Short Description:
The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Bureau of Laboratories (BoL) has replaced its existing lab accreditation system and needs a high level Java architect/developer to support, enhance, and upgrade this system.
Complete Description:
The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Bureau of Laboratories (BoL) has replaced its existing lab accreditation system with a system called Talisman. Originally, the Minnesota Department of Health developed a lab accreditation system called ELDO and provided the system and source code to BoL. Over the last three years, the BoL has customized the Minnesota’s system, tailoring it to meet BoL’s specific requirements. DEP requests the services of a highly skilled Java architect/developer to continue to support, enhance, and upgrade this system.
The scope of this effort includes the following.
1. Examine and analyze documentation provided by previous contractors regarding PHASE 1 deliverables, then complete and implement all of the deliverables as requested by BoL staff. The full scope of each of these tasks has not been determined
2. Continue to evaluate the application from a business standpoint and identify the effort involved to customize the application to meet BoL’s business needs, and modify/customize the application to address those needs.
3. Analyze, Design, Code/Implement, Test and Deploy the changes necessary to meet the changes outlined by the previous contractor under PHASE 2 Deliverables. These currently include, but are not limited to the following:
a. Proficiency Test Tracking and Evaluation
b. Other work as determined
4. Continue to evaluate the application from a technical standpoint (code review, framework/architecture evaluation, general technical assessment) and work with DEP’s Bureau of Information Technology (BIT) to identify any necessary changes for performance issues, ease of maintenance, ease of workflow and processing, etc.
This resource will primarily work with BoL staff. The individual must possess good analytical skills and business skills to quickly learn BoL’s lab accreditation business in order to maintain the software product for BoL’s use. The individual will help BoL staff identify where the system does not meet its business needs and then provide solutions. Since the individual will be working with program area staff directly, he or she must have good people and communication skills. This individual must be able to effectively communicate to staff members who may not be information technology literate.
The software application is a Java-based web application. It uses JBoss Seam 2.x as the Java Web framework with Java Persistence API (JPA)/Hibernate as its persistence layer. Minnesota has implemented its system using a PostgreSQL database for the data repository. DEP modified the application to use an Oracle database. Therefore, the system must continue to function with Oracle.
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Experience architecting and developing web applications using Java-based frameworks with a strong knowledge of Java 1.5 EE, JDK 1.6 and later
Required
5
Years
Experience using a an Integrated Development Tool such as Eclipse
Required
3
Years
Web Service Development via top-down and bottom-up approaches, as well as consuming web services
Desired
2
Years
Knowledge of XML, XSL/XSLT, XSD, DOM, SAX, Stax, JAXP
Desired
2
Years
Experience developing web applications using the JBoss SEAM Framework (Seam 2.2.0.GA using POJOs)
Desired
2
Years
Experience using JPA/EJB with Hibernate 3.x+ (or others) as a persistence provider
Required
3
Years
Experience with JavaServer Faces (JSF) 1.2 (or newer), and Facelets, RichFaces for JavaEE5 and JavaEE6 view technologies
Required
3
Years
Experience with Java Build tools such as Maven and Ant
Required
2
Years
Experience w/web server/application server setup, configuration and deployment of a Java application on Tomcat
Required
2
Years
Experience with other application servers such jBoss and Oracle WebLogic
Desired
2
Years
Experience developing applications against Oracle 11gR2 databases
Required
2
Years
Ability to write SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) scripts to create and manage Oracle database schema objects (tables, views, indexes, constraints,
Required
2
Years
Experience using SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) to query and perform insert, update and delete activities in an Oracle database
Required
3
Years
Good people skills and be able to effectively communicate business requirements with the BoL staff as well as technical requirements with BIT staff
Required
THREE professional references MUST be provided or your candidate will not be considered for the position. Please include name, title, email and phone number for each reference.