Iowa HHS provides high quality programs and services that protect and improve the health and resiliency of individuals, families, and communities. The public health IT team at HHS is a fun and rewarding place to work. The team fosters growth amongst our peers.
The disease surveillance system for the state of Iowa is currently being replaced. This position will be a developer on the scrum team working alongside the vendor during development. They will then continue to support and enhance the system in an agile approach.
We are looking for a self-starter who is charged with designing and coding software on an agile development team. A good candidate will have a positive attitude and strong communication skills to work closely with clients to determine what they need, then use programming languages to create programs.
The technology responsibilities of this position are as follows:
Daily breakdown
20% Meetings
80% Development and documentation
| Skill | Required /Desired | Amount | of Experience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experience in Groovy, SpEL & PostgreSQL | Required | 7 | Years |
| Experience in agile frameworks and popular coding languages such as, Jira, GITHUB and CI/CD | Required | 3 | Years |
| Must have critical thinking skills, as well as strong problem-solving abilities. | Required | 0 | |
| Experience producing Clean, efficient code based on specifications.. | Required | 5 | Years |
| Experience with Jasper reports | Highly desired | 0 | |
| Experience with Testing and deploying programs and systems. | Required | 5 | Years |
| Experience with Integrating software components and third-party programs | Required | 5 | Years |
| Ability to Gather and evaluate user feedback to recommend and execute improvements. | Required | 5 | Years |
| Create technical documentation for reference and reporting | Required | 0 | |
| Excellent communication skills and attention to detail | Required | 5 | Years |
| Resourcefulness and troubleshooting skills | Required | 0 | |
| Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping | Required | 5 | Years |
| No. | Question |
|---|---|
| Question1 | The Contractor must report any disciplinary action, misdemeanor or felony convictions to the State for any temporary IT staff provided. Do you agree to this requirement? |
| Question2 | Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI Management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that a resource can be reached during his or her absence. The client has the right to dismiss the resource if she or he does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you accept this requirement? |
| Question3 | This requirement falls under the E-RTR process. The candidate MUST submit their Right to Represent electronically following the process to be considered. Do you accept this requirement? |
| Question4 | Please list candidate's email address. |
| Question5 | The Vendor Rate for this position is -. Do you accept this requirement? |
| Question6 | PROVIDE CANDIDATES CURRENT PHYSICAL LOCATION [HERE] |
| Question7 | INTERVIEW DATES: Interviews will be conducted on [May 8, 9, 10] only to submit candidates available for interviews on the date(s) provided. |
| Question8 | SHOW YOUR WORK - In the summary of qualifications field under the details tab of the candidate's profile, you should explain why your candidate is the best fit for this position. Please confirm that you have thoroughly validated and attested to the accuracy of the credentials listed throughout this candidate's VectorVMS profile and resume according to Section 5.2.5 of ITS-009440. Do you confirm? Candidates will get rejected if an agency cuts and pastes the candidates' resumes into this field. |
| Question9 | DOM DoIT contractor personnel are now required to undergo additional background check investigations (run by DOM DoIT) before starting, requiring the completion of several waiver forms & fingerprint processes. The selected candidate will be responsible for completing all the necessary waiver forms, scheduling and completing the fingerprinting process, and returning all completed items to DOM DoIT for processing. Please confirm you have discussed this with your candidate, and he/she will comply if selected. |