NYS IES PRD-Developer Level 3; Sr Java Developer

Opportunity Details

Full Time NYS IES PRD
- Developer Level 3 (Sr Java Developer) Albany, NY (Hybrid) 31 month contract

Outcomes. Delivered. Voyatek delivers outcome-driven technology solutions to public sector agencies and higher education institutions nationwide. For example, our technology:

Facilitates access to nutritious food for children of mothers participating in the WIC program

Supports first responders in reducing opioid overdoses within their communities

Empowers colleges and universities to identify and thwart financial aid fraud

Equips teachers with valuable insights to identify students requiring additional support

Enhances efficiency for state tax agencies, leading to 99% faster return processing and quicker refunds for taxpayers

With a focus on Tax & Revenue, Health & Human Services, and Justice & Public Safety, Voyatek combines the scale to support large complex projects with the agility and accessibility of a boutique solutions provider. Together, Voyatek and its customers work to improve population wellbeing, create safer communities, and foster a thriving economy. We're more than a technology company -- we're an outcomes company.

We encourage our employees to think differently, ask tough questions, and relentlessly pursue what's best for our customers and the residents they serve.

We believe that the value of technology is defined by its human impact. If you agree, you've come to the right place.

Voyatek is seeking applicants to occupy the position of Level 3 Developer - Senior Java Developer within our team NYS Integrated Eligibility Systems located in Albany, NY (hybrid). This position is a 31 month contract. The mission of the Integrated Eligibility System (IES) is to enhance the well-being of New Yorkers by transforming health and human service delivery through coordinated business practices, modernized technology, and strategic partnerships.

IES will provide eligibility, enrollment, case management, and payment functionality for Health and Human Service programs currently served by the Welfare Management System, Benefits Issuance Control System and other State systems. IES will build on the successful opening of the New York State of Health (NYSoH) by leveraging assets created for the health benefit exchange to modernize the eligibility system for health and human service programs.

• Design, develop, and maintain mission-critical microservices and applications that support child support case management operations.
• Build and deploy loosely coupled, independently deployable services with well-defined API contracts.
• Develop scalable web applications, RESTful APIs, batch jobs, and integration services for the application platform.
• Develop and optimize Spring Batch jobs for high-volume data processing, reporting, and scheduled workflows.
• Implement data access layers using Hibernate/JPA against PostgreSQL databases.
• Manage inter-service communication patterns including synchronous REST calls and asynchronous messaging.
• Collaborate with architects and business analysts to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentor junior developers.
• Troubleshoot application issues and provide timely resolutions across distributed microservices.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements and deployment automation for microservices.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Work with cross-functional teams on system integration efforts including third-party and inter-agency data exchanges.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Level III
  - More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer
• 7+ years of professional Java development experience with strong proficiency in Java 21 (records, sealed classes, pattern matching, virtual threads). One to three years of experience designing and building microservices architectures - service decomposition, API gateway patterns, service discovery, and distributed configuration; deploying and operating microservices on AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, Lambda)
• Seven years of experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud);
  Spring Batch for large-scale batch processing; solid understanding of Hibernate/JPA for ORM and database interaction; experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases; building and consuming RESTful APIs with proper versioning and contract-first design; experience with inter-service communication patterns (REST, messaging queues, event-driven).

• Experience with government or public sector projects
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or similar) for microservices deployment pipelines; distributed system concerns: fault tolerance, circuit breakers, retries, and observability.
• Hands-on experience with microservices patterns such as saga, CQRS, event sourcing, and API composition;…