Job Description

Multiple Program Areas (UI, DEWS) - This request is in support of the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) service-oriented architecture (SOA) critical SOA applications and services that span across multiple program areas. 

Day-to-Day Tasks:
The consultant will guide an agile development team and be responsible for Graphical User Interface (GUI) design and development activities. The activities include, but are not limited to:
• Guide an agile development team working on a complex training provider project and other employment services applications.
• Guide a team of developers in the analysis, design, and development of integrated solutions for the project.
• Assist the project development team to establish and document standards and patterns for ‘best practices’ of integration technologies.
• Mentor state staff developers in advanced programming techniques and skills.
• Create and review sequence and activity diagrams.
• Define and validate service WSDLs and XSDs.
• Develop business process models.
• Analyze, design, and develop services and business processes from business requirements using a SOA approach.
• Construct software applications using J2EE and SOA architectures.
• Develop applications using Rational Application Developer (RAD) utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Develop composite applications utilizing IBM Integration Developer (IID), IBM Business Prosses Manager (BPM), IBM Integration toolkit and/or WebSphere MQ Workflow.
• Perform composite application integration using EJB, SCA, JMS, and Web Services over an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
• Analyze and develop rule sets for processes utilizing WODM.
• Develop and test data access using Object Relation Mapping frameworks (JPA).
• Develop complex relational database queries using ANSI standard SQL and PLS/SQL to be used with Oracle and DB2 databases giving special consideration to transaction management.
• Perform database transaction management analysis, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Perform unit and integration testing and resolve defects.
• Create and review technical documents for all aspects of the software development life cycle.
• Provide new technology evaluations resulting from research, proof of concept (POC), and proof of technology (POT) work.

Mandatory Qualifications:
- Programmer: Creates computer software. May specialize in one area of computer software or may write code for many kinds of software.
- Senior: 60 - 84 months: Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others. May have an advanced education.

Requested Qualifications:
- 60 months experience designing JEE composite applications including foundational services/components using SCA – Service Component Architecture, EJBs and Web Services (SOAP and REST).
- 24 months experience guiding an agile development team in development of complex integrated JEE-based SOA systems. (For example: planning and managing work, providing direction and assistance/mentoring to team members, monitoring productivity, reviewing work for quality assurance and reporting status.)
- 60 months experience using JSF development/JavaScript
- 60 months experience using IBM’s Design/Development tool stack: Rational Software Architect (RSA) for generation of Service Models, Service Classification Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams for model driven development in Rational Application Developer (RAD/IID).
- 24 months experience using IBM’s ESD tool stack: Business Process design/development tools such as WebSphere Business Modeler (WBM), WebSphere Process Server (WPS)/Business Process Manager (BPM) and/or WebSphere Integration Developer (WID). This includes using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
- 60 months experience developing complex relational database queries with cross-component transaction management.