Java Architect

Job Description

FDLE requires the services of one Applications Architect for BSE system software development and support. The Applications Architect will work under the direction of the BSE supervisor responsible for supporting the Criminal History Services section within FDLE.

As needed, the Applications Architect may work on special assignments or other BSE application software needs.

The Criminal History Services section provides criminal history information to criminal justice agencies, governmental entities, and the general public.

Fingerprint-based state and national criminal history records checks are submitted electronically and processed through the systems maintained by BSE.

The person in this position:

Is a technical expert in all phases of system development.

They must understand business, business insight and have a broader understanding of SOW 23-24-041 2 multiple business areas in order to successfully maintain, enhance, and develop systems and applications in BSE.

Is responsible for technical research of current industry trends, emerging technologies, system integration and configuration for meeting functional and nonfunctional requirements.

Is responsible for clear communication and coordination between stakeholders and IT leadership, project managers, other developers, and other implementation technicians to address various issues, resolve query issues, communicate project status, milestones, delays, challenges, risks and risk mitigation plans.

Is responsible for translating the business requirements into functional requirements and IT processes required to prepare Technical Design Document (TDD), Solution Design Document (SDD), high-level process flow diagrams, designs and requirement traceability matrices of solutions.

Is responsible for validation of system changes and perform UAT.

Is responsible to resolve issues and concerns preventing user acceptance testing sign-off.

Is responsible for integrating solutions between internal and external applications into the production environment.

Gather and analyze business requirements and prepare functional requirements, design documentation, technical specification documents to develop FDLE systems.

Provide structured, detailed analysis of business processes, requirements and documentation.

Functions as a technical consultant or researcher.

Perform technical research and evaluation of technologies, tools, databases, methods, etc.

Analyze detailed requirements and documentation.

Program and implement efficient solutions for business requirements.

Contribute on project planning, organization, implementation.

Contribute to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, WBS development.

Contribute to risk identification, tracking, analysis.

Contribute to issue management and tracking.

Effective communications management

Effective communication among project stakeholders SOW 23-24-041 3

Coordinate activities with FDLE staff required to support the project.

Aids FDLE staff in the preparation of procurement documents and evaluation of proposals and contract negotiations

Provide weekly status reports to the project manager.

Assist in user training in a train-the-trainer environment.

Meet customer expectations with the project.

Create, update, and execute test scenarios following the FDLE methodology of development testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing.

Assist the production implementation as needed.

Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience

Minimum of 5 years of experience as an Applications Architect on successful, enterprise level information technology projects

Model and apply software engineering methods and techniques to the design, definition, development, evaluation, integration, and/or support of IT solutions

Work independently or cooperatively with other software developers.

Function as a technical consultant or researcher

Perform analysis and troubleshooting of system defects and issues

Experience with business analysis to gather and document requirements

Experience creating test plans, test cases, and performance testing

Ability to code according to specifications with minimal defects

Use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software

Experience designing quality control test procedures

Use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software

Investigates, analyzes and resolves problems on software products

Handle portions of projects with minimal supervision which may include solution evaluation, data analysis, first draft written communications and client interactions

Gathers and evaluates client capabilities and needs.

Assist with technology solution architecture design and installation

Experience in programming to adhere to ADA compliance in web applications

Accountable for expertise in all phases of projects

Experience in automating data sharing processes

Experience in delivering assignments in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification, and within the approved budget

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to code in the following environments and/or using the tools:

JBOSS EAP 7.0 and higher

Java 1.8 or higher

J2EE (JSP, EJB, JPA)

Component Based Frameworks (JSF, Wicket, …)

Spring Framework SOW 23-24-041 4

AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)

JPA & Hibernate

Javascript

MS-SQL Server 2012 or higher

SQL Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.)

Oracle Databases

XML data exchanges (including xml schemas, XSLT, XSD)

XML parsers (including extensive use of SAX/DOM/STAX parsers and XPath)

Web Services

Linux

HTML

CSS