Software Architect

This role involves designing and implementing software solutions and ensuring the effective integration of new and current technologies to fulfill business needs for New York State., * Standards Implementation: Implement Integrated Justice Portal standards, including UI standards, development methodologies, and coding/style guides.

• Infrastructure Liaison: Act as the primary technical liaison with infrastructure teams to resolve problems and implement solutions impacting application performance.
• Infrastructure Coordination: Work with the Infrastructure team on performance test planning, failover planning, endurance testing, and deployment planning/testing.
• Technical Design & Code Review: Provide analysis, design, development, and code review of enterprise applications using JAVA/JEE, JSF, XML, XSLT, and IBM Portal/WebSphere software.
• Development Oversight: Perform oversight of development activities, including data access, data structures, logical database models, and implementation.
• Documentation: Prepare and review technical documentation such as designs and schemas.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a team of developers.
• Knowledge Transfer: Execute the Knowledge Transfer Project plan, which includes cross-training State staff on enhancements or development projects.

Candidates must meet the Senior level criteria (60-84 months of experience) and possess the following technical background:

• Architecture & Design: 72 months of experience designing and implementing highly available and scalable multitier applications using Object-Oriented or Service-Oriented Architecture, involving JEE Design Patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Java/J2EE Development: 60 months of experience developing applications with JDK 1.8 or higher using J2EE technologies including EJB, JDBC, JMS, MQ, JAXB, Rest, and JAXWS.
• Persistence Frameworks: 60 months of experience developing applications using JPA and/or Hibernate with Oracle or SQL Server databases.
• Application Servers: 60 months of experience developing applications in IBM WebSphere Application Servers 7.0 or higher and IBM WebSphere Portal Servers 7.0 or higher.
• Web Frameworks: 60 months of experience developing applications using JSF and JSP.