Job Description

Location: Harrisburg, PA
Position Type: Hybrid
Hybrid Schedule: 1 day in office per week minimum (must be flexible to be on site 5 days if management team requires)
Contract Length: 6 month, contract-to-hire


The Senior Developer is responsible for using approved programming languages, operating systems and source code to create, enhance, and maintain application solutions that meet the identified functional and non-functional business requirements. This role performs more complex assignments and has greater responsibility in the development process and work closely with Application/Integration Architects and Solution Architects to build and enhance systems at the Agency.

Duties:

• Lead development and execution of unit tests and functional test coverage for assigned coding changes to ensure code quality.
• Code/build application solutions from specifications provided by Requirements Analysts and Application/ Integration Architect
• Lead testing of application software modifications utilizing various programming platforms and productivity tools and review results for accuracy.
• Perform complex coding and testing in multiple systems and/or processes.
• Assist in defining and enforcing processes and procedures to ensure the quality of technical solutions.
• Present solutions and represent development team in code reviews.
• Represent development team in broader technical reviews used to detect defects in requirements, design, code, test cases, or other project artifacts.
• Oversee and enforce documentation of all code changes.
• Collaborate with Application/ Integration Architects in the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments.
• Manage source code changes using approved version control systems  according to established version management approaches and methods as defined.
• Develop and refresh code construction fundamentals for coding practices, guideline for use of data, control-related concepts, and error-detection practices
• Collaborate with other areas to identify and evaluate risks; participate in mitigation and control activities.
• Provide on-call support in support of systems and applications in production.
• Lead development team in production support activities including incident and problem management, code corrections, upgrades and patches

Required Skills:
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

• Software Development Tools and Programming Languages
• Software development principles, practices, and concepts
• Object-Oriented (OO) concepts and application to design, architecture, and development
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (REST, SOAP)
• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• IBM MQ Series
• Web Security (keys, certificates, trusts, etc.)
• Source code management tools (Subversion, Git)
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies and tools
• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Relational and NoSQL databases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

JAVA

• Java EE
• Hibernate
• Spring Framework
• Quarkus (or similar microservice frameworks)
• Serverless architectures and/or containerization
• AWS technologies (EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, etc.)
• Model-View-Controller (MVC) frameworks
• Distributed Java technologies (MDB, EJB)
• Eclipse IDE and/or Microsoft VS Code
• Apache Maven
• HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
• JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Preferred Skills:

• ColdFusion
• ColdFusion Components
• ColdFusion Builder