Java Developer

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Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Java Developer
Term: 12-Month
Location: Remote for now – Toronto
Job ID number: C1326

Brief description of duties:

Develop and host web-enabled and database-driven applications in JavaScript, JSON, Python, SQL, HTML. Familiarity with the Angular framework. Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver solutions. Design and develop quality solutions for systems issues consistent with project objectives. Develop, implement and maintain solutions that maximize system availability. Periodic scope assistance Oversee other developers. Troubleshoot coding issues. Ensure coding continuity. A vacancy exists for a senior developer to join the team in the delivery and development of this project and to eventually contribute to future enhancement, support, and maintenance post-delivery. Prime responsibility will be to develop detailed design specifications, create and review code and assess the impact on other applications. The role will work closely with other team members to ensure consistency in coding standards and approaches and to optimize any synergy and re-use opportunities. Key accountabilities are:
• Responsible for leading technical aspects of the project from inception through to deployment. Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions. Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology. Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions. Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues. Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development estimates to the Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
• Configuration management for the sub-projects within the release.
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment, and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments. May lead code reviews.
• Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed.
• Participate in the development of test strategy, test plans, test cases, and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to the business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage, and resolution.
• Data set up and environment shakedown.
• Coaching / mentoring of junior developers.
• Knowledge transfer within the group.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full-time staff upon completion of the contract term. SKILLS: Development experience in distributed windows or Java environments. Experience with JavaScript, JSON, Python, SQL, HTML.

• University, College degree, or equivalent experience in programming.
• Minimum 3 years working directly on a daily basis writing code.
• Expert programming skills:

MUST-have:

• Javascript
• JSON
• SQL
• Python
• HTML

Nice to have:

• XML
• RegEx
• Angular
• Service Now Developer Cert