Senior Software Engineer (Programmer Analyst)

Title: Senior Software Engineer (Programmer Analyst)

Location: Richmond, VA

*Local candidates strongly preferred

*ALL candidates MUST be able to attend a personal interview (NO phone interviews, NO Skype, NO exceptions), if requested.

*Contract to be extended beyond 6/30/18, possibly for 1-2 years

*This Req is for a very senior resource, no heads-down coders. Candidate must have excellent communication and presentation skills, as well.

The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to technically lead web-based development projects from analysis and design through production implementation and support. Specific duties include designing and developing new software products or major enhancements to existing software; integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software with existing agency-developed applications through APIs and web services; designing and executing unit tests; monitoring results of static code analysis in Sonar Qube and resolving issues as applicable; creating and implementing technical design solutions and documentation; identifying opportunities for application design improvement and following industry-standard software development processes.

The successful candidate must be able to clearly communicate, orally and in writing, with business users and other senior IT staff is required.

Additional duties include collaborating with team members, product owners and BSA's; and providing coaching and mentoring to less experienced team members in an Agile environment.

Qualified applicants should have significant experience with full software development life cycles and experience developing business applications in an object-oriented environment.

Strong knowledge of Java and related frameworks and technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, JPA, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML and CSS is required.

Working knowledge of design and development of Java and web based applications, and web services. Experience with tools such as Subversion, Linux, Sonatype Nexus, Jenkins, and SonarQube is preferred. .NET (C# and ASP.NET) exposure, experience with Oracle databases,

Weblogic or similar Java application servers and penetration testing skills are pluses.

The demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and work independently or as a member of a team is required, along with the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or comparable work experience is preferred as well as experience working with a variety of business divisions.