Senior Desktop Application Developer
PlanIT Group, LLC · Reston, VA · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteInformation TechnologyFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Sections present:
- About the role: The description paragraph: "The client seeks a Senior Desktop Application Developer with extensive Java development experience, strong technical capabilities, and demonstrated business acumen to support a mature enterprise application. The client is in Washington, DC; work will be performed remotely. The application is a complex, data-driven Java desktop application installed and executed locally on user workstations. It processes and displays data from databases, local files, hardware devices, and remote systems, dynamically adjusting workflows, processing logic, and user-interface behavior based on data and configuration. Because this is primarily a desktop application, candidates must have substantial Java Swing desktop development experience in addition to Java/J2EE skills. Candidates whose experience is primarily browser-based web development may not have the background required for this role."
That's about the role.
- Responsibilities: list of bullet points under "Key Responsibilities". We'll output
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Sections present:
- About the role: The description paragraph: "The client seeks a Senior Desktop Application Developer with extensive Java development experience, strong technical capabilities, and demonstrated business acumen to support a mature enterprise application. The client is in Washington, DC; work will be performed remotely. The application is a complex, data-driven Java desktop application installed and executed locally on user workstations. It processes and displays data from databases, local files, hardware devices, and remote systems, dynamically adjusting workflows, processing logic, and user-interface behavior based on data and configuration. Because this is primarily a desktop application, candidates must have substantial Java Swing desktop development experience in addition to Java/J2EE skills. Candidates whose experience is primarily browser-based web development may not have the background required for this role."
That's about the role.
- Responsibilities: list of bullet points under "Key Responsibilities". We'll output - each.
- Requirements: maybe "Required Skills And Experience". Could be considered Requirements. Also "Preferred Skills". Could be Skills. Also "Key Competencies". Also "Education Requirements". Also "Additional Provisions". Also "Place and Period of Performance". Also "Standard Work Schedule". So we need to decide which sections to include.
We have headings allowed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to map content.
- About the role: we have.
- Responsibilities: we have bullet list.
- Requirements: maybe "Required Skills And Experience" (the list of required skills). Could be Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe "Education Requirements" and "Key Competencies"? Or "Preferred Skills"? Qualifications often includes education, certifications, etc. We'll put Education Requirements under Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe "Preferred Skills" and "Key Competencies"? Or we could combine required skills under Requirements and preferred skills under Skills. We'll do that.
- Benefits: none mentioned. So we should NOT include Benefits heading.
- Pay: none mentioned. So no Pay.
- Schedule: we have "Standard Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, five days per week, eight hours per day." Also "Place and Period of Performance Location: Remote, supporting a client located in Washington, DC." That's location info. Could be under Schedule? Actually schedule is about work hours. We'll include Schedule heading with that sentence. Also location maybe could be part of About the role? But we already have location in About the role. We could keep location in About the role. The schedule we can put under Schedule.
- Additional Provisions: includes clearance, citizenship, residency, travel limits, dress code. This could be considered Qualifications? Or maybe we could add a section like "Requirements" includes those? But headings limited. Could put under Qualifications as additional qualifications. Or maybe under Requirements. Since we have Requirements already for skills, we could put these under Qualifications (like eligibility). We'll include them under Qualifications as bullet list.
We must not invent placeholder text. Ensure we include all substantive info.
Let's extract details.
About the role paragraph: we have it.
Responsibilities bullet list:
- Design, develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance a complex Java desktop application.
- Develop and maintain Java Swing functionality, dynamic user interfaces, data-driven workflows, processing logic, and business rules.
- Translate business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, flowcharts, and process diagrams into detailed technical designs and application functionality.
- Develop and maintain integrations with Oracle, HSQLDB, Excel/local files, remote systems, and USB-connected hardware such as barcode scanners and scales.
- Troubleshoot application, database, data-processing, hardware-interface, and integration issues across development, testing, and production environments.
- Participate throughout the full software development life cycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, production support, code reviews, defect resolution, and releases.
- Develop technical documentation and collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, testers, developers, and other technical teams.
- Adhere to client development, security, configuration-management, and documentation standards.
Required Skills And Experience bullet list (we need to keep each bullet):
- 8+ years of advanced Java/J2EE programming experience.
- 4+ years of advanced Java Swing experience developing and maintaining desktop applications.
- 4+ years of PL/SQL programming experience.
- 2+ years of experience with technologies such as Spring, Xerces, Com4j, and Apache Commons.
- Strong experience supporting mature, locally installed, data-driven applications containing substantial existing business logic.
- Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts, relational database design, SQL, Oracle, database connectivity, and local/embedded databases such as HSQLDB.
- Experience processing structured data files, including Microsoft Excel.
- Experience developing complex workflows, branching logic, decision trees, dynamic user interfaces, and data/configuration-driven business rules.
- Strong knowledge of secure Java coding practices and vulnerability mitigation.
- Experience with WiX, GitHub, source control, configuration management, and change management.
- Experience with full software development life-cycle activities and Agile.
- Experience developing technical designs from requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.
Preferred Skills bullet list:
- Experience with NetBeans IDE, Maven, SonarLint/Sonar, and Jenkins.
- Experience integrating Java desktop applications with USB-connected hardware, including barcode scanners and scales.
- Experience supporting statistical sampling, quantitative data collection, or data-analysis applications.
- Experience supporting systems with large numbers of configurable workflows, processing paths, and complex decision logic.
- Experience analyzing mature codebases and dependencies among application logic, data, configuration, interfaces, and UI components.
- Strong technical documentation and business/technical communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within an Agile team.
Education Requirements paragraph:
- A minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years' relevant experience.
- A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required.
- If the indiviual's degree is not in the applicable field then four (4) additional years of related experience is required.
Key Competencies paragraph:
- The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex business processes into maintainable technical solutions.
- The candidate must be comfortable navigating a mature codebase, understanding complex workflows and decision logic, independently investigating unfamiliar functionality, and balancing new development with maintenance, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and production support.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and collaboration skills are essential.
Additional Provisions bullet list:
- The Selected Candidate Must Successfully complete the client-mandated clearance process, which may include drug screening, criminal history, and credit checks.
- Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder).
- Meet all requirements necessary to obtain and maintain the required client sensitive clearance.
- If an interim clearance is granted, continued employment is contingent upon successfully obtaining the required final clearance.
- Have resided in the United States for the past five years.
- Have no more than six months of travel outside the United States during the past five years, subject to applicable client exceptions.
- Military service is excluded; this exception does not automatically extend to military family members.
- Adhere to the client's business casual dress code when working at or visiting client facilities.
Place and Period of Performance:
- Location: Remote, supporting a client located in Washington, DC.
Standard Work Schedule:
- Standard Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, five days per week, eight hours per day.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Already not.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
We'll structure:
About the role
... paragraph ...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
for Required Skills And Experience
Qualifications
We could include Education Requirements, Key Competencies, Additional Provisions. Maybe split into multiple sub-sections? But we only have one heading Qualifications. We can put multiple or
under it.
We'll put:
Qualifications
Education Requirements: ...
Key Competencies: ...
Additional Provisions: ...
But we need to preserve list items for Additional Provisions maybe as . We'll decide.
Better: Under Qualifications, we can have:
Education Requirements: ...
Key Competencies: ...
for Additional Provisions
But we must not add extra formatting like if not in original? It's okay to add for clarity? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Adding is not inventing content, just emphasis. Might be okay but safer to just put as plain text.
We could do:
Qualifications
A minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years' relevant experience. A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual's degree is not in the applicable field then four (4) additional years of related experience is required.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex business processes into maintainable technical solutions. The candidate must be comfortable navigating a mature codebase, understanding complex workflows and decision logic, independently investigating unfamiliar functionality, and balancing new development with maintenance, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and production support. Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and collaboration skills are essential.
