Technical Specialist

Position: IA-DOM-IWD-TS2-Technical Specialist (740654 Location: 1000 E GRAND AVE, Des Moines IA - Hybrid Contract Position In Person OnlyPROVIDE CANDIDATES FULL PHYSICAL ADDRESS where DOM DoIT Background Check form and Fingerprint cards are to be mailed Iowa Workforce Development is a state agency committed to providing unemployment services for individual job seekers. The IT department of IWD develops and maintains applications that serve our customers. We are looking for a Technical Specialist with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. The individual will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies. The project aims to modernize IWD's Tax system by re-architecting its components to current industry-leading architecture and frameworks. All the application layers are being modernized, including the front end, to be more responsive and dynamic, which would benefit both the staff and end-users of the agency while positioning the agency for future technological improvements. Responsibilities: •Contribute to the architecture, design, and coding of enterprise-level web-based solutions •Architect complete front-end stack of projects using TypeScript with Angular and HTML/CSS •Create reference architectures and design patterns •Implement UI component design focused on reusability, scalability, extensibility, and maintainability •Follow the agency's standards and programming practices •Responsible for writing high-quality code with test coverage •Mentor other developers through code walkthrough and parallel programming •Interface with a REST-based backend, building a cloud-based platform •Develop APIs through Java/JEE technologies and Spring framework •Prepare and produce releases of software components •Contribute to a highly collaborative team of developers •Support continuous improvement by investigating technology alternatives and presenting these for architectural reviewMust have's•Proven hands-on full-stack software development experience •Hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms •5+ years of experience developing dynamic, highly interactive, responsive user interfaces for the web •Ability to build enterprise-level self-contained, reusable, and testable components •Strong hands-on development with Single Page Applications •Strong experience in HTML, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS •Experience in building JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks •Experience in JS testing frameworks like Jasmine or KarmaExperience with OAuth security tokens (JWT) •Experience developing and consuming SOAP and RESTful web services utilizing XML and/or JSON with binding libraries like JAXB, Jackson, Gson, etc. •Implement and adhere to code quality standards with tools like ESLint, FindBugs, SONAR, etc. •Experience in working in teams using Agile methodologies •Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Spring MVC) •Experience in developing Spring Boot applications is an advantage •Experience with test-driven development and testing framework like JUnit, Mockito is an advantage •Experience with Okta is an advantage •Experience working in Microservices architecture is an advantage Requirements:•Angular 2+ ~ 5years experience •Typescript 5years experience •JSON - 5years experience •HTML, CSS3 - 5years experience •Grunt/Gulp/Webpack 5years experience •Jasmine/Karma 5years experience •Java/JEE 5years experience •SOAP and REST API's - 5years experience •Git 5years experience •NodeJS 5years experience •Spring Boot 5years experience •Hibernate, EclipseLink 5years experience •Junit, TestNG 5years experience •Mockito, Cucumber 5years experience •Maven 5years experience •SVN 5years experience