Job Description:
The VADIR Web Java Developer will support system maintenance, sustainment, and new development on the Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Identity Repository (VADIR) which is a critical system in the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VADIR database serves as the authoritative data store from the Department of Defense and VA sources to support registration, automated eligibility determinations, common business functions, and consistent identification of beneficiaries across VA, providing the data to support the improved veteran-centric services that support enterprise goals. VADIR provides reporting and analysis capability to VA staff offices and lines of business. VADIR provides real-time notification of critical events across the continuum of veteran and service member care and benefits which can be applied across VA as needed. VADIR database is built in an Oracle - Redhat Linux operating system and includes database replication to the DoD through the Jumpmind COTS. The VADIR Web Services are on the Redhat Linux operating system and use the Apache web server and WebLogic application server.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop and refine system and web access requirements
- Develop, extend, modify, and fix software programs, especially front-end web access to database software
- Optimize software performance and through put in terms of user response and database access.
- Understand VA Enterprise systems and their data needs for personnel data.
- Estimate, plan, and manage collaborative technical teams
- Evaluate, plan, and manage sustainment and maintenance of java software systems
Basic Qualifications (Candidate MUST have experience with the following)
- Must have a BS degree and at least 3 years of experience in Java development
- Must have VA MBI
- Database Technology experience
- Java language and standards
- Java-based web protocols and techniques
- Java-based database access protocols and techniques
- Oracle Database Systems
- Oracle Real Application Cluster
- SQL
- VA Enterprise Architecture and VA Enterprise Data Ecosystem
- Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense Identity Repository (VADIR)
