Hybrid (Must live in Austin TX area)

I. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.

As part of HHSC IT Applications – Social Services Applications initiatives, the worker will perform the following activities to accomplish the following goals:

• Performs application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support for State Portal, Workflow Management, Eligibility Web Services, Family Violence Program, Enterprise Document Services, Enterprise Content Management, Document Center, Call Center Inquiry, and other Social Services applications.
• Develop, enhance and maintain existing and new web-based J2EE/Portal applications within HHSC’s SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform using Agile methodologies.
• As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing and deployment of new application components, as required.
• Work with other teams as necessary to accomplish goals.
• Create technical and design documentation, as required.
• Perform system analysis and problem resolution, as required.
• Analyze software for configuration & performance tuning opportunities, as required.
• Develop and maintain data and process models, as required.
• Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error.
• Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts.
• Participate in program design, coding and test walk-through meetings to provide input regarding technical standards and customer requirements.
• Provide application support (defect repair, maintenance, and production operations support) for web-based Java applications in an SOA platform. Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities. Develop and test application code to resolve defects and improve application reliability and performance

Additional Requirements:

-Strong oral and written communication skills.

-Strong understanding and experience of fundamental programming concepts of data structures, algorithms, performance, caching and scalability issues in the context of Web based UI applications.

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or management information systems is required.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

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Years

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Required/Preferred

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Experience

8

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Required

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Hands-on experience in Server-side/Web Services development, enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications on the J2EE application development platform

8

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Required

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Hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)

8

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Required

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Hands-on development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server, Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies

8

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Required

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Hands-on programming experience using Java, J2EE, REST/SOAP, HTML5, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular, Typescript, Spring, JSON, XML, JWT, NPM, Maven, OpenAPI v3, OAuth, Postman, ReadyAPI, Mulesoft and/or similar technologies.

8

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Required

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Experience implementing REST services supporting client-facing applications- Experience implementing REST services security using JWT, OAuth, and other related technologies / standards

8

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Required

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Experience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components - Demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining an enterprise-level web services including complete ownership of the services stack.

3

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Preferred

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Hands-on experience with JBoss or IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later

3

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Preferred

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Hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum)

3

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Preferred

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Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodologies and containerized application deployments

3

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Preferred

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Hands-on experience with web applications developed for Cloud platforms

3

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Preferred

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Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Selenium

Note : Expected Start Date 01/19/2026 and Expected End Date 08/31/2026. May be renewed up to 3 years.

Hybrid - On Site and Telework. Program will only allow candidates who are LOCAL TO THE AUSTIN AREA (Within 50-mile radius).

Position will be 3 days remote with 2 days (Mondays, Thursdays) required to be onsite.

Normal business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM , excluding State holidays when the agency is closed. The worker may be required to work outside the normal business hours on weekends, evenings and holidays, as requested.