Job Details

Contract Duration: 01/05/2026 - 06/30/2026 (PO funded through 6/30/26; additional funding historically renews 7/1/26-6/30/27)
Work Location: Harrisburg, PA (Dauphin County) - Majority remote, occasional onsite (The Keystone Building, 400 North Street, 5th Floor)
Work Arrangement: Majority remote; must report in-person for interview, onboarding, and as requested for meetings/training
Interview Type: In-person at PennDOT's offices in Harrisburg, PA
Residency Requirements: Candidate must reside within the U.S. and be able to appear onsite in Harrisburg as required
Visas Accepted: GC and USC
Engagement Type: Contract

Work Details:

• Monday - Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm (excluding state holidays)
• 40 hours per week | Lunch: 12:00-1:00pm | 80 hours unpaid leave per state fiscal year
• Majority remote; must report onsite for interviews, onboarding, and occasionally for meetings/training
• Selected candidates must complete a PATCH check and provide work authorization at vendor expense before engagement
• On-site floor is secured - $20 badge fee (check/money order payable to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) required on first day
• Parking not provided

Project Description:
The Find My Ride Schedule (FMRS) system is an application used for scheduling transportation for citizens of need within the Commonwealth. It is being transitioned to PennDOT's Bureau of Public Transit and recoded to replace an external vendor-hosted system built with Ruby on Rails and AWS.
The revised application will be re-platformed to .NET and Angular on Azure hosting services. Phase 1-an "as-is" transition to Azure-is complete. Subsequent phases will migrate the existing functionality to .NET and Angular while incorporating new business requirements.
Candidates will work under the project's Technical Lead and Application Architect to write, test, and document code implementing system features and enhancements.

Required Skills (8+ Years):

• .NET Core and C# for backend services and applications
• ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or ASP.NET Core for building web applications
• PostGres Database / PostGres GIS
• APIs and Integration: RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture
• Testing Frameworks: XUnit / NUnit (Preferred: Jasmine and Karma)
• ORM: Entity Framework, Dapper
• Esri ArcGIS solutions for integrated mapping/location functionality
• Cloud Services with implementation in .NET: Azure Function, Azure Queue, Azure Storage, Azure Container Registry, Key Vault
• Front-End: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Preferred: jQuery, Bootstrap)
• Angular 14 or higher
• Tools: Visual Studio 2022, VS Code, Azure DevOps, Git

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Responsiveness and mobile-first development
• Design Patterns and SOLID principles
• Digital accessibility and disability inclusion
• Regulations: Section 508, ADA
• WCAG 2.1 compliance
• Designing for platform technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, iOS, Android)
• Applying WAI-ARIA authoring guidelines and best practices
• Optimizing accessibility features across platforms (HTML, iOS, Android)
• Developing digital products compliant with accessibility standards

Preferred Qualifications:

• Incorporating accessibility tests into the development process
• Building digital products where accessibility compliance is part of the "definition of done"