APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER
About The Position
The Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) is seeking a talented Applications Developer to join their team. PSPRS is dedicated to honoring the contributions and sacrifices of Arizona’s public safety employees by providing outstanding service. This role is part of a fast-moving, collaborative, Agile SCRUM team that works on a cloud-based, SaaS pension administration system. The developer will design, develop, and unit-test enhancements and fixes for the system, which manages billions of dollars in transactions. The position offers a remote work arrangement within Arizona, with periodic onsite meetings. PSPRS fosters a culture of learning, collaboration, and employee value, offering competitive pay and excellent benefits.
Requirements
- Experience with Java, Spring, Jasper, PostgreSQL, REST API, GitHub, Eclipse, Jira and Agile SCRUM is required.
- Experience in Java, Spring, Jasper, PostgreSQL, REST API, GitHub, Eclipse and Jira.
- Primarily operates in an Amazon Workspace environment.
- Agile SCRUM.
- Must be able to leverage SQL for complex data extraction and analysis, and integrations.
- Strong customer service skills.
- This person is a team player with excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication.
- Working with stakeholders across the agency to understand business requirements, identify & escalate challenges, opportunities and gaps, and present solutions in SCRUM meetings.
- Demonstrated ability in knowledge and skills requirements.
- Balance, prioritize and organize multiple tasks.
- Work collaboratively in teams and across organizations.
- Synthesize feedback and adjust plans accordingly.
- Build strong relationships inside and outside the organization.
- Develop and write technical documents.
- Quickly learn and develop in new languages, API's and platforms.
- Apply creative solutions to business problems to ensure business needs are most effectively met.
Nice To Haves
- Development experience with pension or insurance systems (specifically Vitech/Majesco) is highly valued.
- Experience in designing and programming cloud-based reporting systems, applications and microservices a plus.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Amazon Workspace experience a plus.
- Experience in pension administration systems (especially Vitech, Majesco, V3locity), or insurance systems a plus.
- Knowledge of financial calculations, statements and concepts a plus.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services or Azure a plus.
- 5 or more years of programming and analysis experience (or equivalent experience).
- AWS Cloud, Python, RPA - UIPath, Artificial Intelligence and LLM integration.
Responsibilities
- Develop integrations and enhancements for a cloud-based, SaaS pension administration system controlling Billions of dollars in transactions.
- Maintain existing systems.
- Create SQL Scripts and Stored Procedures for reports, imports, integrations and data changes.
- Report generation using Jasper Studio.
- Define specs and develop Java batch processing.
- Analyze, debug, troubleshoot, develop and remediate defects in a timely manner.
- Maintain code and pull requests through GitHub.
- Fully engage and participate in Agile process, story grooming, code reviews, etc.
- Learn from and assist others in all sprint and story phases.
- Take advantage of training opportunities.
- Aggressively dig into complex systems to upskill yourself to build technical capabilities, business understanding and development capacity and speed.
- Research and upskill in pension system features, functions, software architecture and data schemas.
- Directly engage with IT and business teams to understand requirements, enhancements and defects, and deliver effective speedy solutions.
Benefits
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Accrual of sick and annual leave
- Affordable medical benefits
- Participation in the Arizona State Retirement Plan (after 6 months of employment)
- Optional participation in a 457 deferred compensation program
- Employer matching on employee deferrals in the 457 plan (100% matching up to 6% of salary per pay period)
- Training and skill advancement opportunities
- Workplace flexibility
- Learning environment
- Team-oriented culture
- Paid Parental Leave program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
