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

• Performs application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support for Social Services applications.

• Enhance and maintain existing business processes and develop new processes as needed, using state of the art tools and technologies (like SOAP/REST, MQ, BPEL, Datapower and Spring framework) using Agile methodologies.

• Develop, enhance and maintain existing and new web-based Java/J2EE applications within HHSC’s SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform using Agile methodologies. 

• 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.

Education:

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is required, with strong understanding and experience of fundamental programming concepts of data structures, algorithms, performance, caching and scalability issues in the context of Web based UI applications.