Devcare Solutions Hiring for Java Developer at Harrisburg, PA Full Time

This position will support the Department of Environmental
Protections Bureau of Labs mission critical application called
Talisman.

The Talisman system is a comprehensive, enterprise level system designed to help regulatory personnel and laboratories track all accreditation information. The system captures and reports current accreditation, accreditation history, assessment information, proficiency testing data, and laboratory documents. The system is designed to help solve the challenges of data entry and document management facing laboratories and accreditation bodies across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Talisman is developed using Spring and Spring MVC frameworks for
an annotation-based model-view-controller architecture. The system
performs validations with Spring validator and includes various
regular expressions. Mybatis 3.22 which uses XML-wrapped SQL
statements are used as a data layer to communicate with backend
database Oracle 12C. Log4j is used for the logging purposes. JQuery
and HTML5 have been used in the front end. The system is deployed
on oracle WebLogic server. Third party free open source tools
Itextpdf has been used to generate pdf reports whereas Freemarker
Velocity has been used to handle mail mergers in Talisman.

It is a Java 1.6.0_024 application, but the application will be
upgraded to Java 1.8 in the next year and a half. New
technologies and upgraded components will be introduced as part of
that effort and support will be required for these as well.

Role Description:

• Delivers support for the mission critical Talisman application for the Bureau of Labs.
• Provides effective on-site product support 2 days a week and additional time on an as needed basis.
• Responsible for leading development efforts related to products/services that involve significant Commonwealth oversight and customer interaction.

o Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts daily.
o Must provide weekly status updates to team manager or other DEP managers.
o Communicates accurate and useful status updates for work in progress as requested.
o Strong communication skills; both written and spoken.

• Anticipates, identifies, tracks, and resolves issues, risks, action items affecting own work.
• Provides full life cycle product support to include:

o Provide accurate and complete answers to detailed product questions in a timely manner as they arise.
o Identifies appropriate business examples to illustrate key concepts / features when interacting with the customer.
o Production issues and tickets as they arise
o Enhancements and modifications to the application to meet the customers’ needs
o Responsible for collaborating with other technical resources to support the Talisman application.
o Aid in production deployments of systems as needed.

• Strong analytical and customer service skills.
• Strong ability to synthesize/understand customer requirements and create effective user stories and overall design approach.
• Provides accurate estimates for design and programming efforts for system changes and enhancements.
• Determines time estimates and schedule for own work and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Coordinates and participates in design reviews to verify that design meets quality standards and functional/technical requirements.
• Applies specific expertise to ensure that products meet defined customer objectives.
• Confirms that technical architecture will support all changes required by product enhancements.
• Documents all work for future reference.

o Provides training and / or documentation materials regarding latest technical and functional design changes.
o Develops appropriate functional and usability standards for products
o Develops user guides

• Effectively leads product tests and trials.
• Reviews the system test approach and conditions used as the basis for detailed test scenarios.
• Follows quality standards and complies with CEDC development processes and metrics.
• Able to work in a fast-paced team environment.
• Develops contingency plans as necessary.
• Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner.

Skills Required:
15+ years experience in a relevant IT related field
7+ years using Spring
5+ years using JSTL tag libraries
6+ years utilizing Oracle 11G-12C database
3+ year utilizing connector tools such as Mybatis 3.22
5+ years XML/XSLT/FO
3+ years in Freemarker Velocity or similar mail merger software
3+ years with Log4j or similar logging tool.
5+ years with JDeveloper 11.1.2 and 12.2.1
3+ years with Spring Web MVC
5+ years with PL/SQL
3+ years with Hibernate Validator
3+ years with JQuery
5+ years with Java 1.6 or Java 1.8
VSTS
GIT
WebLogic Application Server

Preferred skills:
2+ years Gson,
2+ years Soup,
2+ years Xdocreport, Itxtpdf, and Poi
Model-View-Controller design pattern
Dependency Injection
Inversion of control

Job Type: Contract

Salary: From $75.00 per hour

Schedule:

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Harrisburg, PA 17101: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Git: 1 year (Required)
• Spring: 1 year (Required)
• SQL: 1 year (Required)
• HTML5: 1 year (Required)
• IT: 10 years (Required)

Work Location: One location