Texas Residents Only | No relocations considered | Remote from any city WITHIN Texas

I.  DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Texas Health and Human Services Commission requires the services of 1 Software Engineer 3, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of Software Engineer 3, Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of One Developer hereafter referred to as Worker, who meets the general qualification of Developer 3 Emerging and the specifications outlined in this document for Health & Human Services Commission - Social Services Applications team.
As part of HHSC IT Applications – Social Services Applications initiatives, the worker will perform the following activities to accomplish the following goals:

• Develop, enhance, and maintain existing and new Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications within HHSC’s SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform using Agile methodologies.
• As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing, and deployment of new application components, as required.
• Work with other teams as necessary to accomplish goals.
• Create technical and design documentation, as required.
• Perform system analysis and problem resolution, as required.
• Analyze software for configuration and performance tuning opportunities, as required.
• Develop and maintain data and process models, as required.
• Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error.
• Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts.
• Participate in program design, coding, and test walk-through meetings to provide input regarding technical standards and customer requirements.
• Provide application support (defect repair, maintenance, and production operations support) for Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications in an SOA platform. Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis, and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities. Develop and test application code to resolve defects and improve application reliability and performance.
• Other duties as assigned.

II.  CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
 

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years	Required/ Preferred	Experience
8	Required	Hands-on experience in enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications using mavenized Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications.
8	Required	Hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle).
8	Required	Extensive experience using Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for professional documentation, communication, and project management.
8	Required	Hands-on development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server, Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies.
8	Required	Hands-on programming experience in the following languages and technologies: Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, iText, JSON, XML, Maven, Python, Shell Scripts, JFrog, Hibernate, JPA, SQL, Groovy, JMeter, JUnit, Mockito, Git, IBM MQ.
8	Required	Extensive experience working with Linux operating systems, including system administration, scripting, and optimizing performance in enterprise environments.
8	Required	Experience in developing self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.
8	Required	Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Selenium.
8	Required	Demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining enterprise-level mavenized Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications, including complete ownership of the backend stack.
8	Required	Experience in implementing best practices in the areas of application design, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
8	Required	Strong understanding of Java interactions with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
8	Required	Experience in the manipulation and processing of PDF files within enterprise applications.
8	Required	Experience in fundamental programming concepts of data structures, algorithms, performance, caching, and scalability issues in the context of mavenized Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications.
5	Preferred	Hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later
5	Preferred	Hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum)
5	Preferred	Hands-on experience with developing Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications for Cloud platforms.
5	Preferred	Comprehensive REST Service Endpoint Documentation
5	Preferred	Experience using Splunk for monitoring, searching, and analyzing data generated by online REST services or applications/services deployed to WebSphere, for troubleshooting and improving application performance.