Senior Java/J2EE Technologist/Lead - $75 CTC - REMOTE (Within the State of WI)

Senior Java/J2EE Technologist/Lead - $75 CTC - REMOTE (Within the State of WI)

Posted 1 day ago by Chandra Technologies, Inc.

Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote

Summary: The Senior Java/J2EE Technologist/Lead role involves modernizing web applications for the State of Wisconsin's Department of Transportation, primarily through remote work with occasional in-office collaboration. The candidate will provide technical leadership in migrating applications to Spring Boot, enhancing existing features, and implementing DevSecOps practices. Strong experience in Java, microservices, and modern presentation technologies is essential. The position requires a hands-on approach to design, development, and support of enterprise-wide applications.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Enhance existing application(s) with new features as well as modernizing existing application(s)
  • Solve complex technical problems
  • Design, develop and provide technical leadership to the modernization effort.
  • Develop testing methodology and criteria and implement them on automated build processes. Lead efforts for modernizing Java application(s) to Spring Boot following industry best practices.
  • Develop application presentation layers using modern JavaScript/TypeScript technologies such as Angular.
  • Provide technical leadership to moving application(s) toward a microservices and modern looking architecture.

Key Skills:

  • Java/J2EE (5+ years)
  • Spring Framework (5+ years)
  • Spring boot (5+ years)
  • Micro services (4+ years)
  • API development (4+ years)
  • Angular (5+ years)
  • SQL experience (5+ years)
  • Hands on Architecture/Design experience (4+ years)
  • Experience working in Hybrid and Agile Methodologies (5+ years)
  • Experience working with industry standard patterns for modernization (i.e. lift and shift, strangler, etc.)

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United States

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Job Description:

***Crop to Crop resumes are accepted

Location Requirement: Remote or on-site? Candidates must be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI prior to starting the role at their own expense. This position will work mostly remote from within the State of Wisconsin. There will be a requirement to come into the Hill farms office at least once every other week for one day (of the project team’s choosing) for sprint planning and, work collaboration purposes. In the future if situation warrants, we expect the candidate to be flexible to accommodate the business needs as it relates to working from office.

The selected candidate will play a hands-on senior technologist/lead role in modernizing State of Wisconsin, Department of Transportation web application(s). Within this modernization effort the candidate will provide technical expertise in migrating application(s) to Spring Boot, upgrading Java versions, updating presentation layer technologies, migrating applications to container hosted environments, and provide guidance in the development of a DevSecOps and CI/CD development pipeline following industry best practices. The candidate will be responsible for the design, development,
and support of enterprise-wide application(s). We are looking for someone with strong experience in Java, MVC pattern implementation (Struts, Spring), full lifecycle testing, microservice architecture patterns, and Agile Scrum project management methodology. Strong candidates should also have experience with container creation and deployment, DevSecOps best practices, and modern presentation layer technologies.

Responsibilities:

  • Enhance existing application(s) with new features as well as modernizing existing application(s)
  • Solve complex technical problems
  • Design, develop and provide technical leadership to the modernization effort.
  • Develop testing methodology and criteria and implement them on automated build processes.Lead efforts for modernizing Java application(s) to Spring Boot following industry best practices.
  • Develop application presentation layers using modern JavaScript/TypeScript technologies such as Angular.
  • Provide technical leadership to moving application(s) toward a microservices and modern looking architecture.

Required Skills:

  • Java/J2EE (5+ years)
  • Spring Framework (5+ years)
  • Spring boot (5+ years)
  • Micro services (4+ years)
  • API development (4+ years)
  • Angular (5+ years)
  • SQL experience (5+ years)
  • Hands on Architecture/Design experience (4+ years)
  • Experience working in Hybrid and Agile Methodologies (5+ years)
  • Experience working with industry standard patterns for modernization (i.e. lift and shift, strangler, etc.)

Desired Skills:

  • Java Batch experience (4+ years)
  • Oracle and PL/SQL stored procedure experience (4+ years)
  • DevSecOps Best Practices (3+ years) including leveraging SonarQube
  • Automated Testing Best Practices (5+ years)
  • AWS Cloud based development experience (4+) years
  • Experience working with Liberty, Maven, IntelliJ, Java 21
  • Leveraging GitHub Co-Pilot or similar GenAI based IDE tools to accelerate software development and testing practices
  • Experience working with Box APIs