-ups, and clustering.
• Experience implementing geometry capture workflows for drawing, editing, and validating points, lines, and polygons.
• Experience working with geospatial data formats, ArcGIS REST services, and SQL Server spatial data types.
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Enterprise platform-related
• 5+ years' experience in change management best practices, serving in a code promotion role in partnership with development team.
Education
[MANDATORY] Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.Substitution allowed: additional relevant experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis, and additional relevant education may substitute for experience on a year-for-year basis.
Certifications (if required)
No certifications are listed as mandatory or preferred.
Documentation Required for submission
Three Candidate References
Work Hours
Not specified in SOW. Up to 1,980 hours over 12 months.
Account Manager Name (Proposal Team)
Work authorization required
USC/GC/EAD/H1 also
Relocation is accepted
No
[MANDATORY] Candidate must already be local to Tallahassee, FL
Remote work
No
Hybrid (home + office). Must be available for on-site work at FWC Office, Tallahassee, FL. No hybrid schedule given
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