Java Developer

Java Developer IV

The State of Wisconsin is looking for a Java Developer IV. This position will work mostly remote from within the State of Wisconsin. There may be a requirement to come into the office as needed, likely no more than twice per year.

The ideal candidate will play a hands-on senior technologist/lead role in modernizing State of Wisconsin, Department of Transportation web application(s). Within this modernization effort the candidate will provide technical expertise in migrating application(s) to Spring Boot, upgrading Java versions, updating presentation layer technologies, migrating applications to container hosted environments, and provide guidance in the development of a DevSecOps and CI/CD development pipeline following industry best practices.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years' experience with Java/J2EE
• 5+ years' experience with Spring boot
• 5+ years' experience with Angular
• 4+ years' hands on Architecture/Design experience
• 4+ years' experience with microservices

Preferred Skills:

• 4+ years' experience with AWS Cloud based development
• 3+ years' experience with DevSecOps Best Practices, including leveraging SonarQube
• 5+ years' experience with Automated Testing Best Practices
• 4+ years' experience with Oracle and PL/SQL stored procedure

Responsibilities:

• Enhance existing application(s) with new features as well as modernizing existing application(s) as needed.
• Solve complex technical problems
• Architect, Design, develop and implement application development solutions independently.
• Develop testing methodology and criteria and implement them on automated build processes.
• Develop solutions in Spring Boot, Java, SQL following industry best practices.
• Develop application presentation layers using modern JavaScript/TypeScript technologies such as Angular.
• Mentor others in the team and function as Senior technologist that others including the lead can rely on.

Required Experience:

• Java/J2EE (5+ years)
• Spring Framework (5+ years)
• Spring boot (5+ years)
• SQL experience (5+ years)
• Oracle and PL/SQL stored procedure experience (5+ years)
• Java Script (5+ years)
• Creating reports using Jasper (2+)
• Experience working with creating and troubleshooting complex nested SQL queries in a Java based web application (5+ years)
• Hands on Architecture/Design experience (4+ years)
• Micro services (4+ years)
• API development (4+ years)
• Angular (5+ years)
• Experience working in Hybrid and Agile Methodologies (5+ years)
• Experience working with industry standard patterns for modernization (i.e. lift and shift, strangler, etc.)

Nice to Have Experience:

• JPA (3+ years)
• Java Batch experience (4+ years)
• DevSecOps Best Practices (3+ years) including leveraging SonarQube
• Automated Testing Best Practices (5+ years)
• Technical leadership experience leading team members and moving application(s) toward a microservices and modern looking architecture (4+ years)
• AWS Cloud based development experience (4+ years)
• Experience working with Liberty, Maven, IntelliJ, Java 21
• Leveraging GitHub Co-Pilot or similar GenAI based IDE tools to accelerate software development and testing practices
• Experience working with Box APIs