Java Developer

JAVA OPENING - Remote
Remote WI Resident
Exempt
The manager has requested a bid limit of 1 per vendor to ensure only the top candidate from each vendor is submitted. This is a true new need.
The State of Wisconsin is looking for Java Developer IV.

Will close to submissions on 6/12/2025 at 4:00PM CST.
Top Required Skills & Years of Experience:
- 5+ years' experience with Java/J2EE
- 5+ years' experience with Spring boot
- 5+ years' experience with Angular
- 4+ years' hands on Architecture/Design experience
- 4+ years' experience with microservices
Nice to Have Skills:
- 4+ years' experience with AWS Cloud based development
- 3+ years' experience with DevSecOps Best Practices, including leveraging SonarQube
- 5+ years' experience with Automated Testing Best Practices
- 4+ years' experience with Oracle and PL/SQL stored procedure
Interview Process: Online interview
Duration: 6/30/25 with extensions possible
Remote or On-site? Candidates must be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI prior to starting the role at their own expense. This position will work mostly remote from within the State of Wisconsin. There may be a requirement to come into the office as needed, likely no more than twice per year.
Project details: The ideal candidate will play a hands-on senior technologist/lead role in modernizing State of Wisconsin, Department of Transportation web application(s). Within this modernization effort the candidate will provide technical expertise in migrating application(s) to Spring Boot, upgrading Java versions, updating presentation layer technologies, migrating applications to container hosted environments, and provide guidance in the development of a DevSecOps and CI/CD development pipeline following industry best practices.

Required Skills
5+ years' experience with Java/J2EE
5+ years' experience with Spring boot
5+ years' experience with Angular
4+ years' hands on Architecture/Design experience
4+ years' experience with microservices
Preferred Skills
4+ years' experience with AWS Cloud based development
3+ years' experience with DevSecOps Best Practices, including leveraging SonarQube
5+ years' experience with Automated Testing Best Practices
4+ years' experience with Oracle and PL/SQL stored procedure

The ideal candidate will play a hands-on senior technologist role in modernizing, enhancing, and
maintaining State of Wisconsin, Department of Transportation web application(s). Within this effort the
candidate will provide technical expertise in developing solutions in Spring Boot, upgrading Java versions,
updating presentation layer technologies, migrating applications to container hosted environments, and
provide guidance in the development of a DevSecOps, and CI/CD development pipeline following
industry best practices. The candidate will be responsible for the design, development, and support of
enterprise-wide application(s). We are looking for someone with strong hands-on development
experience in Java, SQL, PL/SQL, MVC pattern implementation (Spring), full lifecycle testing,
microservice architecture patterns, and Agile Scrum project management methodology. Strong
experience in analyzing and dealing with complex SQLs and nested queries is a MUST. Strong
candidates should also have experience with container creation and deployment, DevSecOps best
practices, and modern presentation layer technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Enhance existing application(s) with new features as well as modernizing existing application(s)
as needed.
- Solve complex technical problems
- Architect, Design, develop and implement application development solutions independently.
- Develop testing methodology and criteria and implement them on automated build processes.
- Develop solutions in Spring Boot, Java, SQL following industry best practices.
- Develop application presentation layers using modern JavaScript/TypeScript technologies such
as Angular.
- Mentor others in the team and function as Senior technologist that others including the lead can
rely on.
Required Experience:
- Java/J2EE (5+ years)
- Spring Framework (5+ years)
- Spring boot (5+ years)
- SQL experience (5+ years)
- Oracle and PL/SQL stored procedure experience (5+ years)
- Java Script (5+ years)
- Creating reports using Jasper (2+)
- Experience working with creating and troubleshooting complex nested SQL queries in a Java
based web application (5+ years)
- Hands on Architecture/Design experience (4+ years)
- Micro services (4+ years)
- API development (4+ years)
- Angular (5+ years)
- Experience working in Hybrid and Agile Methodologies (5+ years)
- Experience working with industry standard patterns for modernization (i.e. lift and shift, strangler,
etc.)
Nice to Have Experience:
- JPA (3+ years)
- Java Batch experience (4+ years)
- DevSecOps Best Practices (3+ years) including leveraging SonarQube
- Automated Testing Best Practices (5+ years)
- Technical leadership experience leading team members and moving application(s) toward a
microservices and modern looking architecture (4+ years).
- AWS Cloud based development experience (4+) years
- Experience working with Liberty, Maven, IntelliJ, Java 21
- Leveraging GitHub Co-Pilot or similar GenAI based IDE tools to accelerate software development
and testing practices
- Experience working with Box APIs