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Contract - W2
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I. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Texas Department of Insurance requires the services of 1 Software Developer 3, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of Software Developer 3, Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Department of Insurance.
All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Department of Insurance and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Department of Insurance will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).
One software developer is being solicited by TDI to perform work on legacy modernization projects in a natural ADABAS application to serve the business needs of the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC). Emphasis of work performed shall be on application and data migration efforts. The work will include, but is not limited to, assessing user requirements/stories and translating them into technical tasks and actual script development to identify data elements in a natural ADABAS application, establish new table structure in Oracle 19c, write scripts to move the data to the new tables, and supporting, patching and upgrading Natural programming language, ADABAS database, and CONNX software. This effort will involve close collaboration with other members of the project team, including but not limited to the application architect, other developers, and the database administrator. Additionally, database views may be created for use in Tableau to assist with comprehensive agency business intelligence needs. Contract staff will also be responsible for writing technical documentation. The worker should have a strong knowledge of and experience working on software development projects and general project lifecycle. The contract staff shall work on an agile scrum team, participating in regular meetings, work sessions, and interactions with the business owners and the project team. They should be a self-starter with experience working in a virtual collaborative setting with an agile scrum development team. The worker should possess strong written and oral presentation skills, with abilities to help present work done in an application. This work will extend to at least one project to migrate data, data collection, and reporting to an agency application from two different existing processes but may also include other projects as determined by time remaining in contract. Any and all project work shall be limited to workflows, business processes, and other functionality originating from DWC and identified as a legacy modernization effort.
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Texas Department of Insurance requires the services of 1 Software Developer 3, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of Software Developer 3, Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Department of Insurance.
All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Department of Insurance and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Department of Insurance will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).
One software developer is being solicited by TDI to perform work on legacy modernization projects in a natural ADABAS application to serve the business needs of the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC). Emphasis of work performed shall be on application and data migration efforts. The work will include, but is not limited to, assessing user requirements/stories and translating them into technical tasks and actual script development to identify data elements in a natural ADABAS application, establish new table structure in Oracle 19c, write scripts to move the data to the new tables, and supporting, patching and upgrading Natural programming language, ADABAS database, and CONNX software. This effort will involve close collaboration with other members of the project team, including but not limited to the application architect, other developers, and the database administrator. Additionally, database views may be created for use in Tableau to assist with comprehensive agency business intelligence needs. Contract staff will also be responsible for writing technical documentation. The worker should have a strong knowledge of and experience working on software development projects and general project lifecycle. The contract staff shall work on an agile scrum team, participating in regular meetings, work sessions, and interactions with the business owners and the project team. They should be a self-starter with experience working in a virtual collaborative setting with an agile scrum development team. The worker should possess strong written and oral presentation skills, with abilities to help present work done in an application. This work will extend to at least one project to migrate data, data collection, and reporting to an agency application from two different existing processes but may also include other projects as determined by time remaining in contract. Any and all project work shall be limited to workflows, business processes, and other functionality originating from DWC and identified as a legacy modernization effort.
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
| Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. | ||
| Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
| 8 | Required | Working as a software developer on software application development projects, either as enhancements or ground-up initiatives |
| 8 | Required | Coding using the following tools: Attachmate EXTRA!, Natural 8.3, Adabas 6.5, Unix AIX 7.2, Cronus Espbatch Job Scheduler, SCL (JCL) System Control Language, Oracle 12c or 19c database, SQL, and SVN (or other version control software) |
| 8 | Required | Experience supporting, patching and upgrading Natural programming language, ADABAS database, and CONNX software. |
| 8 | Required | Eliciting requirements from end users and forming epics and user stories, then translating them to functional tasks for technical staff |
| 8 | Required | Following requirements and user stories end-to-end to guarantee proper delivery of requested functionality |
| 8 | Required | Writing technical documentation |
| 8 | Required | Testing applications to ensure user requirements are met |
| 3 | Required | Using Microsoft Teams or other collaboration tool to communicate and work within a team |
| 3 | Required | Working on an agile scrum team as a software developer |
| 3 | Required | Estimating work and sizing tasks for sprint development |
| 4 | Preferred | Writing user documentation |
| 4 | Preferred | Experience with NearStar print management and EntireX by SoftwareAG |
| 4 | Preferred | Experience working on Java applications. |
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