Technical Specialist

Position : IA-DOM-IWD-TS2-Technical Specialist (740654

Location : 1000 E GRAND AVE, Des Moines IA - Hybrid

Contract Position

In Person Only

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Iowa Workforce Development is a state agency committed to providing unemployment services for individual job seekers. The IT department of IWD develops and maintains applications that serve our customers.

We are looking for a Technical Specialist with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

The individual will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies.

The project aims to modernize IWD's Tax system by re-architecting its components to current industry-leading architecture and frameworks.

All the application layers are being modernized, including the front end, to be more responsive and dynamic, which would benefit both the staff and end-users of the agency while positioning the agency for future technological improvements.

Responsibilities :

• Contribute to the architecture, design, and coding of enterprise-level web-based solutions
• Architect complete front-end stack of projects using TypeScript with Angular and HTML / CSS
• Create reference architectures and design patterns
• Implement UI component design focused on reusability, scalability, extensibility, and maintainability
• Follow the agency's standards and programming practices
• Responsible for writing high-quality code with test coverage
• Mentor other developers through code walkthrough and parallel programming
• Interface with a REST-based backend, building a cloud-based platform
• Develop APIs through Java / JEE technologies and Spring framework
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Contribute to a highly collaborative team of developers
• Support continuous improvement by investigating technology alternatives and presenting these for architectural review

Must have's

• Proven hands-on full-stack software development experience
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• 5+ years of experience developing dynamic, highly interactive, responsive user interfaces for the web
• Ability to build enterprise-level self-contained, reusable, and testable components
• Strong hands-on development with Single Page Applications
• Strong experience in HTML, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS
• Experience in building JavaScript MV-VM / MVC frameworks
• Experience in JS testing frameworks like Jasmine or KarmaExperience with OAuth security tokens (JWT)
• Experience developing and consuming SOAP and RESTful web services utilizing XML and / or JSON with binding libraries like JAXB, Jackson, Gson, etc.
• Implement and adhere to code quality standards with tools like ESLint, FindBugs, SONAR, etc.
• Experience in working in teams using Agile methodologies
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Spring MVC)
• Experience in developing Spring Boot applications is an advantage
• Experience with test-driven development and testing framework like JUnit, Mockito is an advantage
• Experience with Okta is an advantage
• Experience working in Microservices architecture is an advantage

Requirements :

• Angular 2+ 5years experience
• Typescript 5years experience
• JSON - 5years experience
• HTML, CSS3 - 5years experience
• Grunt / Gulp / Webpack 5years experience
• Jasmine / Karma 5years experience
• Java / JEE 5years experience
• SOAP and REST API's - 5years experience
• Git 5years experience
• NodeJS 5years experience
• Spring Boot 5years experience
• Hibernate, EclipseLink 5years experience
• Junit, TestNG 5years experience
• Mockito, Cucumber 5years experience
• Maven 5years experience
• SVN 5years experience
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