Software Consultant

General Background of Project or Assignment:

Within the scope of Activity 1.2.4 of the Reinforce Effectiveness of National Asylum Procedures in Compliance with International Standards and National Legislation (RNF II) Project, funded by the European Union, the implementing agency of which is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the beneficiary of which is the Presidency of Migration Management (PMM), the technical infrastructure of the KURE platform will be revised and updated in order to increase the capacity of the Presidency of Migration Management and PDMMs to access relevant and up-to-date country of origin information. To that end, within the framework of the project, a technical/software consultant (back-end) software developer will be recruited, to be employed full-time at the Presidency of Migration Management for a maximum of six months.

Occupational Safety and Health Considerations

Responsibilities 

Technical/software consultant (back-end) will have the following responsibilities: 

• Developing a backend software for the portal.
• Coordinating the general management and implementation of backend software developments for the portal.
• Forwarding relevant reports to the Team Leader
• Delivering all activity outputs regarding the portal’s backend software development as required and in a timely manner.
• Conducting needs assessment, design, implementation, testing, and training in terms of backend software development for the portal.

Within the scope of the development and improvement of the KURE platform, a technical/software consultant (back-end) who will work in the Information Technologies Department of the Presidency of Migration Management must meet the following criteria:

• University degree from relevant departments of universities (Computer engineering, Software engineering, Computer Programming, etc.)
• Proficiency in working in English and Turkish
• At least 3 years of experience in the development, support, maintenance, and backend software development of websites
• Experience in developing backend software in at least 2 projects (to be able to present previous work as a reference)
• Experience in developing an application integrated with at least one of MSSQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience in developing applications with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET CORE MVC, C#, .NET, ADO.NET, IIS 8.0 and above technologies.
• Knowledge and experience in web technologies such as JQuery, Bootstrap, AJAX, CSS, XML, Javascript, HTML, HTML5,
• Knowledge and experience in web services, SOAP, RESTful, WCF, Web API, and Windows Services.
• Knowledge and experience in ORM (Entity Framework, vs.) and ADO.NET.
• Knowledge and experience in writing Stored Procedures, Functions, and Triggers in databases.
• Experience in at least one of the versioning systems (Team Foundation Server-TFS, Azure DevOps, Git, Subversion-SVN, etc.).
• Experience in software paradigms such as Design Pattern, Clean Code, and SOLID.
• Experience in institutional web-based application development. Having a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD): Web Applications certificate.
• Knowledge of unit testing.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of distributed cache architectures (Redis, MEMCACHED, etc.).
• Knowledge and experience in ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and full-text Search.
• Knowledge and experience in microservices.
• Experience in mobile application software development.
• Knowledge and experience in OCR, image processing libraries, and their integrations.
• Prior experience in IT projects for public institutions