Groovy Developer

Iowa HHS provides high quality programs and services that protect and improve the health and resiliency of individuals, families, and communities. The public health IT team at HHS is a fun and rewarding place to work. The team fosters growth amongst our peers.  

The disease surveillance system for the state of Iowa is currently being replaced. This position will be a developer on the scrum team working alongside the vendor during development. They will then continue to support and enhance the system in an agile approach.

 We are looking for a self-starter who is charged with designing and coding software on an agile development team. A good candidate will have a positive attitude and strong communication skills to work closely with clients to determine what they need, then use programming languages to create programs.

The technology responsibilities of this position are as follows:

• ·Must have critical thinking skills, as well as strong problem-solving abilities
• ·Producing clean, efficient code based on specifications
• ·Familiar with Groovy, SpEL & PostgreSQL
• ·Experience with Jasper reports would be a plus
• ·Testing and deploying programs and systems
• ·Experience in agile frameworks and popular coding languages such as, Jira, GITHUB and CI/CD 
• ·Integrate software components and third-party programs
• ·Gather and evaluate user feedback to recommend and execute improvements
• ·Create technical documentation for reference and reporting
• ·Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• ·Resourcefulness and troubleshooting skills
• ·Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping

Daily breakdown

20% Meetings

80% Development and documentation