Complete Description:
The selected candidate will serve as a Programmer/Developer for PennDOT’s iOS Enterprise Mobile Development team. The candidate is expected to understand business and technical requirements, and implement iOS solutions based on those requirements. The solutions will entail developing and maintaining iOS applications in Objective-C/XCode using Apple’s iOS 6.x and iOS 7.x SDKs. The incumbent should be quick at learning newer versions of the SDK, as they are made available by Apple. Specific tasks:
1.iOS Development: Complete SDLC related to iOS development. Comprehensive understanding and experience designing, developing and testing for the Apple iOS platform is mandatory. Expert level knowledge is required of using iOS frameworks related to UI, Core Data, Storyboards, Web Services, Security/Keychain, Quartz, Camera integration, MapKit, EventKit, Asynchronous/Background processing, Multitasking, Queues etc.
2.Design Patterns & Cocoa layers: Developer must have good knowledge design patterns (like MVC, delegation, target-action) and Cocoa layers related to Touch, Media, OS and Services and Objective/C and iOS principles of memory management, notifications, blocks, categories etc.
3.iOS Frameworks: The developer is expected to learn and use PennDOT’s iOS frameworks and also be knowledgeable in using other 3rd party iOS frameworks. The developer is expected to develop iOS frameworks over the course of development for functionality that can be reused by other mobile teams and projects within PennDOT.
4.Integration: The solutions developed will interface with enterprise web services including, and not limited to, security services, business services, reporting services and other enterprise services. A comprehensive knowledge of web services using JSON/REST and SOAP/XML is required. It’s desirable to know server side Java, spring framework and mybatis persistence.
5.Learning & Mentoring: The incumbent will have the ability to articulate their learning, present to technical teams and be willing to learn from other iOS developers in addition to contributing to team learning.
6.Agile Development using Sprints: All projects follow an agile sprint methodology, and the incumbent should be comfortable with daily standups, sprint grooming and planning activities, integration testing, and UAT. The developer will own their sprint stories and have complete responsibility to deliver outcomes in a timely manner.
7.Working independently and in a team environment: The developer will have inter-personal, communication and presentation skills to work as part of an interactive and highly technical team. Developer should be able to work independently as required.
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Full iOS SDLC experience as a developer
Required
2
Years
Experience with OOA, OOD, OOP
Required
2
Years
Experience with iOS SDK and Objective-C
Required
2
Years
Experience with Core Data, Storyboards and UIKit
Required
2
Years
Experience with 3rd party iOS frameworks and framework development
Required
2
Years
Experience working with Cocoa Services, Media, Touch and OS layers
Required
2
Years
Experience mentoring teams
Required
2
Years
Experience working in agile sprint projects
Required
2
Years
Experience working in enterprise integration projects
Required
2
Years
The selected candidate will be required to provide 3 manager/supervisor references from previous, recent, positions.
The client will most likely ask to see screen shots from apps that candidates have worked on which have been released in enterprise environments.