Senior Software Developer

About the role

CGI is seeking an enthusiastic, creative, senior SW developer to join a high-performing Agile team in designing and building modern, services-based web applications for a large government agency. Our team is using a modern development stack and various open source technologies. You will have the opportunity to help modernize the cloud-based system.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team in an Agile setting to research best practices, design and develop the application architecture, implement solutions, mentor fellow team members, and s and deploy solutions.
• Work closely with users, stakeholders, business analysts, and product managers to understand problem statement, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participate in daily Scrum ceremonies and conduct sprint demos for stakeholders.
• Participate in all phases of an Agile software development lifecycle, including application design/requirements gathering, estimating development activities, authoring application code, participating in code reviews, and sing the software.
• Authoring and reviewing web application code using AI paired programming techniques
• Participating in daily team discussions and code collaboration to promote continuous progress.
• Participating in client, industry, and end user discussions to help provide technical viewpoint on the application.
• Participating in technical design sessions to create sustainable, high-performing features and providing accurate estimates and development timelines.
• Continuous improvement of existing development tools and technologies.
• Authoring automated sing script for the application.
• Augmenting and improving system architecture.
• Gaining a general understanding of database design and optimizing application access to backend data.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7+ years' hands-on experience with core Java (frontend and backend) development, JEE skills, and well versed in design patterns and related frameworks.
• Experience in Spring-Boot and Microservices.
• Experience with various AI paired programming tooling.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodologies.
• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Paired Programming.
• Experience in API development and application security best practices (OAuth, TLS, PKI etc.).
• Experience working with Apache Kafka messaging software and PostgreSQL RDBMS.
• Demonstrate a culture of continuous process improvements by applying lessons learned from recent projects to future projects.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and self-motivated professional who can hit the ground running.
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills with a passion to explore emerging technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to innovate and a can-do attitude.
• Quick learner with the ability to multi-task, work under pressure, manage tight deadlines, adapt to changing requirements and deal with ambiguity without impacting delivery.
• Detail-oriented individual with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to build trusted relationships and partner across a complex organization.
• Willingness to ask questions, challenge the status-quo and seek out answers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline.

Qualifications

• Experience in web-application development including HTML, CSS, Angular, and JavaScript as well as a background in Java development.

Desired qualifications

• Development - Java / JEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring - REST JAX-RS, Web Services, Security, Controllers/Service, Spring Data ORM (Hibernate/JPA 2), JSON AWS Serverless Services – SQS, SNS, SES, Step, Lambda AWS Analytics – Glue, Redshift, EMR, OpenSearch, Athena, Sagemaker, Quicksight Event Streaming - Kafka Web Server – Apache, Application Server – Jboss EAP Open Source Frameworks – various, including commons-*, ehcache, velocity, aopalliance, mail, swagger, etc. User authentication and authorization - ForgeRock's OpenAM, SecureAuth and Okta. UI/UX – Angular, Bootstrap Databases – AWS RDS for Oracle and PostgreSQL Log Management – Datadog Alerts and Monitoring - Datadog, Google Analytics, New Relic CICD - Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Selenium Load Testing – Jmeter Code Mgmt: Git, GitHub tools, JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, SourceTree, etc.

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Comprehensive insurance options
Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
Paid parental leave
Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
Wellness and Well-being programs

Pay

Reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $80,600.00 - $176,300.00.

Schedule

This position is located in our Lafayette, LA or Knoxville,TN office, however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.