HBITS 07-14793 Software Architect Expert

Project/Program:
NYS Tax Modernization

This position will be in support of the NYS Tax Modernization Program. This program will encompass multiple projects to modernize legacy systems within the NYS Department of Taxation and Finance which is responsible for billions in state revenue. Some of the major areas under modernization include:
Collections and Accounts Receivable
Taxpayer Accounting
Real Property Tax Processing

Day-to-Day Tasks:
The selected candidate will be responsible for all phases of the System Development Life Cycle for complex projects. The responsibilities will include both new development as well as maintenance tasks. Specific tasks will include:
Guiding the technical design for modernization of legacy systems.
Coordinating the technical solutions among various technical support groups.
Making changes in multiple systems in real time to enable changes requested by user group.
Implementing technical solutions.
Developing tax processing system components and maintaining existing processing systems.
Supporting production tasks including analysis of issue proposing and implementing solutions for defect resolution.
Coordinating with development team on development activities and integration testing.
Developing technical design documents and program specifications.
Guiding requirements gathering sessions.
Guiding the analysis of requirements and system design work.
Coding and performing unit and integration tests of programming assignments.
Writing and tuning SQL
Supporting user testing efforts.
Performance tune new and existing applications.
Mentoring less experienced staff.

Mandatory Qualification:
Software Architect -
Makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards including software coding standards tools and platforms. Designs multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of a large scale software system.

Expert -
84 Months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications:
- 84 months of experience with J2EE technologies including JDBC JSP and XML.
- 84 months of experience developing building and testing Java EE applications using modern IDEs such as Eclipse Netbeans or IntelliJ.
- 84 months of experience using J2EE frameworks such as Spring or struts and Application Servers such as Tomcat JBoss Websphere or Weblogic.
- 84 months of experience writing SQL statements for relational databases.
- 84 months of experience in system analysis and design of multi-tiered transactional systems.
- 60 months of experience in performance tuning applications interacting with databases.
- 60 months of experience in messaging technologies such as MQ JMS Kafka.

We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of race color sex gender identity gender expression religion age national origin citizenship disability medical condition family care status marital status domestic partner status sexual orientation genetic information military/veteran status or any other protected basis.