Front End/UI Developer

Founded 33 years ago, Allied Consultants is an Austin-based firm and premier provider of technical and business staffing solutions for the State of Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Front End/UI Developer to be a key resource on a technical services team for our client, Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC).

**Location of job: Hybrid. Program will only allow candidates who are within the City of Austin or the surrounding cities. (LOCALS ONLY). The tentative workdays are as follows below.**

Responsibilities

The client requires the services of 1 Front End/UI Developer, who meets the general qualification of Developer 3 and the specifications outlined in this document for client - Social Services Applications team.

• Performs Front End/UI application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support for Social Services User Interface applications.
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.
• As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing and deployment of new application components, as required.
• Analyze UI framework, libraries for configuration & performance tuning opportunities, as required.
• Develop, enhance and maintain existing and new web-based J2EE/Portal applications within client’s SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform using Agile methodologies.
• Create technical and design documentation, as required.
• Perform system analysis and problem resolution, as required.
• Develop and maintain data and process models, as required.
• Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error.
• Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts.
• Participate in program design, coding and test walk-through meetings to provide input regarding technical standards and customer requirements.
• Provide application support (defect repair, maintenance, and production operations support) for web-based Java applications in an SOA platform. Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities. Develop and test application code to resolve defects and improve application reliability and performance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• 8 years of hands-on experience in Front End/UI development, enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications using Angular and/or similar frameworks on the J2EE application development platform
• 8 years of hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)
• 8 years of hands-on UI development experience implementing Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies
• 8 years of hands-on programming experience in following languages: HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular, Typescript, JSON, XML, ES5/ES6, NPM, Maven and/or other UI frameworks/libraries.
• 8 years of demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining an enterprise-level Front End/UI application including complete ownership of the front-end stack (JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Angular and/or other UI frameworks).
• 8 years experience implementing Client-facing applications with responsive design and development
• 8 years experience implementing SPAs with JS or with libraries/frameworks like Angular
• 8 years experience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• 8 years of strong understanding and experience of fundamental programming concepts of data structures, algorithms, performance, caching and scalability issues in the context of Web based UI applications
• 8 years experience in developing and testing application user interface for ADA/Accessibility Compliance
• 8 years experience in implementing best practices in the areas of application design, performance, scalability and maintainability.
• 8 years experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Selenium

Preferred:

• 5 years hands-on experience with Spring Boot Java Applications
• 5 years hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later
• 5 years hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum)
• 5 years hands-on experience with web applications developed for Cloud platform
• 5 years hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology
• 5 years hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 33 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Front End/UI Developer to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.

Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check

Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.