Senior IBM Portal Developer (RQ03528)

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AMANST Inc. is looking for Senior IBM Portal Developer for a contract opportunity with Ontario Government.

Estimated Business Days: 239 days

Must Haves

• 10+ years of IBM portal development experience
• 10+ years of J2EE development
• HTML5
• Extensive experience coding for mobile devices
• AODA Compliancy
• Experience with JAWS, WAI-ARIA, HTML 5, Hi Sheriff
• S2i portal experience

Nice to have

• Public Sector Experience

Responsibilities:

Required to translate technical systems specifications into working, tested applications. This includes:

• developing detailed programming specifications
• writing and/or generating code
• compiling data-driven programs, maintaining, and conducting unit tests
• Resolves and troubleshoots technical problems which arise during the use and operation of software packages, including technical assistance in implementation, conversion and migrations

General Skills:

• Experience in programming and analysis; specialized software package support at the specified experience level
• Ability to collaborate with IT Professionals throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience in structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
• Experience in design, code, test, debug and document applications
• Experience in the use of object and/or third generation language development tools
• Experience in one or more programming languages
• Experience in application design, latest design patters, deployment and troubleshooting
• Experience with relational and hierarchical database technologies
• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages using query languages
• Experience with one or more communications protocols
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications
• Experience eliciting and documenting information from diverse business area stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and experience with programming Internet-ready applications
• Knowledge and experience in rapid application development (RAD) methodologies
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Experience with middleware and gateways
• Experience reviewing, analyzing, and modifying product installation scripts including encoding, testing, debugging
• Ability to provide post-implementation support and resolve any post-implementation technical issues
• Experience conducting design walkthrough sessions with project team
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability to provide user and system documentation as required

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

The consultant must have the following number of years’ experience with the tools and/or products:

• Java – 10+
• Oracle 12C or higher – 10+
• Angular v7+ - 5+
• Javascript - 10+
• Typescript - 5+
• HTML 5.0, CSS - 5+
• Node such as NPM - 5+
• RXJS - 5+
• Spring Framework (MVC, Security, JPA, Boot)
• WebSphere v8.5 or higher – 5+
• IBM Rational Software Architecture – 3+
• Bitbucket – 3+
• Experience with AODA/WCAG 2.0 AA a must
• Experience with Responsive Web application development
• The consultant who have any of these are a plus :
• REST API
• Hibernate/JPA
• Maven
• Knowledge of security gateways and protocols (JWT, Oauth2.0, SSL Certificates)
• Solid Understanding of Agile
• Object Oriented coding practices, including design patterns knowledge, refactoring, clean code.
• Knowledge of major architectures style (message oriented, reactive, event based)
• Rest API design and implementation (load balancing, discovery, resiliency)

Development experience: 25%

• 10+ years’ experience in the use of J2EE development tools: WebSphere Application Development environment, utilizing tools such as RSA or Eclipse etc.
• 10+ IBM Websphere portal development experience.
• 10+ years’ experience Spring Framework, IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x, JSP
• 10+ UID development, Angular, CSS, Agile paradigm, usage of RSA
• 10+ Java development experience
• 10+ Database experience: Oracle
• Extensive experience with IBM Urban Code tools

UI/UX experience: 25%

• 5+ years of extensive hands-on experience with CSS
• Extensive experience with responsive development and HTML5 (must have)
• Extensive experience coding for mobile devices (must have)

AODA experience: 25%

• 10+ years of experience with developing J2EE application in compliance with PCI and WCAG 2.0 Standards, and bringing applications to AODA Compliancy (must have)
• Experience with JAWS, WAI-ARIA, HTML 5, Hi Sheriff (must have)

S2i portal experience: 25%

• Previous experience with developing and supporting Driver, Vehicle and Health services in ServiceOntario web portal.
• Experience with Canada Post Address module, IBM Web Content Management and Government Payment Gateway (must have).

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday