Job Listing Information

Sr Groovy Developer
  • 02-May-2024 to 16-May-2024 (UTC)
  • Des Moines, IA, USA
  • Full Time
  • Long Term Contract Length
  • 40 Weekly Hours

Complete Description:

- Iowa HHS provides high quality programs and services that protect and improve the health and resiliency of individuals, families, and communities.

- The public health IT team at HHS is a fun and rewarding place to work. The team fosters growth amongst our peers. 

- The disease surveillance system for the state of Iowa is currently being replaced.

- This position will be a developer on the scrum team working alongside the vendor during development.

- They will then continue to support and enhance the system in an agile approach.

- We are looking for a self-starter who is charged with designing and coding software on an agile development team.

-  A good candidate will have a positive attitude and strong communication skills to work closely with clients to determine what they need, then use programming languages to create programs.

 

The technology responsibilities of this position are as follows:

- Must have critical thinking skills, as well as strong problem-solving abilities

- Producing clean, efficient code based on specifications

- Familiar with Groovy, SpEL & PostgreSQL

- Experience with Jasper reports would be a plus

- Testing and deploying programs and systems

- Experience in agile frameworks and popular coding languages such as, Jira, GITHUB and CI/CD

- Integrate software components and third-party programs

- Gather and evaluate user feedback to recommend and execute improvements

- Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail

- Resourcefulness and troubleshooting skills

- Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping

 

Daily breakdown

- 20% Meetings

- 80% Development and documentation

 

Fill the skill matrix below:

Skill

Required/Desired

Amount

Candidate's No. of years of experience

Experience in Groovy, SpEL & PostgreSQL

Required

7

 

Experience in agile frameworks and popular coding languages such as, Jira, GITHUB and CI/CD

Required

3

 

Must have critical thinking skills, as well as strong problem-solving abilities.

Required

 

 

Experience producing Clean, efficient code based on specifications..

Required

5

 

Experience with Jasper reports

Highly desired

 

 

Experience with Testing and deploying programs and systems.

Required

5

 

Experience with Integrating software components and third-party programs

Required

5

 

Ability to Gather and evaluate user feedback to recommend and execute improvements.

Required

5

 

Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

Required

 

 

Excellent communication skills and attention to detail

Required

5

 

Resourcefulness and troubleshooting skills

Required

 

 

Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping

Required

5