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The application frontends are to be designed as platform independent and mobile ready. This senior expert level frontend web developer will be responsible for the look and feel of the web application that the user will experiance, unit and systems testing, implementation, and maintenance of complex Web systems and back-end development. This position requires experience with Java, web application development, web service development, and distributed systems development. This position will work on one of the States most complex information technology projects as Clemson migrates the States existing mainframe Medicaid systems to modern technology environments and platforms\nThe State expects the software development team members to possess the following technical skills:\nApplication Servers: Apache Tomcat\nFrameworks: Tapestry\nRequired Skills: HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, Familiarity of various Javascript Libraries, Java, UC4, ActiveMQ, Unix varients, Unix Scripting, EDI Transaction sets (270/271, 276/277, 837), JDBC, SQL, MongoDB\nTools: Subversion, maven\nIntegrated Development Environments: Eclipse, NetBeans, HTML/Javascript IDE\nEnvironment: ORACLE LINUX SERVERS, SQL SERVER AND IDMS DATABASES\nSCOPE OF THE PROJECT:\nThis project team develops and supports the framework functionality of the State’s EDI Services & the Medicaid Web Portal application. Clemson University’s Medicaid Information Technology Services (MITS) team develops and operates systems on behalf of the State’s Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS). Clemson’s MITS team will be responsible for the project management and oversight of this project.\nDAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:\nThe Software Engineer is responsible for assessing, designing, developing, supporting and implementing the State’s Member Management replacement project and any other projects assigned. This position will be a part of a Production Support group under the direction of Clemson’s technical project manager for support & maintenance of all new technology development work.\nThe Software Engineer role has two major functions: design and development/implementation.\nWeb-based Distributed Systems Architecture and Design: Design, develop, and implement enterprise level web-based systems, enterprise defined in terms of system scope as well as number of users. Plan for responsive user interfaces incorporating modern Web 2.0 technologies (such as AJAX) and mobility needs (smartphones and tablets).\nSoftware Engineering: Design and develop Java applications incorporating industry-standard frameworks where appropriate (such as Spring). Plan for highly available and scalable applications. Incorporate services into system design where appropriate.\nSoftware Project Lifecycle Management: Effectively implement and utilize modern Web-based software industry standards and best practices, use of integrated development environments, strong emphasis on unit testing and participation in complete software lifecycle from analysis and design through testing and deployment. Assist end-user and business analysts in turning business needs into incremental software development projects.\nCommunication: Communicate with a broad mix of stakeholders involved in the information technology system replacement projects including business users, analysts, software engineers, database architects and administrators (DBAs), quality assurance engineers (QA), systems and infrastructure staff, and support staff.\nREQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):\n1. 7+ years of experience with Java\n2. 7+ years of experience with HTML\n3. 7+ years of experience with JavaScript\n4. 7+ years of experience with JQuery\n5. 5+ years of experience with EDI Transaction Sets (270/271, 276/277, 837)\n6. 5+ years of experience with MongoDB\nSoft skills Required: Effective Communication Skills (written and oral), Adaptability, Flexibility, Self-motivation, Problem Solving, Analytical Thinking, Time Management, Ability to work effectively in a stressful environment\nPREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):\nMedicaid eligibility system/business operations experience.\nMedicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experience\nExperience with JDBC\nExperience with SQL\nExperience with UC4\nEDUCATION:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.\nCERTIFICATIONS:\nJava J2ee Server and/or related J2EE certification preferred.\nThis position will provide FRONTEND and backend web development including all user\ninterfaces for South Carolina’s Medicaid web application and associated web services.\nThe application frontends are to be designed as platform independent and mobile\nready. This senior expert level frontend web developer will be responsible for the look\nand feel of the web application that the user will experiance, unit and systems testing,\nimplementation, and maintenance of complex Web systems and back-end\ndevelopment. This position requires experience with Java, web application\ndevelopment, web service development, and distributed systems development. This\nposition will work on one of the States most complex information technology projects\nas Clemson migrates the States existing mainframe Medicaid systems to modern\ntechnology environments and platforms\nThe State expects the software development team members to possess the following\ntechnical skills:\nApplication Servers: Apache Tomcat\nFrameworks: Tapestry\nRequired Skills: HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, Familiarity of various Javascript Libraries, Java,\nUC4, ActiveMQ, Unix varients, Unix Scripting, EDI Transaction sets (270/271, 276/277, 837),\nJDBC, SQL, MongoDB\nTools: Subversion, maven\nIntegrated Development Environments: Eclipse, NetBeans, HTML/Javascript IDE\nEnvironment: ORACLE LINUX SERVERS, SQL SERVER AND IDMS DATABASES\nWHY IS THIS POSITION OPEN\nThis position is being posted due to 36-month assignment requirement.\nSCOPE OF THE PROJECT:\nThis project team develops and supports the framework functionality of the State’s EDI\nServices & the Medicaid Web Portal application. Clemson University’s Medicaid\nInformation Technology Services (MITS) team develops and operates systems on\nbehalf of the State’s Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS).\nClemson’s MITS team will be responsible for the project management and oversight of\nthis project.\nDAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:\nThe Software Engineer is responsible for assessing, designing, developing, supporting\nand implementing the State’s Member Management replacement project and any other\nprojects assigned. This position will be a part of a Production Support group under the\ndirection of Clemson’s technical project manager for support & maintenance of all new\ntechnology development work.\nThe Software Engineer role has two major functions: design and\ndevelopment/implementation.\nWeb-based Distributed Systems Architecture and Design: Design, develop, and\nimplement enterprise level web-based systems, enterprise defined in terms of\nsystem scope as well as number of users. Plan for responsive user interfaces\nincorporating modern Web 2.0 technologies (such as AJAX) and mobility\nneeds (smartphones and tablets).\nSoftware Engineering: Design and develop Java applications incorporating\nindustry-standard frameworks where appropriate (such as Spring). Plan for\nhighly available and scalable applications. Incorporate services into system\ndesign where appropriate.\nSoftware Project Lifecycle Management: Effectively implement and utilize\nmodern Web-based software industry standards and best practices, use of\nintegrated development environments, strong emphasis on unit testing and\nparticipation in complete software lifecycle from analysis and design through\ntesting and deployment. Assist end-user and business analysts in turning\nbusiness needs into incremental software development projects.\nCommunication: Communicate with a broad mix of stakeholders involved in\nthe information technology system replacement projects including business\nusers, analysts, software engineers, database architects and administrators\n(DBAs), quality assurance engineers (QA), systems and infrastructure staff, and\nsupport staff.\nREQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF\nIMPORTANCE):\n1. 7+ years of experience with Java\n2. 7+ years of experience with\nHTML\n3. 7+ years of experience with\nJavaScript\n4. 7+ years of experience with\nJQuery\n5. 5+ years of experience with EDI\nTransaction Sets (270/271,\n276/277, 837)\n6. 5+ years of experience with\nMongoDB\nSoft skills Required: Effective\nCommunication Skills (written and oral),\nAdaptability, Flexibility, Self-motivation,\nProblem Solving, Analytical Thinking,\nTime Management, Ability to work\neffectively in a stressful environment\nPREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF\nIMPORTANCE):\nMedicaid eligibility system/business\noperations experience.\nMedicaid Management Information\nSystem (MMIS) experience\nExperience with JDBC\nExperience with SQL\nExperience with UC4\nEDUCATION:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent work\nexperience.\nCERTIFICATIONS:\nJava J2ee Server and/or related J2EE\ncertification preferred.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9289,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T00:20:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":20,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.419,"p_room":0.473,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:1","agency","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/novalink-solutions-llc-java-project-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/novalink-solutions-llc-java-project-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T10:35:45Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13948,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4449854},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4449854"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnovalink-solutions-llc-java-project-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnovalink-solutions-llc-java-project-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnovalink-solutions-llc-java-project-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/novalink-solutions-llc-java-project-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnovalink-solutions-llc-java-project-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3120901}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"novalink-solutions.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3120901},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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