Software Developer - Expert

Provide a short description of the Position: Act as Expert Programmer/Developer working NYS Department of Information Technology


Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate: • Interact with Agency/business subject matter experts to understand business needs/requirements, Vendors of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products, and IT teams to determine and design application and system requirements. • Participate in the entire Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) including debugging and configuring solution. • Design and document all components of approved application solutions including system integrations. • Write clean, testable code • Develop JAVA applications including perform system testing and development of testing plans. • Review and refactor code including performing code reviews and suggest changes that will best fit the Agency/business needs. • Deploy fully functional applications. • Use GitLab as Source Code repository • Assist and verify design of solution and production of all design phase deliverables. • Manage build phase and quality assure code to ensure fulfilling requirements and adhering to application architecture. • Resolve difficult design and development issues. • Identify bugs when developers are not able to do so. • Identify installation solutions for new application • Determine the requirements for new application • Publish and/or present design reports • Identify areas for improvement in current systems • Coordinate with business, vendor and IT team members to reach project milestones and deadlines • Create systems to keep data secure • Write clean, testable code using advanced analytical functions. • Test and debug including, but not limited to: perform system testing and development of testing plans. • Review and refactor code including, but not limited to: performance tuning of existing code, code reviews, and suggest changes that will best fit the Agency/business needs. • Use a ticketing system to track and manage incidents, service requests, problems, changes, and release/deployment.