Senior Software Engineer

Contract

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Result of Service

DGACM gProject systems are fully supported, enhanced, updated, developed, maintained to ensure business strategic and ongoing operational needs and requirements.

Work Location

Vienna or Remote

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

With over 1,000 staff at United Nations Headquarters in New York and almost 2,000 worldwide, including conference management staff at the United Nations Offices at Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi, the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM) is the largest in the United Nations Secretariat. The workforce includes committee secretaries and research staff, meeting planners and protocol officers, translators, revisers and verbatim reporters, interpreters and editors, proofreaders, graphic designers and printers, conference officers and administration staff spanned across four duty stations. DGACM is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work in the development of its conference management system. Within delegated authority, the Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for the following duties:

• Participate in the development, programming, testing, debugging and implementation of new application systems releases, modules and functionalities, for the meetings management. • Develop, test, debug, and implement simple computer application systems and programs using established standards for IT technologies, programming languages and tools, namely: . Net, .Net Core, C#, TypeScript Visual Studio, Scrum, Agile, Azure DevOps, Azure Cloud. • Develop, test, debug, implement and maintain applications using UN standard web based and client server development frameworks and technologies Asp.Net, Asp.Net Core, ASP.NET Core Blazor, Vue.js, MVC, MS SQL Server; • Develop applications optimized code within .NET framework using Code First technology to carry out database transactions efficiently, data processing logic using stored procedures and triggers; • Serves as team member in the planning, specification, design, development, implementation and support of computer application systems; independently liaises with users to define and specify requirements. • Monitor computer applications systems using appropriate monitoring tools and produces monitoring reports. • Prepare technical documentation for deployed computer application systems and conducts technical presentations. • Maintain functional specifications for computer application systems, programs and procedures developed and/or modified. • Provide support for deployed computer application systems including version management, data recovery and deployment; • Provide guidance to new/junior staff. • Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications/special skills

Academic Qualifications: A First-level degree (Bachelor's or equivalent). Experience: A minimum of 7 years of experience in information systems analysis, programming, or software development is required. 5 years of experience in designing and developing applications using ASP .NET, .Net Core and C# is required; 5 years of experience with MS SQL Server and Object Relational Mapping (ORM) is required; 3 years of experience in Vue.js or React or Angular or Blazor is required; 3 years of experience deploying applications to Azure Web Apps and utilizing Azure Cloud PaaS features (such as Azure Search, Azure Service Bus, etc.) in a multi-layered application environment is required. 2 years of experience with .Net Core framework is required; A minimum of one year of experience in tools managing CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps pipelines or similar is required. Experience in HangFire is required; Experience in Typescript is desirable;

Languages

Language: English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.