Job: APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Role: Senior Programmer (Expert Level Application Developer)

Location: Sacramento, CA (Hybrid 3 days onsite)

Contract Duration: 7/1/2026 6/30/2028 (up to 2 years)

Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)

Interview: In-person / teams - depends on client hiring manager

Summary:

The consultant will work with the state team as an expert level Application Developer for the System application. Responsibilities include:

Leading efforts for enhancing enterprise system(s)/sub-system(s) changes
Performing detailed analysis, functional design, and application development
Conducting code reviews, triaging, and testing activities
Supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Participating in Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions
Creating and maintaining technical documentation
Providing knowledge transfer to state personnel

Job Description

Scope of Work:

The consultant will work with the state team and undertake duties as an expert level Application Developer for the System application. The consultant will lead efforts for enhancing enterprise system(s)/sub-system(s) changes by performing detailed analysis, functional design, application development, code review, triaging and testing activities in support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

The work primarily involves expert level in Java programming using Client approved frameworks supporting waterfall and agile delivery methodologies. The consultant will participate in Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with SMEs from program and technical teams to ensure their requirement needs are met. This also includes the consultant participating in code reviews and providing guidance on best practices for programming. The work of the application developer will also include status reporting, documenting technical documents, and ensuring that all work performed complies with Client Information Technology policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.

Responsibilities:

Analysis and Design

Participate in analysis and design efforts for enhancing various enterprise system(s) and sub-systems(s).
Participates in Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with customer representatives, business analysts, developers, testers, and other technical staff to ensure the customer's needs are met.
Provide input and signoff into the business requirements document, design artifacts and requirements traceability matrix.

Implementation, Testing and support

Analyze and triage issues to determine root cause, future level of effort, and viable path forward.
Provide input into design alternatives and provide alternative solutions based on the requirements and design artifacts.
Code and conduct code walkthrough and reviews with developers and other solution architects.
Create and maintain technical artifacts
Collaborate with various IT and program area staff to triage defects and issues.
Test coding solution using approved unit, assembly and/or system test processes and procedures and support User Acceptance Test.

Knowledge Transfer (KT)

Contractor will provide knowledge transfer of reporting efforts, escalated system issues, and database changes and enhancements.
Knowledge transfer to occur via collaborative documentation, code commenting, cross training, and job shadowing.
Knowledge transfer to take place at Client via regular scheduled meetings and review of documentation.
Documentation to include best practices and lessons learned during the project.

On an ongoing basis through the end of the contract all work products and deliverables (project status reports, business process, triage incident reports with resolution, meeting minutes, test cases, test outcomes) details have to be discussed with the contract manager to ensure that all of the information is documented and placed in a file share. The contract manager will schedule knowledge transfer sessions at regular intervals to ensure that all of the work production details have been documented and the knowledge has been transferred to the state personnel.

Minimum Qualifications:

Must have a minimum of twenty (20) years of experience supporting web application running on Oracle and writing and troubleshooting SQL code.
Must have minimum of twenty (20) years of experience working with Java, J2EE and JavaScript framework.
Must have a minimum of twenty (20) years of experience using Spring with Model View Controller (MVC) Framework, Spring Batch and Spring Web Services.
Must have a minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience designing and tuning SQL for performance with Oracle
Must have a minimum of ten (10) years of experience using tools including but not limited to Jira, Bitbucket, Service Now, SQL Developer, and Eclipse IDE
Experience with design, build and deploy and/or migrate applications in the cloud (Azure or AWS)
Experience developing RESTful APIs using J2EE framework with tools including but not limited to Postman.
Experience with Governmental Retirement Benefits and Health Programs functions and processes

APPLICATION DEVELOPER

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