Sr Java Application Developer

JPC Partners; Lower Providence Township (PA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPC Partners is seeking a Senior Java Application Developer to understand business requirements and deliver enhancements, data integrations, and supported systems with high quality. The role involves full lifecycle development, documentation, and working within cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable solutions.

The successful candidate will leverage Java frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, JSF, PrimeFaces, JPA) and SQL, participate in code reviews, and support 24x7 environments as needed

Qualifications

• Strong Java enterprise development experience across business areas.
• Expert knowledge of Java technologies (Spring, JSF, JPA, Hibernate) and SQL.
• Associates or Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical systems based on business requirements and ensure high-quality delivery.
• Create and maintain design and technical documentation including test plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Scrum teams to plan, develop, test and deploy enhancements.
• Develop, debug and test applications, and support production incidents as needed.
• Lead or participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices.

Skills

Java

Spring

Hibernate

JSF

JPA

SQL

Scrum

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Education

Associate or Bachelor’s degree

Tools

PrimeFaces

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Job description

JPC Partners is looking for a Senior Java Application Developer that will be responsible for understanding the requirements of the business units and supporting the project and support teams by developing technical systems based on those requirements. Specifically, this position is responsible for delivering application enhancements, implementing data integrations and ensuring application and data integration frameworks are maintained and upgraded according to company security standards. In support of that responsibility, the Application Developer will work with the project and support teams, as necessary, to ensure the technical solutions meet the business needs, and are developed and implemented with high quality. The scope of responsibility for the position includes project support, as well as maintenance and production support activities.

Responsibilities

Solution Delivery

• Responsible for technical deliverables associated with application code development, including requirements documentation, functional design documents and specifications, work estimates, detailed and technical design documentation, application code and associated documentation, including documentation to fulfill audit requirements
• Demonstrate expertise in the Java frameworks (i.e. Spring, Hibernate, JSF, PrimeFaces, JPA, etc.) and architectures and actively work to enhance them
• Determine and document technical requirements for application systems, including system, module and unit design, unit test plans and test cases
• Create automated tests to ensure that enhancements and upgrades do not negatively impact on applications and integrations
• Collaborate with support teams to schedule and deploy releases to all environments
• Support all phases of the software development lifecycle, including Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Testing, Implementation, and Production support for software systems.
• Develop, debug and test computer applications based on user requirements documentation, and on input from subject matter experts
• Debug, remediate and enhance existing computer applications based on documented variances and enhancement requests, and with guidance from subject matter experts
• Work with the database analyst/administrator and data modeling team as needed to develop a data model appropriate for the application
• Lead or participate in code reviews
• Participate as a member of a cross-functional Scrum team
• Follow the approved methodology for application development and maintenance
• Identify enhancements to application development standards and best practices
• Develop and maintain design documentation according to defined standards and practices
• Assist testing staff in developing product and integration testing approaches
• Respond, as necessary, to support calls in off-hours in order to support 24X7 applications

Requirements

• Comfortable building complex, workflow-based applications frontends and backends using Java
• Recent, significant experience as an application developer working on enterprise software projects across business areas
• Experience working with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination.
• Expert knowledge of Java technologies (Spring, JSF, JPA, Hibernate, etc.) and SQL
• Associates or Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Skills

• Advanced Degree
• Experience using PrimeFaces UI framework, SQL and Microsoft Azure
• Experience working in utilities, pharma, banking, finance, insurance, or other highly-transactional systems environments that produce very large amounts of data
• Experience working with Gitlab CI/CD and GitHub Copilot