FMS Career Opportunities

Thank you for your interest in joining our team. FMS, Inc. is an award winning Microsoft Partner located in Tysons Corner, Virginia near Washington, DC. Established in 1986, we are a leading creator of Microsoft developer tools, and offer custom application development services to a wide range of clients across the region, country, and internationally. We were recognized as an SD Times 100 firm (the world's 100 top most innovative software firms) and have 50,000+ customers in over 100 countries.

Establishing a Stable Career

Conservatively run and financially solid, we've experienced and survived multiple technology cycles for several decades. We foster an intimate environment where you can grow professionally and personally. Create great IT solutions that impact our clients' missions while supporting a lifestyle that's sustainable long-term. Our management team are all technical experts and understand the challenges software developers face.

Professional Work Environment

At FMS, we provide a development environment that fosters quality software development. We know what is necessary to foster concentration, creativity and collaboration.

This job is at our headquarters in Tysons Corner, VA, across the street from the Tysons Corner Mall. We have free covered parking and are a 10 minute walk from the Tysons Corner metro stop on the Silver Line.

Experienced Microsoft Access Developer

We are seeking ONE full-time Microsoft Access Developer to assist with our client services and product development. This is a full-time, mid-level opportunity for the right individuals to work with our team of world renowned software developers.

What the Job Is

• Taking over existing Access databases and assessing them for improvements
• Writing and maintaining VBA module code
• Creating real world Access applications using tables, queries, forms, and reports
• Assisting our senior developers with Microsoft Access application development
• Working with clients and users to determine needs, design solutions, and accurately determine the level of effort required

Required Skills

• Experience developing Microsoft Access applications for other people
• Experience creating requirement documents and estimating the level of effort to complete tasks
• Understanding and applying Microsoft Access best practices
• Strong debugging and problem solving skills
• Data analysis with writing queries, detecting bad data, cleaning up data, restructuring and normalizing databases, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Professional Interests

• Strong interest and desire to solve database challenges with Microsoft Access
• Database design and optimization
• VBA programming
• Self-motivated quick learner, interested in a significant role supporting our clients and products

Additional Desirable Skills

• Development of Microsoft Access databases for multiuser environments and maintaining them over time
• Upsizing Access applications to SQL Server
• Creating SQL Server databases, views, stored procedures, performance optimization, etc.
• Experience taking over other people's work
• Experience using FMS developer tools for Microsoft Access
• Excel development skills
• Visual Studio .NET development using VB.NET or C#
• Microsoft professional certifications

What the Job Isn't

• Off-site development.
• This is not staff augmentation. This is a professional software developer position in our headquarters with our development team. There may be occasional meetings at client sites for design, deployment and training.

Experienced Microsoft Visual Studio .NET C# Web Developer

We are seeking ONE full-time Visual Studio .NET C# Developer to work from our headquarters in Tysons Corner. This is an opportunity to collaborate directly with our senior personnel.

What the Job Is

• Work with our development team and users to create innovative web-based applications (commercial and government clients)
• Contribute to architectural designs with other senior and lead developers.
• Collaborate with teams, peers and others to ensure understanding of shared responsibility and deliverables to meet the schedule and business objectives.
• Serve as a technical resource for others on their team or to partners within other business units.
• Coordinate external and internal development efforts including code reviews, code merge and overall build management.

Required Skills

• Established track record of building intuitive, web sites for the general public and/or internal B2B solutions
• Experience creating responsive solutions using Bootstrap or equivalent technology
• Proven web development skills using C#, MVC, JavaScript, CSS and related technologies
• Experience working in a team environment using source control systems such as TFS, GitHub, SVN, or equivalent
• Experience creating requirement documents and estimating the level of effort to complete tasks
• Strong debugging and problem solving skills
• Strong communications skills to ask and understand what users and team members need. Experience in a consulting environment a plus.
• A commitment to continuous learning and delivering quality results is a must. You need to really care about getting things right so that it works today and can be supported over time in a team environment.

Additional Desirable Skills

• Experience developing applications with Microsoft SQL Server, writing stored procedures, database design, optimization and administration
• Experience deploying applications to Microsoft Azure
• Experience with security and multi-factor authentication
• Experience working directly with clients
• Agile software development methodology
• Microsoft professional certifications

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or related experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Design and implementation of systems with high availability, reliability, and overall performance.

What the Job Isn't

• Off-site development.
• This is not staff augmentation. This is a professional software developer position in our headquarters with our development team. There may be occasional meetings at client sites for design, deployment and training.