Software Engineer IV

The Office of Information Services (OIS) is a shared service provider for the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS). OIS provides the technology systems and services that support more than 18,000 OHA and ODHS agency staff at local offices and facilities around the state. These systems and services help the two agencies determine client service program eligibility; provide medical, housing, food, and job assistance; provide addiction, mental health, vocational and rehabilitative services; protect children, seniors and people with physical and/or developmental disabilities; process claims and benefits; manage provider licensing and state hospital facilities; and promote and protect the state public health.

eXPRS is a web-based system developed to manage long term care Medicaid services for individuals with intellectual & developmental disabilities (I/DD). eXPRS is managed by the Office of Developmental Disabilities Services (ODDS), a program of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS), in coordination with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).

OIS seeks highly skilled Software Engineer IV with expertise as a Java Architect & Developer and expert-level knowledge of and experience with software architecture, design, development, integration, and testing.

Key Person must understand and adhere to existing system architecture standards within the existing eXPRS system Java Struts framework.

Key Person must write clean, efficient, and maintainable code across multiple layers of the eXPRS system codebase.

Key Person must have the ability to solve highly complex problems within an existing large monolithic enterprise system.

Key Person must work collaboratively with other architects within the State of Oregon, as well as other Software Reliability Engineers, Quality Assurance teams, senior development staff, and business analysis teams.

Key Person must analyze existing data structures and maintain integrity of data standards and models while expanding and optimizing the interactions within the database and integrations with other systems using SQL, stored procedures, batch processes, etc., in accordance with business, data security and regulatory requirements.

Scope:

The Office of Financial Services is requesting expansion of eXPRS to support several requests that have been added to the eXPRS development backlog. These requests are required to allow OFS to maintain additional funding rules requirements such as PERC codes and Continuous Eligibility, meet CMS reporting requirements such as TMSIS, enhance mass adjustments to support additional features such as Paid Date, enhance eXPRS to SFMA interface to meet additional requirements such as new payee type and adjustments, created additional efficiencies in the management of the tens of thousands of funding rules handled by eXPRS, and correct several issues that have been identified.

eXPRS must support Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements for Personal Support Workers (PSW). Provider Liability Accounts (PLAs) in eXPRS do not currently allow flexibility in expanding the PSW PLAs to adhere to the regularly changing and expanding requirements of the CBA. Work will be required to split the eXPRS PSW and Agency PLA into separate modules, thereby allowing the Operations and Maintenance team to ensure the PSW PLAs adhere to the CBA rules.

Therefore, the Key Person shall revamp the financial maintenance system in eXPRS, including interface work, accounts recovery and financial indicators.

Therefore, the Key Person shall enhance PSW Liability in eXPRS to meet Collective Bargaining Agreement requirements. Audit existing data systems: models, queries, data quality, security, etc. and provide recommendations and a suggested roadmap for modernization.

Tasks:

Key Person shall:

• Develop and deliver updates to eXPRS application. This includes software code changes and documentation.
• Complete and document required enhancements, defect corrections, batch code, and code modifications
• Draft and deliver Technical Specifications documents that meet the technical requirements.
• Participate in regular planning and review meetings with Authorized Agency's Solution Development and Delivery (SDD) eXPRS team.
• Write and review the test plans and test scripts and make necessary changes as needed.
• Perform unit testing to ensure requirements are met and changed code works as specified.
• Follow Authorized Agency's existing requirements management, design, development and issue tracking processes and development standards (including naming conventions).
• Document in the Azure DevOps tracking system any issues identified in testing and their resolution taken to resolve the issues.
• Conduct end to end system testing as well as end to end system integration testing.

Required skills and experience:

• A highly skilled Java developer with expert-level knowledge and experience with WebSphere Liberty 9 and Java 11 (10+ years of experience)
• Expert understanding of IBM DB2 UDB systems and concepts (10+ years of experience)
• Proficient with Eclipse IDE Liberty 9 Plug In (10+ years of experience)
• J2EE (10+ years of experience)
• Proficient with Git source control concepts
• Bachelor's degree in area of specialty
• At least six years of equivalent experience in the field or in a related area

Covendis rate card description for a Software Engineer IV:

Creates and designs new software by analyzing, testing, assessing, and implementing programming applications. Supports and installs applications and operating system. Assists in the testing process by conducting reviews and analyses, witnessing tests, and participating in software certification. Relies on extensive knowledge and professional discretion to achieve goals. May offer consultation to senior leadership and is considered to be the top-level in this field. Usually reports to an executive. Significant ingenuity and flexibility is expected. Requires a bachelor's degree in a related area.

Covendis rate card rates for a Software Engineer IV:

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Our primary criteria are the qualifications and experience of the proposed key person. Please propose your strongest candidate, at a rate less than or equal to the maximum.

Interviews will be conducted via MS Teams. Interview times will reflect Pacific Standard Time.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we anticipate two weeks or more for the background check completion for the selected candidate.

The selected key person could potentially telecommute, as agreed to between the Agency Authorized Representative and the key person. Any decision to allow telecommuting is made with the understanding that decision will be re-evaluated by the Agency Authorized Representative on a regular basis. The key person should be available to work onsite within a reasonable timeframe.

Telecommuting will be contingent upon the key person providing his/her own adequate computer, monitor(s), Internet connection, and telephone, and be readily available during normal working hours via phone, email or instant message. Access to Agency systems will be provided via VPN or similar software. No hardware or additional software will be provided at the key person's home site or his/her PC.

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Candidate must be local or willing to commute or relocate.

No preference

Additional Location Details (City, State) :

Remote work/Telecommuting will be contingent upon the key person providing their own adequate office equipment and connectivity.

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Please upload the required document to the comment section of the proposal

Examples of prior work product

Relevant to the Services and Deliverables described in this Opportunity (maximum five pages).

No

Summary of Key Person(s) qualifications and experience

providing the requested or similar services. If Key Person(s) are the Proposer's sub-contractors, identify the sub-contracting firm and the percentage of work that will be sub-contracted out.

Yes

Description of Supplier's (organization) experience

of relevant functional business areas or programs and processes as cited in the description of this program/work in Oregon, or similar programs and process knowledge from other states.

No

Resumes of Key Person(s)

proposed to perform work as described in this Opportunity, including their education and work experience.

Yes

(3) Supplier (Organization) References

References must be clients for whom your organization has performed similar work within the last three (3) years. Where possible, clients listed for reference should be state or local Oregon government agencies or health and human services organizations in other states. Include the client's company name, address, and contact person with telephone and email address for the contact person. The contact person must be someone who was directly involved in the work and is qualified to evaluate Proposer's performance.

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(3) References for each proposed Key Person

References must be for similar work performed within the last three (3) years. Where possible, clients listed for reference should be state or local Oregon government agencies or health and human services organizations in other states. Include the client's company name, address, and contact person with telephone and email address for the contact person. The contact person must be someone who was directly involved in the work and is qualified to evaluate the performance of the Key Person(s).

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Minimum Verification Requirements

Please have the candidate complete the required form upon selection. The form is located on the dashboard.