Overview
Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 32 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Java/J2EE Developer to be a key resource on a technical services team.
Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.
Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check
Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.
**Location of job: Remote**
Responsibilities
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
As part of the client's 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 the client’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.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- 8 years of hands-on experience in Front End/UI development, enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications on the J2EE application development platform
- 8 years of hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)
- 8 years of hands-on development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server, Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies
- 8 years of 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 years experience implementing Client-facing applications with responsive design and development
- 8 years experience implementing SPAs with JS or with libraries/frameworks like Angular
- 8 years experience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
- 8 years experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Selenium
- 8 years of demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining an enterprise-level Angular application including complete ownership of the front-end stack (JavaScript/Angular/HTML/CSS).
- 8 years experience in implementing best practices in the areas of application design, performance, scalability and maintainability.
Preferred:
- 5 years of hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later
- 5 years of hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum)
- 5 years of hands-on experience with web applications developed for Cloud platform
- 5 years of hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology
- 5 years of hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms
