Enterprise Application Integration Engineer

Enterprise Application Integration Engineer

Job Description

Client requires the services of one Enterprise Application Integration Engineer for BSE software development and maintenance initiatives. The Enterprise Application Integration Engineer will work under the direction of the BSE supervisor responsible for supporting the Enforcement and Investigative Support office within client. As needed, the Enterprise Application Integration Engineer will work on special assignments or other BSE application software needs. The Enforcement & Investigative Support office is responsible for the Sexual Offender / Predator Registry. The registry is legislatively required and must be maintained as a central repository for the state by client. Through the Public Safety Information Act of 1997, Florida became the first state to list its Registry of sexual predators and offenders on the Internet and to make the public safety information it contained also available through a 24-hour/7-day hotline. This Act allowed client to give citizens access to information and enhance their ability to protect themselves and their families against known sexual offenders and predators. The SOPS computer application is critical for the automation of collecting the information for the Registry and then making it available to the public.

The person in this position:
Is a technical expert in all phases of system development. They must understand business, business insight and have a broad understanding of multiple business areas in order to successfully maintain, enhance, and develop systems and applications in BSE.
Is responsible for technical research of current industry trends, emerging technologies, system integration and configuration for meeting functional and nonfunctional requirements.
Is responsible for clear communication and coordination between stakeholders and IT leadership, project managers, other developers, and other implementation technicians to address various issues, resolve queries, communicate project status, milestones, delays, challenges, risks and risk mitigation plans.
Will work on multiple assignments and projects to identify business needs and propose solutions.
Will be an expert using client’s existing infrastructure and instrumental in recommending technologies for client’s future strategic modernization efforts.
Will analyze customer needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of the best design within time and cost constraints. Technical solutions will operate efficiently within the infrastructure and performance metrics. Solutions will be highly reliable.
Will deliver scalable, extensible, and service oriented solutions which adhere to client policies and FL Digital Services rules for applications written in-house or selected for procurement.

Enterprise Application Integration Engineer responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following:
Gather and analyze business requirements and prepare functional requirements, design documentation, technical specification documents to develop client 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 client staff required to support the project
Aids client 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
Customer expectations met with project
Create, update, and execute test case scenarios following the client methodology of development testing, system testing, and User Acceptance testing
Assist with the production implementation as needed
Ensures that proposed system architecture design, software and hardware solutions are optimal for the client environment to meet the requirements
Provides integrated solution alternatives aimed to modernize, consolidate and coordinate between independently designed and complex applications within client
Assist in developing strategies to efficiently reuse existing application components to reduce maintenance coding costs where possible
Participate in architecture design and software product evaluations in build vs. buy recommendations
Mentors junior technical staff

Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Enterprise Application Integration Engineer 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
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
Assists with technology solution architecture design and installation
Experience in programming to adhere to ADA compliance in web applications
Experience in delivering projects 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 8.0 and higher
J2EE (JSP, EJB, JPA)
Java Frameworks like JSF or similar
Javascript
MS SQL Server 2012 or higher
Oracle 12c or higher
Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.
Web services
XML
Linux
HTML
CSS
JSON
Geo-mapping components and services
GIT
Experience in coding to meeting ADA Compliance requirements
Experience in applying software engineering methods and techniques to the design, definition, development, evaluation, integration, and/or support of IT solutions
Experience in mobile application development and concepts
Experience in integration of multiple systems or applications
Experience automating data sharing processes

Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or other related field or equivalent work experience
MS-Project
MS-Visio
Eclipse (IDE)
PrimeFaces
Jasper Reports
Alfresco
NEIM XML Standard
SMTP
JIRA
Address standardizations tools

Notes:

Contractor staff is expected to work a forty (40) hour work week. The duty hours will be set by client. Work hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on a Monday through Friday standard schedule. Contractors are expected to take a minimum of thirty minutes (to a
60-minute maximum) lunch break on a daily basis.

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.