Programmer - J2EE, IBM Stack

Senior Programmer

The position is in support of the Department of Labor's (DOL's) UISIm (Unemployment Insurance Service Improvement) 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 sun setting the UI Employer and Worker Protection applications.

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.

Day-to-Day Tasks:

• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 60 months of experience developing SOA/Microservices based N-Tier Web Applications using J2EE, industry standard patterns, and Agile methodologies.
• 60 months experience developing complex relational database queries with particular focus on Object Relation Mapping (Hibernate/JPA).
• 36 Months experience using JSF development/JavaScript.
• 24 Months experience using Cloud infrastructure platforms, such as Google Cloud Platform.
• 60 months using modern IDE's preferably Eclipse and/or IBM's Design/Development tool stack: (ie, Rational Application Developer (RAD/IID), Web Sphere Message Broker/IBM Integration Bus).
• 36 Months experience using Git Hub/Git Lab repository.
• 36 Months experience using Spring Boot.
• 60 months experience using solution design software (Examples: MS Visio) to interpret UML diagrams, creating of Service Models, Service Classification Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams, for model-driven development in Rational Application Developer (RAD/IID).

MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.