CTAC is a small business providing management and organizational support, technical services, and innovative solutions including BPR, policy/planning, analysis and integration; program/project management solutions; security, software development and training.

CTAC’s niche with the government CIO client community has been in its RAD and delivery of custom-built reporting tools including migration of small databases and custom-built applications for Information Collections, Financial Statements, Audit Resolutions, Case Management, Capital Planning, Sharing Neutrals, etc. including an award winning system built using Ruby-on-Rails for an Oracle database and utilizing XML/Web Services for multiple agencies. CTAC’s developers currently support six ongoing Rails projects, among others, and enjoy a casual, flexible close-knit working environment fostering technological creativity and successful solutions innovation.

For more information, or to submit your resume, please reference the Position Title below, and email to careers@ctacorp.com

CURRENT OPEN POSITIONS (Nov. 2008)

Web/Database Application Developer

The position will support systems development lifecycle tasks. Web development experience must include application design with MVC frameworks such as Struts or Ruby on Rails. Work history must include Web front end design and object oriented business logic programming. Applicants should have a solid background in Java or Ruby on Rails programming. Database tasks will include data normalization, database design, migration, and maintenance tasks. Applicants must have significant experience with RDBMS database design, programming, and SQL querying. Java programmers must have experience with JDBC. Oracle experience is preferred.

Tasks will be performed at client sites in the Washington, DC metropolitan and offsite at the Northern VA CTAC corporate office. Interested candidates must have experience interacting with users to prototype application design, user interfaces, and SQL-based reports for a multi-tiered system environment. The ability to obtain Security Clearance is REQUIRED.

Developers must have at least 2 years of (non-educational) experience with Java programming (Ruby on Rails experience is preferred). A Bachelor's degree or commensurate experience is preferred.

Analyst/Excel Spreadsheet Designer

This position provides technical expertise, advice and assistance in the development, implementation and design to the Automated Financial Statements (AFS) system, to meet continually changing reporting requirements for department wide audited and unaudited financial statements.

Duties:
• Maintain, update and enhance a highly sophisticated network of spreadsheets that are part of the AFS system
• Routinely convert complex financial spreadsheets from an existing template to the new templates
• Carry forward data from previous reporting periods to the current reporting period
• Provide second level support to the client users
• Prepare documents and notifications for changes