Senior Java Developer

Location: Harrisburg, PA

Position Type: Hybrid

Hybrid Schedule: 1 day in office per week minimum (must be flexible to be on site 5 days if management team requires)

Contract Length: 6 month, contract-to-hire

Position Overview:

The Senior Developer is responsible for using approved programming languages, operating systems and source code to create, enhance, and maintain application solutions that meet the identified functional and non-functional business requirements. This role performs more complex assignments and has greater responsibility in the development process and work closely with Application/Integration Architects and Solution Architects to build and enhance systems at the Agency.

Duties:

Lead development and execution of unit tests and functional test coverage for assigned coding changes to ensure code quality.

Code/build application solutions from specifications provided by Requirements Analysts and Application/ Integration Architect

Lead testing of application software modifications utilizing various programming platforms and productivity tools and review results for accuracy.

Perform complex coding and testing in multiple systems and/or processes.

Assist in defining and enforcing processes and procedures to ensure the quality of technical solutions.

Present solutions and represent development team in code reviews.

Represent development team in broader technical reviews used to detect defects in requirements, design, code, test cases, or other project artifacts.

Oversee and enforce documentation of all code changes.

Collaborate with Application/ Integration Architects in the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments.

Manage source code changes using approved version control systems according to established version management approaches and methods as defined.

Develop and refresh code construction fundamentals for coding practices, guideline for use of data, control-related concepts, and error-detection practices

Collaborate with other areas to identify and evaluate risks; participate in mitigation and control activities.

Provide on-call support in support of systems and applications in production.

Lead development team in production support activities including incident and problem management, code corrections, upgrades and patches

Required Skills:

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Software Development Tools and Programming Languages

Software development principles, practices, and concepts

Object-Oriented (OO) concepts and application to design, architecture, and development

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (REST, SOAP)

IBM WebSphere Application Server

IBM MQ Series

Web Security (keys, certificates, trusts, etc.)

Source code management tools (Subversion, Git)

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies and tools

Structured Query Language (SQL)

Relational and NoSQL databases

Excellent verbal and written communication skillsJAVA

Java EE

Hibernate

Spring Framework

Quarkus (or similar microservice frameworks)

Serverless architectures and/or containerization

AWS technologies (EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, etc.)

Model-View-Controller (MVC) frameworks

Distributed Java technologies (MDB, EJB)

Eclipse IDE and/or Microsoft VS Code

Apache Maven

HTML (HyperText Markup Language)

JavaScript and/or TypeScript

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Preferred Skills:

ColdFusion

ColdFusion Components

ColdFusion Builder