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This is a contract with a great organization. As a contractor for Smith Johnson, you are eligible for medical, dental, life, disability. Smith Johnson pays for 70% of your medical and dental and 100% of life and disability. The contract is also eligible for PTO/holiday accrued monthly. You are also eligible for a 3% retirement matching plan. Smith Johnson believes in taking care of our contractors. 

Job Description:

Our client is looking for an experienced Engineer working on SQL databases hosted on Windows and Linux servers with a strong focus on database migration, re-platforming, and adoption of cloud computing services. The ideal candidate will lead our transition from Informix to a more modern, mainstream database management system; PostgreSQL hosted on AWS cloud services to enhance our data processing capabilities and support future scalability and performance needs. The chosen candidate will also provide interim database maintenance, support, and administration supporting various applications while cross-training in-house support staff to assume those duties and responsibilities long term. This position is a Java-based, Senior Web Applications Developer that belongs to an Agile DevOps Team(s) and performs all Developer roles on large, complex system functions and products. This position requires advanced knowledge, skills and abilities of application coding, technical environments, development tools and typical application development processes. The environment is a JAVA-based web platform.

Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Experience:

• Principles, theories, and practices of computer science
• Concepts of computer hardware operation and application development
• Concepts of computer screens, pages, features, functions and coding concepts
• Computer relational and other databases and database analysis software
• Learn and use automated software applications
• Understand project definitions, scope, objectives, business work flow processes and diagrams, application and database requirements, business functional specifications, design and technical specifications, business and technical standards documents, test case scenarios and other analysis and design tasks and reports
• Use logic to analyze or identify underlying principles, reasons, or facts associated with information or data to draw conclusions
• Find and collect information from data sources
• Use computer software programs to store data, retrieve stored data, analyze retrieved data, and arrange results in a presentable format
• Review and analyze data, summarize report findings, interpret results and make recommendations
• Identify problems or potential problem areas and recommend solutions
• Evaluate information against a set of standards
• Gather and document business requirements
• Define and document standards for use and operation of software
• Convert standards, user specifications and requirements into design plans
• Develop test cases to evaluate the success of both software upgrades and modifications
• Test applications using standard methodologies and techniques
• Validate applications for requirements, quality, responsiveness, performance, accessibility, data integrity, functionality, user acceptance
• Ensure products comply with regulations, policies, procedures, operational practices
• Prepare software documentation for future reference and maintenance needs
• Anticipate the impact that new or modified software will have on existing standards and systems
• Plan, organize, prioritize workload in order to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines
• Deal with people in a manner which shows sensitivity, tact, and professionalism
• Work effectively with a work group or team to complete tasks
• Build Team spirit and cohesiveness
• Organize, chair, facilitate and document meetings with users and technical staff
• Prepare and present technical training a d mentoring to other staff
• Communicate information and ideas clearly, and concisely, orally and in writing

Special considerations:

• Direct experience employed as a programmer developing and maintaining computer software applications and programs using Java-based, Web languages, tools and technologies, including: Java, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, HTML, JPA, JavaScript, jQuery, Java IDEs and related JAVA sets
• Direct participation as a principal web developer on projects building or maintaining mission-critical applications for a medium to large size private or public organizations (i.e 1,000 or more employees)
• Experience with CSS, Web Services, Informix databases, SQL databases, other relational databases, Business Intelligence tools and applications, development for mobile devices, and/or other emerging technologies
• Training and experience with development methods and approaches to application security
• Direct experience as a web developer on systems operational within the criminal justice field (e.g. Courts, Public Safety, Local Law Enforcement, Corrections, Parole Boards, Criminal Justice Commissions, etc.)
• Academic qualifications in the computer science field