Programmer - Senior

Provide a short description of the Position

The position is in support (operational, enhancements, debugging) of the UISIm project, a multi-year program effort to redesign, implement, and test business process improvements for the Department of Labor’s customers, partners and internal staff. UISIm replaces the 40+ year old Unemployment Insurance (UI) legacy computer systems and manual procedures with a new and improved integrated computer system. Additionally, this position will participate in supporting and then sunsetting the UI Employer and Worker Protection applications.

Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate: The consultants will be part of agile development teams and be responsible for operational support, implementing enhancement requests, debugging/correcting defects, and documenting systems processes.

Activities include, but are not limited to

• Guide a team of developers in the analysis, design, and development of integrated solutions for the project.
• Assist the project development teams to establish and document standards and patterns for ‘best practices’ of integration technologies.
• Mentor state staff developers in advanced programming techniques and skills.
• Create and review sequence and activity diagrams.
• Analyze, design, and develop services and business processes from business requirements.
• Orchestrate individual system components into end-to-end business processes as part of a comprehensive system.
• Construct software applications using J2EE, SOA, and Microservice architectures.
• Construct software applications within a cloud environment (preferably Google Cloud Platform).
• Develop applications front-end screens using Angular methodologies.
• Develop and test data access using Object Relation Mapping frameworks (Hibernate/JPA).
• Develop complex relational database queries using ANSI standard SQL and PL/SQL to be used with Oracle and DB2 databases giving special consideration to transaction management.
• Perform database transaction management analysis, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Perform unit and integration testing and resolve defects.
• Perform performance testing using JMeter.
• Create and review technical documents for all aspects of the software development life-cycle.
• Provide new technology evaluations resulting from research, proof of concept (POC), and proof of technology (POT) work.