Programmer Senior

NYS Department of Labor (DOL) is seeking a Programmer Senior that 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 employer account financial system, including designing and developing modules that establish receivables, calculate fees and interest, apply remittances, establish and reverse refunds, and reconcile funds and other account maintenance activities
• 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.
• Guide developers in application, component, and service architectural design. Including Analyze, design, review, and document database conceptual and logical data models. Identify functionality that should be placed in services and business process'.
• 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.
• Orchestrate individual system components into end-to-end business processes as part of a comprehensive Case Management/Workflow system.
• Construct software applications using J2EE and SOA architectures.
• Develop applications using Rational Application Developer (RAD/IID) utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Develop composite applications utilizing WebSphere Integration Developer (WID), WebSphere Process Server (WPS), WebSphere Business Integration Workbench 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 (Hibernate).
• 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.

Requested Qualifications:

• 60 months designing JEE composite applications including foundational services/components using SCA - Service Component Architecture, EJBs and Web Services (SOAP and REST).
• 24 months on an agile development team in development of complex integrated JEE-based SOA systems including experience providing direction and assistance/mentoring to team members, monitoring productivity, reviewing work for quality assurance and reporting status.
• 24 months using JSF development/JavaScript
• 60 months using modern IDE's preferably Eclipse and/or IBM's Design/Development tool stack: (ie, Rational Application Developer (RAD/IID), WebSphere Message Broker/IBM Integration Bus).
• 60 months using solution design software (Examples: MS Visio). Has experience in interpreting UML diagrams, creating of Service Models, Service Classification Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams, for model-driven development in Rational Application Developer (RAD/IID).
• 24 months 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 developing complex relational database queries with particular focus on cross-component transaction management.

Work hours and location:

• Full time role with engagement length of 30 months
• Daily work hours: 7:00 am - 5:00 pm negotiable
• Physical office location: Building 12 1220 Washington Avenue
• Telecommuting options: 100% on-site when start. 50% telecommute at managers discretion

Spruce Technology, Inc. is a mid-size, award-winning (Inc 5000, SmartCEO, Entrepreneur of the Year) technology services firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Spruce provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. Spruce maintains partnerships with major technology vendors and continually develops leading-edge offerings in service areas such as digital experience, data services, application development, infrastructure, cyber security, and IT staffing.

Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.

All full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits:
Medical, dental, vision health benefits
Life Insurance and AD&D (paid by company)
401k, Flexible and Dependent Care Spending Account plans.
Paid-time Off or Paid Sick Leave (amount dependent on position level and if required by state).