Programmer Analyst - Senior IBM Master Data Management(MDM) & Integration Developer

Zenfreed•Lansing, MI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Programmer Analyst is responsible for ongoing maintenance and support of the Master Person Index (MPI), Michigan Index Data Stewardship Portal (MIDSP), and Symmetry applications. These applications support MDHHS automated processes, critical business operations, data integrity, SEM/SUITE compliance, and application security. As a lead, the resource participates in enhancing, integrating, maintaining, and implementing projects, and provides application oversight to business analysts and teams integrating with MPI. The role supports DTMB delivery of prioritized enhancements and maintenance for MPI integrations with major applications, including Bridges and MiIntegrate. The position involves full software development life-cycle work, from gathering requirements and writing functional and technical specifications through development, testing, implementation, monitoring, and documentation. The resource works with business clients, database administrators, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to resolve tasks and tickets, support production and non-production applications, and maintain mission-critical systems. This is a 40-hour-per-week W2 position with a hybrid schedule. Mondays and Tuesdays are mandatory onsite days in Lansing, Michigan; no remote-only option is available. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate to Lansing from day one at their own expense. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States; sponsorship is unavailable. Employment requires a background check and drug screening.

Requirements

At least 8 years of software development experience supporting enterprise-scale systems.
Strong hands-on experience with IBM InfoSphere MDM v14.x Standard Edition (Virtual MDM), including data models, entities, transactions, batch processing, configuration, customization, and troubleshooting.
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka.
At least 8 years of Java/J2EE experience, including Java, JSP, and REST/SOAP-based services, with production troubleshooting skills.
At least 5 years of experience with Linux/Unix operating systems, including command-line use, log analysis, and system-level troubleshooting.
Bachelor's degree.
Ability to understand, maintain, and enhance an existing IBM MDM Standard Edition implementation built by a third-party vendor.
Experience with Kafka topic creation and configuration, producer and consumer development, message-flow troubleshooting, and Zookeeper and Kafka KRaft concepts using the Strimzi operator.
Experience with batch processing using WildFly and Kafka.
Experience deploying, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting applications on WildFly application servers.
Experience integrating Kafka with WildFly-based applications and IBM MDM Standard Edition.
Proficiency writing and optimizing SQL queries in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments.
Strong Linux/Unix shell scripting skills, including Bash automation and operational scripting.
Experience creating, scheduling, and maintaining CRON jobs for batch and scheduled processes.
Ability to independently own, maintain, and support complex systems with minimal external dependency.
Must be authorized to work in the United States; sponsorship is not available.
Must be local to Lansing, Michigan or willing to relocate there from day one at personal expense.
Must work onsite in Lansing on Mondays and Tuesdays; these onsite days are mandatory and cannot be altered.
Must undergo a background check and drug screening.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare experience.
Experience developing with Flowable.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Azure Git repositories, or similar tools.
Experience deploying and supporting applications in cloud and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) environments.
Familiarity with AWS and/or Azure.
Exposure to OpenShift and Kubernetes.
Experience with ELK/Elastic Stack for log monitoring and troubleshooting, including correlating logs across Kafka, WildFly, and MDM.

Responsibilities

Maintain and support the Master Person Index (MPI), Michigan Index Data Stewardship Portal (MIDSP), and Symmetry applications.
Enhance, integrate, maintain, and implement application projects and improvements.
Provide application oversight to business analysts and teams integrating with MPI.
Write high-level functional requirements and gather requirements for complex projects.
Develop functional and technical specifications, prototypes, mockups, flowcharts, screen layouts, and system documentation.
Work in Linux operating systems and develop scripts in PowerShell.
Use Git and GitHub repositories.
Work with database administrators to develop and execute SQL scripts.
Create monthly reports for MDM applications.
Resolve client tasks and tickets related to MPI and MIDSP.
Create and deploy certificates on Windows and Linux systems.
Coordinate with server and network infrastructure teams on maintenance and issue resolution.
Design, develop, and implement test plans and test reports for applications or subsystems.
Create or collect test data and execute approved tests to verify program logic and results.
Assist with user acceptance testing, test cases, and post-implementation testing.
Provide defect and incident tracking information.
Assist with implementation of requests for change, including application and infrastructure changes.
Maintain and update system documentation following system upgrades.
Monitor applications in production and non-production environments.
Provide application support for business client applications maintained by DTMB.
Assist with Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA), hosting documentation, and firewall rules.
Support software development requirements and deliver products and services aligned with software development practices.