Java developer
Location: Woodlawn, MD
Duration: Long Term Contract
Description of Work:
• Provide development support to the government client and enable design, development, and implementation of complex systems.
• Participate in the full life cycle of an agile or waterfall projects by designing and developing user interfaces and applications.
• Conduct unit testing to ensure high quality bug free code.
• Decompose business and system architecture to support clean-interface multi-team development.
• Understands the business problem statement, user stories, and technical constraints
• Participate in planning, retrospectives, demos and daily stand-ups.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
• Design and implement scalable and robust approaches to caching, security, and databases.
• Develop and use web-based APIs (especially REST-based APIs).
• Implement web programming techniques and frameworks.
• Ensure Section 508 Compliance.
• Provide weekly and monthly status to the management.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
• Become knowledgeable on the Disability process, ensure understanding of the systems and application processes to be able to execute that role in an effective manner.
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed.
• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relative experience, Master's degree and 5 years of relative experience, or 11 years of relative experience in an IT field in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience with Java or J2EE, Websphere, Maven, Git, Jenkins
• Minimum of 4 years of experience utilizing one or more of the following: JEE Security, Java Batch, EJBRoles and VBA
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with two or more of the following frameworks/technologies: JPA/Hibernate, SOA and web service technologies, Struts 2.0 framework, and web development (HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS, Custom Tags)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in developing, documenting, building and maintaining interactive/dynamic web pages using Java. The development environment to be used are Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software (RAS) and Microsoft Visual Studio
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with AWS
• Minimum of 1 year of experience using a code repository such as Nexus with distributed version control such as Git/Bit Bucket.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.
• Prior Goverment/Federal experience
• Experience with relational database systems including PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and DB2; and writing complex SQL queries
• Development, design and production support experience
• Ability to contribute to design and architecture discussions
• Experience in creating design/technical documentation
• Experience in different application servers
• Experience in developing Design patterns and UMLs
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology and tools (such as Version One, Rally, or JIRA)
• Proficient in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and SharePoint
• Extensive knowledge of SOA principle, design patterns, application and integration architectures.
• Extensive experience in Object Relational Mapping technologies like JPA/Hibernate in web service technologies
• Extensive experience with Unit Testing using Junit