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J2EE/Portal applications Developer
As part of HHSC IT Applications – Social Services Applications initiatives, the worker will perform the following activities to accomplish the following goals:
- Performs application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support for State Portal, Workflow Management, Eligibility Web Services, Family Violence Program, Enterprise Document Services, Enterprise Content Management, Document Center, Call Center Inquiry, and other Social Services applications.
- Develop, enhance and maintain existing and new web-based J2EE/Portal 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.
- Work with other teams as necessary to accomplish goals.
- Create technical and design documentation.
- Perform system analysis and problem resolution.
- Develop and maintain data and process models.
- Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly.
- Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts.
- Participate in program design, coding, and test walk-through meetings.
- Provide application support for web-based Java applications in an SOA platform.
- Other duties as assigned.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
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.
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.
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 | Hands-on experience in Server-side/Web Services development, enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications on the J2EE application development platform. |
| 8 | Required | Hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC. |
| 8 | Required | Hands-on development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server, Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies. |
| 8 | Required | Hands-on programming experience using Java, J2EE, REST/SOAP, HTML5, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular, Typescript, Spring, JSON, XML, JWT, NPM, Maven, OpenAPI v3, OAuth, Postman, ReadyAPI, Mulesoft and/or similar technologies. |
| 8 | Required | Experience implementing REST services supporting client-facing applications. Experience implementing REST services security using JWT, OAuth, and other related technologies/standards. |
| 8 | Required | Experience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components. Demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining an enterprise-level web services including complete ownership of the services stack. |
| 3 | Preferred | Hands-on experience with JBoss or IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later. |
| 3 | Preferred | Hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum). |
| 3 | Preferred | Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodologies and containerized application deployments. |
| 3 | Preferred | Hands-on experience with web applications developed for Cloud platforms. |
| 3 | Preferred | Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Selenium. |
Terms of Service
Services are expected to start on 01/19/2026 and are expected to complete by 08/31/2026.
The primary work location(s) will be at 1609 Centre Creek Dr., Suite 200, Austin, TX 78754. The working position is Hybrid - On Site and Telework. Position will be 3 days remote with 2 days (Mondays and Thursdays) required to be onsite at the location listed above. ***Subject to change per manager***
Program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position.
Other Special Requirements
Interviews will be conducted:
- ☐ By Phone
- ☒ In person
- ☒ Through Microsoft Teams