IBM DataPower/BAW Consultant

DirectClient: Texas Health and Human Services Commission(HHSC)
Solicitation#529501161
Title: IBM DataPower/BAW Consultant
Location: 1609 Centre Cr Dr., Austin, Texas 78754
Duration: Until 8/31/2025 with possible extension
Last date for submission: September 27, 2024 (2.00 PM-CST)

Important Note: Position will be remote. Candidates must relocate to Texas before the start date.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
As part of HHSC IT Applications Social Services Applications initiatives, the worker will perform the following activities to accomplish the following goals:
Performs application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support for, Eligibility Web Services, EWS business processes, EWS batch, ESB, and other Social Services applications.
Develop, enhance, and maintain existing and new applications within HHSC s SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform using Agile methodologies.
As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing and deployment of new application components, as required.
Work with other teams as necessary to accomplish goals.
Create technical and design documentation, as required.
Perform system analysis and problem resolution, as required.
Analyze software for configuration & performance tuning opportunities, as required.
Develop and maintain data and process models, as required.
Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error.
Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts.
Participate in program design, coding, and test walk-through meetings to provide input regarding technical standards and customer requirements.
Provide application support (defect repair, maintenance, and production operations support) for web-based Java applications in an SOA platform. Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities. Develop and test application code to resolve defects and improve application reliability and performance.
Other duties as assigned.

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Years Required/Preferred Experience
8 Required Hands-on experience in development, enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications on the J2EE application development platform
8 Required Hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)
8 Required Hands-on development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server, Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies
8 Required Hands-on programming experience in following languages: Java, J2EE, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular, Typescript, Spring, Java Server Pages, JSON, XML, ES5/ES6, NPM, Maven and/or other UI frameworks/libraries.
8 Required Experience implementing spring boot REST API applications
8 Required Experience implementing business processes in IBM BPEL or equivalent methodology
8 Required Experience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
8 Required Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Selenium
8 Required Experience developing workflows, transformations in ESB layer e.g .IBM Datapower
8 Required Experience in implementing best practices in the areas of application design, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
5 Preferred Hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later
5 Preferred Hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum)
5 Preferred Hands-on experience with web applications developed for Cloud platform
5 Preferred Hands on experience with IBM BAW, Datapower
5 Preferred Hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms

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