The application architect is responsible to provide technical leadership to the application development team, which includes designing, developing and supporting complex Java applications for Communicable disease and Vital records area. The resource will be involved in collaborating with business area to ensure the technical design of the application meet the business requirements. Since changes are being made to modernize and enhance the stability and functionality of the application, the resource is integral to ensure streamlining critical business processes, data integrity, SEM/SUITE compliance, and securing the applications.  The resource will also perform as application architect and provide technical guidance to the other developers in the department.  The architect will also participate in a variety of analytical assignments  for the enhancement, integration, maintenance, and implementation of projects and preparing technology roadmap for the supported applications. Not having a resource on staff will limit the technical oversight that is needed to review and ensure the technical design and code development meet the state development standards which could lead to higher maintenance cost due to design issues, errors causing data integrity and can eventually lead to incorrect information being processed and reported to federal and state agencies.

• Develop business application components using Object Oriented java/JEE technologies and design principles .
• Provide technical leadership to the application development team
• Develop software design documents and work with stakeholders for review and approval.
• Design, Develop and maintain web applications and interfaces and RESTful web services
• Collaborate with stakeholder to ensure application architecture is in alignment with business requirement         
• Write well-designed, testable code using Spring MVC, Hibernate framework for entity object mapping, JQuery/HTML5, JavaScript, HTML, XML,Angular
• Excellent knowledge in designing both logical and physical database model in Oracle and SQL server
• Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC) including experience in writing technical specifications for complex projects.
• Experience preparing technology roadmap for supported applications
• Experience tuning SQL queries, scripts and troubleshoots issues using SQL, PL/SQL scripts
• Hands on experience Integrating software components into a fully functional software system
• Extensive knowledge on source control tools such as GIT
• Experience developing with application servers Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, Openshift Container
• Experience developing, prototypes, mockup for users review and approval.
• Exposure to flowcharts, screen layouts and documentation to ensure logical flow of the system requirements
• Experience working on large agile projects.
• Experience with  Java 8, SOAP, Restful Web-Services, Spring Boot Projects, Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring Security frameworks.
• Good to have knowledge of Apache Kafka, Apache Spark and ActiveMQ broker.
• Experience or Knowledge on  creating CI/CD pipelines using Azure Devops