- The Selected Candidate Must Successfully complete the client-mandated clearance process, which may include drug screening, criminal history, and credit checks.
- Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder).
- Meet all requirements necessary to obtain and maintain the required client sensitive clearance.
- If an interim clearance is granted, continued employment is contingent upon successfully obtaining the required final clearance.
- Have resided in the United States for the past five years.
- Have no more than six months of travel outside the United States during the past five years, subject to applicable client exceptions.
- Military service is excluded; this exception does not automatically extend to military family members.
- Adhere to the client's business casual dress code when working at or visiting client facilities.
Then Skills section: Preferred Skills.
Skills
for Preferred Skills
Schedule:
Schedule
Standard Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, five days per week, eight hours per day.
We also have location remote already in About the role; we could also mention location in About the role paragraph already includes "The client is in Washington, DC; work will be performed remotely." Good.
We must not include Benefits or Pay.
Check that we didn't miss any substantive info: The "Place and Period of Performance Location: Remote, supporting a client located in Washington, DC." Already covered.
Check that we didn't duplicate content: We have About the role includes that sentence. Good.
Check that we didn't miss any responsibilities: we captured all.
Check that we didn't miss any required skills: we captured all.
Check that we didn't miss any preferred skills: we captured all.
Check that we didn't miss any education requirements: we captured.
Check that we didn't miss any key competencies: we captured.
Check that we didn't miss any additional provisions: we captured.
Check that we didn't miss schedule: we captured.
Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. There's none.
Now output HTML.
Make sure to properly escape any special characters? The text includes apost
About the role
... paragraph ...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- for Required Skills And Experience
Qualifications
We could include Education Requirements, Key Competencies, Additional Provisions. Maybe split into multiple sub-sections? But we only have one heading Qualifications. We can put multipleor
- under it.
We'll put:
- The Selected Candidate Must Successfully complete the client-mandated clearance process, which may include drug screening, criminal history, and credit checks.
- Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder).
- Meet all requirements necessary to obtain and maintain the required client sensitive clearance.
- If an interim clearance is granted, continued employment is contingent upon successfully obtaining the required final clearance.
- Have resided in the United States for the past five years.
- Have no more than six months of travel outside the United States during the past five years, subject to applicable client exceptions.
- Military service is excluded; this exception does not automatically extend to military family members.
- Adhere to the client's business casual dress code when working at or visiting client facilities.
Qualifications
Education Requirements: ...
Key Competencies: ...
Additional Provisions: ...
But we need to preserve list items for Additional Provisions maybe as- . We'll decide.
Better: Under Qualifications, we can have:
Education Requirements: ...
Key Competencies: ...
- for Additional Provisions
Qualifications
A minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years' relevant experience. A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual's degree is not in the applicable field then four (4) additional years of related experience is required.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex business processes into maintainable technical solutions. The candidate must be comfortable navigating a mature codebase, understanding complex workflows and decision logic, independently investigating unfamiliar functionality, and balancing new development with maintenance, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and production support. Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and collaboration skills are essential.
Skills
- for Preferred Skills
Schedule
Standard Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, five days per week, eight hours per day.
We also have location remote already in About the role; we could also mention location in About the role paragraph already includes "The client is in Washington, DC; work will be performed remotely." Good. We must not include Benefits or Pay. Check that we didn't miss any substantive info: The "Place and Period of Performance Location: Remote, supporting a client located in Washington, DC." Already covered. Check that we didn't duplicate content: We have About the role includes that sentence. Good. Check that we didn't miss any responsibilities: we captured all. Check that we didn't miss any required skills: we captured all. Check that we didn't miss any preferred skills: we captured all. Check that we didn't miss any education requirements: we captured. Check that we didn't miss any key competencies: we captured. Check that we didn't miss any additional provisions: we captured. Check that we didn't miss schedule: we captured. Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. There's none. Now output HTML. Make sure to properly escape any special characters? The text includes apost