I. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

Texas Health and Human Services Commission requires the services of 1 Software Engineer 3, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of Software Engineer 3, Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Health and Human Services Commission will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

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.

The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of One Developer hereafter referred to as Worker, who meets the general qualification of Developer 3 Emerging and the specifications outlined in this document for Health & Human Services Commission - Social Services Applications team.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the HHSC. HHSC may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Workers) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by the Texas law. HHSC will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Worker(s).

Performs Front End/UI application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support for Social Services User Interface applications.

Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.

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.

Analyze UI framework, libraries for configuration & performance tuning opportunities, as required.

Develop, enhance and maintain existing and new web-based J2EE/Portal applications within HHSC's SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform using Agile methodologies.

Create technical and design documentation, as required.

Perform system analysis and problem resolution, 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.

Other duties as assigned.

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.

YearsRequired/PreferredExperience

8RequiredHands-on experience in Front End/UI development, enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications using Angular and/or similar frameworks on the J2EE application development platform

8RequiredHands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)

8RequiredHands-on UI development experience implementing Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies

8RequiredHands-on programming experience in following languages: HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular, Typescript, JSON, XML, ES5/ES6, NPM, Maven and/or other UI frameworks/libraries.

8RequiredDemonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining an enterprise-level Front End/UI application including complete ownership of the front-end stack (JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Angular and/or other UI frameworks).

8RequiredExperience implementing Client-facing applications with responsive design and development

8RequiredExperience implementing SPAs with JS or with libraries/frameworks like Angular

8RequiredExperience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

8RequiredStrong understanding and experience of fundamental programming concepts of data structures, algorithms, performance, caching and scalability issues in the context of Web based UI applications

8RequiredExperience in developing and testing application user interface for ADA/Accessibility Compliance

8RequiredExperience in implementing best practices in the areas of application design, performance, scalability and maintainability.

8RequiredExperience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Selenium

5PreferredHands-on experience with Spring Boot Java Applications

5PreferredHands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later

5PreferredHands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum)

5PreferredHands-on experience with web applications developed for Cloud platform

5PreferredHands-on experience with CI/CD methodology

5PreferredHands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms

Required Skills : Software Architecture

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills : Software Engineer

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No