NCDHHS - Child Support - Senior Full Stack AI/Java Developer – AI-Driven Modernization
Experience Level: Senior
About the Role
The Child Support System Enhancement Effort aims to migrate critical functionality from a legacy mainframe system to a modern, web-based platform. This initiative will improve scalability, security, and user experience while ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. The modernization effort involves re-engineering business processes, implementing new technologies, and integrating with existing systems in an Agile development environment.
Join our Child Support team to transform a legacy mainframe system into a modern, web-based platform that improves usability, accessibility, and scalability. We’re seeking a Senior Full Stack AI/Java Developer who is passionate about AI-driven innovation and building secure, scalable solutions that make a real impact.
The Senior Full Stack Java Developer – AI-Driven Modernization is a critical role that combines deep Java expertise with AI-powered development practices to transform legacy mainframe applications into a secure, scalable, and user-friendly web-based platform. This position requires hands-on coding experience across the stack and the ability to embed AI into every stage of the software development lifecycle—from design and coding to testing, security, and performance optimization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead full-stack development using Java (8+ or higher),Spring Boot, Spring Data, and ORM tools like Hibernate/JPA.
- AI Security & Governance - Experienced in implementing AI security best practices, compliance frameworks, and governance models to ensure ethical, secure, and responsible AI integration in development workflows
- Apply AI-driven practices for code generation, automated testing, security vulnerability detection, and performance optimization.
- Write AI prompts and specifications into development workflows, ensuring clarity and accuracy for automated processes.
- Build responsive front-end interfaces with HTML5,CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks such as React or Angular or similar.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs, ensure secure and scalable architecture, and manage data migration to relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 or similar).
- Integrate messaging platforms (JMS, RabbitMQ, Kafka or similar).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar) and follow Agile methodologies.
- Ensure compliance with secure coding standards and contribute to technical documentation and deployment support.
Required Skills & Experience
- Hands-on experience in Java development with full-stack expertise.
- Experience in AI prompt engineering and writing AI specifications for development automation and intelligent workflows.
- Experience applying AI in software development processes(code generation, automated testing, security scanning, optimization).
Experienced in implementing AI Security & Governance, AI security best practices, understanding and applying security safeguard when using agentic AI - Experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, Gemini, Windsurf or similar).
- AI Security & Governance - Experienced in implementing AI security best practices, compliance frameworks, and governance models to ensure ethical, secure, and responsible AI integration in development workflows.
- Experience in Spring Framework/Spring Boot, ORM tools (Hibernate/JPA) or similar.
- Strong front-end development experience: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks (React/Angular).
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and cloud-native development.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases and advanced SQL.
- Experience with unit testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of secure coding practices, compliance standards, and performance optimization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with legacy system enhancement and modernization.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms such as Kafka.
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