Senior Application Developer / Technical Lead / Production Support Engineer (Ref: 5800)

Position Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a hands-on Senior Application Developer and Technical Lead for mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Perform application maintenance, enhancement, development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Analyze existing application architecture, source code, interfaces, databases, batch processes, message flows, and system dependencies.
• Troubleshoot complex application, middleware, database, interface, messaging, and production-processing issues.
• Support highly available production systems and resolve incidents affecting critical business operations.
• Design, develop, test, implement, and support application enhancements and new functionality.
• Support integration and near-real-time data exchange between multiple enterprise and government systems.
• Maintain and troubleshoot message-broker and interface processing, including queued and event-driven data.
• Support Oracle database applications, stored procedures, SQL/PLSQL, data processing, and performance troubleshooting.
• Support Java/J2EE enterprise applications and middleware environments.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, code reviews, troubleshooting assistance, and mentoring to other development resources.
• Analyze complex business and technical requirements and translate them into application designs and technical solutions.
• Support batch processing, background processing, interfaces, reporting, and data-consolidation workflows.
• Develop and maintain technical specifications, system documentation, interface documentation, deployment procedures, and operational support documentation.
• Coordinate with application developers, database administrators, infrastructure teams, business analysts, project management, County technical personnel, and external system stakeholders.
• Participate in application upgrades, technology refreshes, patches, deployments, performance tuning, and production releases.
• Support scheduled after-hours or weekend deployments, maintenance, upgrades, and production activities when required.
• Apply secure development and support practices appropriate for systems containing sensitive criminal-justice information.

Required Technical Experience

• Java / J2EE enterprise application development
• Oracle Database, including Oracle 19c
• SQL and PL/SQL
• Oracle WebLogic
• IBM WebSphere
• IBM AIX / UNIX environments
• **C and/or Pro*C**
• Enterprise application integration and interface development
• Message-oriented middleware and message-broker architectures
• Batch processing and high-volume transaction/data processing
• Production application troubleshooting and performance analysis
• Enterprise data warehouses and complex relational data environments
• Application deployment, configuration, monitoring, logging, and production support
• Source control, release management, SDLC, testing, and change-management practices

• CCHRS – Consolidated Criminal History Reporting System
• PIX / Cloverleaf (Proactive Information Exchange)
• CA DOJ Adult Criminal History System (ACHS)
• Justice Data Interface Controller (JDIC)
• IBM Master Data Management (MDM)
• Qlik / Qlik reporting and analytics
• Criminal-history or RAP-sheet processing
• Criminal-justice message/data exchange
• Identity matching, subject consolidation, linking, or merging
• Justice-system interfaces involving arrest, booking, prosecution, court, disposition, probation, warrant, or custody information
• Tyler Odyssey or comparable court case-management systems

Criminal Justice / Public Safety Domain Experience

• Criminal history repositories
• Law enforcement
• Sheriff or police departments
• Courts and court case management
• District Attorney / prosecution systems
• Probation
• Corrections and jail-management systems
• Arrest and booking information
• RAP sheets / criminal-history reporting
• State Department of Justice interfaces
• Warrants
• Court dispositions and sentencing
• Criminal-justice data exchanges
• Multi-agency justice information sharing

Technical Lead Qualifications

• Extensive professional application development experience with complex enterprise systems.
• Senior-level experience performing both hands-on development and technical leadership.
• Significant experience maintaining and supporting existing production applications rather than exclusively developing new systems.
• Demonstrated ability to reverse-engineer and understand mature or legacy applications with limited documentation.
• Experience diagnosing complex problems across application, middleware, database, operating-system, messaging, interface, and infrastructure layers.
• Experience supporting applications with multiple upstream and downstream system integrations.
• Strong Oracle database and enterprise Java application experience.
• Experience working within structured SDLC, testing, deployment, configuration-management, and change-control environments.
• Experience working directly with technical and business stakeholders in complex multi-agency environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Background

Engagement

• Employment Type: W2 Contract
• Duration: Long-term engagement anticipated; approximately 2–5+ years
• Candidates must be able to successfully complete required background and security screening.
• Some maintenance, upgrades, patches, deployments, or production activities may require work outside normal business hours, including evenings or weekends.