Java Developer- Hybrid

Title: Java Developer- Hybrid

Location: Saint Paul, MN, United States

Length: Long term

Restriction: W2 or C2C

Description:

*** Very long term project initial PO for 1 year but expect to go for 3-4 years ***Webcam Interview*** ***Mostly Remote***

Description:

As the statewide administrator for USDA Child Nutrition programs, the Nutrition Program Services (NPS) Division of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is concerned with maintaining and improving the automated information technology systems used to operate and manage all Child Nutrition (CN) Programs (i.e., School Meal Programs, Summer Food Service Program and Child and Adult Care Food Program). MNIT/MDE would like to ensure the NPS can successfully continue statewide administration of USDA nutrition programs by regularly maintaining the CLiCS application, and when necessary, improve with enhancements. The goals of this project are to:

Increase user satisfaction regarding the CLICS sponsor and site application features.

Improve CLiCS’ viability, sustainability and maintainability relating to the sponsor and site application areas.

Help ensure that Minnesota is in compliance with USDA regulations related to sponsor and site applications.

Sample Tasks

Collaborate with business users, business analyst and developers to produce software designs

Provide work estimates to project manager, provide frequent status updates and track progress against the project work plan

Formulate technical design, program specifications and basic prototypes

Elicit/refine requirements and transform software designs and specifications into high functioning code in the appropriate language

Architect, design and Integrate individual software solutions to higher level systems

Use web-based tools to create and advance applications

Test code periodically to ensure it produces the desirable results and perform debugging when necessary

Collaborate with business, development, and QA teams to develop testing and acceptance procedures

Perform upgrades to make software and systems more secure and efficient

Collaborate with business analyst, developers, and management to provide training, knowledge transfer, and documentation for technical support staff.

Work independently to design, build, and implementation of software applications and features

Provide project leadership, mentoring and training to other software developers on the team

Provide knowledge transfer.

Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills:

Five (5) Years of experience developing complete object-oriented Java web applications including analysis, design, implementation, build scripting, unit testing of user interface, controller, business logic, and data tiers using the Spring Framework.

Five (5) Years of experience working directly with business users to design user interfaces in Java web application and implementation including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, JSP and Bootstrap.

Three (3) Years of experience of developing web applications using Groovy/Grails.

Two (2) Years of software architecture experience with designing and developing scalable complex applications

Five (5) Years of experience developing software both independently and leading/guiding a team

Three (3) Years of SQL relational database design and coding experience

Experience with Java frameworks including Spring MVC, Java Server Pages (JSP), and Hibernate

Experience developing APIs, web services

Experience working directly with business users to elicit, refine and document requirements

Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills