Labcorp, a premier global player in life sciences, leads the charge in patient care through advanced clinical laboratory services, diagnostics, drug development, and technology-driven solutions. We are dedicated to innovation and excellence, actively seeking skilled professionals to contribute to our global mission of enhancing health and transforming lives.
We are in search of an IT Sr Technical Specialist to contribute to software-development life-cycle phases including: domain and non-domain problem analysis, solution requirement gathering and analysis, solution design, implementation, code review, source-code control, source building and deployment, validation, QA support, and production support.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
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- Maintain and enhance multi-tier messaging application suites (Java EE, Spring, WAS, Oracle, DB2, MQ)
- Build and maintain IRIS4Health middle-tier message applications (IRIS Interop/Cache; Java, Drools, Kafka, Restful, MLLP)
- Build and maintain multi-tier Clinical Toxicology application (Angular, Java, Spring, WAS, RHOS, Cache)
- Maintain stat-tracking application (two-tier Delphi,, MySQL)
- Maintain and enhance Cytogenetics three-tier application (Java EE, WAS9, DB2, Oracle)
- Maintain and enhance Fibrosure application (Java EE, WAS9, Derby)
- Define develop, validate, and release software products via agile processes for small and large projects
- Support applications and people via Kanban processes
- Interact with laboratory users to analyze problems, design and implement solutions solutions for enterprise systems
- Provide support and troubleshooting of production systems according to an on-call schedule
- Document problem analysis, solution design, implementations, and system support guidelines
- Coach and train team members across lab system organizations to support and develop Java applications
- Communicate effectively and constructively with developers, QA, business analysts, and system users
- Design relational DB table models, object-oriented class models, messaging models, configuration models etc.
- Understand, document, support, and improve inherited code and processes
- Share and help document knowledge and discovery with peer developers
Minimum Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of Java experience or a combination with InfoSystems Cache/IRIS for Health
- A minimum of 1 years of JPA/ORM (Hibernate), Junit, SQL, PLSQL, XML/XSD, JSON experience or equivalent
- Experience with Oracle DB including explain plan and or other query optimization techniques/tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong UML modeling, ER and OO design, and normalization techniques
- Strong code-factoring philosophies and techniques
- Eclipse or NetBeans (or equivalent) IDE
- Strong understanding of client/server design, and smart recognition of separation-of-concern like functional behavior versus non-functional performance
Preferred Requirements
- Java, Angular
- InfoSystem's Cache and/or IRIS for Health
- Spring framework
- Modern deployment architectures using containers, API Gateways, load balancers, and AWS cloud based environments
- WebSphere or WebLogic, RHOS
- RESTful Web Services
- JMS interfacing, Apache Kafka, and IBM MQ
- Node.js/NPM, Bootstrap, or similar frameworks
- Git/BitBucket, Maven, Nexus, UCD, Jira (Kanban and SCRUM), agile workflow
- Unix shell script, DOS script
- SQL
- Design patterns
- Knowledge in HTML5, CSS3, and TypeScript development
- Ability to transform specific domain requirements into generalized technical requirements, and design and implement abstract solutions that are understandable and scalable in performance and reuse
- HL7 and/or Healthcare and/or Clinical Toxicology
- Oracle, MySQL, Derby DB
Benefits: Employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k), Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO), Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Casual, PRN & Part Time employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours are eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan only. For more detailed information, please click here.
Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:
Labcorp strives for inclusion and belonging in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications and merit of the individual. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), family or parental status, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, personal appearance, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. Additionally, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law.
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