Application Architect

Job Title: Application Architect (Java)
Job Location: Tallahassee, FL (on-site)
Job Duration: 12-month contract
Job Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyze business requirements and prepare functional requirements, design documentation, technical specification documents to develop systems.
• Provide structured, detailed analysis of business processes, requirements and documentation.
• Functions as a technical consultant or researcher.
• Perform technical research and evaluation of technologies, tools, databases, methods, etc.
• Analyze detailed requirements and documentation.
• Program and implement efficient solutions for business requirements.
• Contribute on project planning, organization, implementation.
• Contribute to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, WBS development.
• Contribute to risk identification, tracking, analysis.
• Contribute to issue management and tracking.
• Effective communications management.
• Effective communication among project stakeholders

• Coordinate activities with FDLE staff required to support the project.
• Aids staff in the preparation of procurement documents and evaluation of proposals and contract negotiations.
• Provide weekly status reports to the project manager.
• Assist in user training in a train-the-trainer environment.
• Meet customer expectations with the project.
• Create, update, and execute test scenarios following the methodology of development testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Assist the production implementation as needed.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as an Applications Architect on successful, enterprise level information technology projects.
• Model and apply software engineering methods and techniques to the design, definition, development, evaluation, integration, and/or support of IT solutions.
• Work independently or cooperatively with other software developers.
• Function as a technical consultant or researcher.
• Perform analysis and troubleshooting of system defects and issues.
• Experience with business analysis to gather and document requirements.
• Experience creating test plans, test cases, and performance testing.
• Ability to code according to specifications with minimal defects.
• Use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software.
• Experience designing quality control test procedures.
• Use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software.
• Investigates, analyzes and resolves problems on software products.
• Handle portions of projects with minimal supervision which may include solution evaluation, data analysis, first draft written communications and client interactions.
• Gathers and evaluates client capabilities and needs.
• Assist with technology solution architecture design and installation.
• Experience in programming to adhere to ADA compliance in web applications.
• Accountable for expertise in all phases of projects.
• Experience in automating data sharing processes.
• Experience in delivering assignments in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification, and within the approved budget.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to code in the following environments and/or using the tools:

• JBOSS EAP 7.0 and higher
• Java 1.8 or higher
• J2EE (JSP, EJB, JPA)
• Component Based Frameworks (JSF, Wicket, )
• Spring Framework
• AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)
• JPA & Hibernate
• Javascript
• MS-SQL Server 2012 or higher
• SQL Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.)
• Oracle Databases
• XML data exchanges (including xml schemas, XSLT, XSD)
• XML parsers (including extensive use of SAX/DOM/STAX parsers and XPath)
• Web Services
• Linux
• HTML
• CSS

Preferred Experience:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
• National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) standard
• Junit
• JavaScript Frameworks (Angular)
• MS-Project
• MS-Visio
• Eclipse (IDE)
• PrimeFaces
• JasperReports
• Alfresco