The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health is seeking an NCEDSS Java Programmer. This position will support production Java maintenance efforts for the NC Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NCEDSS)

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health is seeking an NCEDSS Java Programmer. This position will support production Java maintenance efforts for the North Carolina Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NCEDSS). Position supplements existing support staff in Java, Jasper/SQL based services.

In this role the ideal candidate will support existing staff to better manage production maintenance work load distribution of Java based tasks activities for the North Carolina Electronic Disease System (NCEDSS). Tasks might include such things as review and change Java to ensure proper handling of existing case notification HL7 protocols from NC to CDC for diseases like Hepatitis and Tuberculosis (TB) cases or within the ninety (90) active reportable diseases in NC. An ability to adapt to needs within a disease category is important. Local candidates strongly preferred.

Expected Skills: Resource should have heavy, broad Java based background including an ability to quickly understand impacts of actions and be able to explain any nuances to a diverse set of non-technical stakeholders. In addition, skills dealing with SQL and Jasper are important.

Skills should include but not be limited to:
• Having an ability to quickly understand existing production level Java based processes to enable configuration changes within disease categories
• Having an ability to see impacts of change along with testing of corrections in code within a disease category or across disease common functional capability
• Implementing configuration changes to meet needs.
• Experience in reporting processes based on database content, with subsequent approvals and incorporation and ensure technical and or user documentation update coordination
• Unit testing and peer review along with ensuring updates of system and user documentation
• Having experience in Jasper reporting
• Having experience in XML or like tools
• Having experience in information exchange protocols, i.e. HL7