TEXAS RESIDENTS ONLY

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.
 

Level Description
8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, may lead and direct the work of others, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Job Description
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.

Additional job details and special considerations
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:

• Performs application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support for State Portal, Workflow Management, Eligibility Web Services, Family Violence Program, Enterprise Document Services, Enterprise Content Management, Document Center, Call Center Inquiry, and other Social Services applications.
• Develop, enhance and maintain existing and new web-based J2EE/Portal 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 & 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 web-based Java 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 Front End/UI development, enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications on the J2EE application development platform
8	Required	Hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)
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 following languages: Java, J2EE, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular, Typescript, Spring, Java Server Pages, JSON, XML, ES5/ES6, NPM, Maven and/or other UI frameworks/libraries.
8	Required	Experience implementing Client-facing applications with responsive design and development
8	Required	Experience implementing SPAs with JS or with libraries/frameworks like Angular
8	Required	Experience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
8	Required	Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Selenium
8	Required	Demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining an enterprise-level Angular application including complete ownership of the front-end stack (JavaScript/Angular/HTML/CSS).
8	Required	Experience in implementing best practices in the areas of application design, performance, scalability and maintainability.
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 web applications developed for Cloud platform
5	Preferred	Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology
5	Preferred	Hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms