Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer (1230) - Advanced
Zencon Group
Tallahassee, FL 32308, USA
5/10/2026
Full time
Background
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Business Systems Engineering Bureau is responsible for applications software development. The strategic direction of the department is deliver scalable, extensible, service oriented solutions. There are multiple systems that require technical solutions research and programming for the purpose of improving the infrastructure, performance and reliability. Continued improvements of system performance and ease of maintainability are desired.
The applications software development staff is responsible for analyzing, designing, writing code, testing, and implementing applications/systems into production environments. Staff is also responsible for researching, recommending, and implementing software solutions. IT staff provide technical support to production systems and development projects. They are responsible for integrating systems with 3rd party tools, application servers, operating systems, databases and custom written modules/systems. They are also responsible for recommending environmental configuration settings to ensure proper and efficient functioning of production systems.
ITS is requesting one (1) full-time contract position to provide support, maintenance and enhancements to FDLE Information Systems allowing other programmers to focus on their primary duties.
Description of Services & Deliverables
FDLE requires the services of one Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer for Business Systems Engineering software development initiatives. The Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer will work under the direction of the FDLE's System Programming Administrator to achieve the goals and objectives of the projects stated below.
FDLE requires the services of a Systems Analyst with technical knowledge and experience in programming the J2EE/JAVA, JBOSS application server, MS SQL and ORACLE database environments. The person in this function is considered an expert in all phases of system development and must have understanding of business, business insight and broad understanding of multiple business areas.
The person in this function will be responsible for:
Translating the business requirements into functional requirements and IT processes required to prepare Technical Design Document (TDD), Solution Design Document (SDD), high-level process flow diagrams, designs, traceability matrix of solutions with the requirements.
Stakeholder management with project sponsors, business and IT project managers, technical architects, development and validation teams, implementation analysts, subject matter experts, IT Senior leadership and project management office in order to address various issues, resolve the queries, communicate on project status, milestones, delays, challenges, risks and risk mitigation plans.
Research on current industry trends, emerging technologies and challenges, systems integration, and configuration to apply in solution development.
Support validation of system changes and perform high-level UAT as and when needed.
Serve as liaison between Business and IT teams to resolve issues and concerns preventing testing sign-off.
Integrate with internal and external applications, and deliver the working iteration into production environment.
Responsibilities
Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Business Systems Engineering Bureau is responsible for applications software development. The strategic direction of the department is deliver scalable, extensible, service oriented solutions. There are multiple systems that require technical solutions research and programming for the purpose of improving the infrastructure, performance and reliability. Continued improvements of system performance and ease of maintainability are desired.
The applications software development staff is responsible for analyzing, designing, writing code, testing, and implementing applications/systems into production environments. Staff is also responsible for researching, recommending, and implementing software solutions. IT staff provide technical support to production systems and development projects. They are responsible for integrating systems with 3rd party tools, application servers, operating systems, databases and custom written modules/systems. They are also responsible for recommending environmental configuration settings to ensure proper and efficient functioning of production systems.
ITS is requesting one (1) full-time contract position to provide support, maintenance and enhancements to FDLE Information Systems allowing other programmers to focus on their primary duties.
Description of Services & Deliverables
FDLE requires the services of one Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer for Business Systems Engineering software development initiatives. The Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer will work under the direction of the FDLE's System Programming Administrator to achieve the goals and objectives of the projects stated below.
FDLE requires the services of a Systems Analyst with technical knowledge and experience in programming the J2EE/JAVA, JBOSS application server, MS SQL and ORACLE database environments. The person in this function is considered an expert in all phases of system development and must have understanding of business, business insight and broad understanding of multiple business areas.
The person in this function will be responsible for:
Translating the business requirements into functional requirements and IT processes required to prepare Technical Design Document (TDD), Solution Design Document (SDD), high-level process flow diagrams, designs, traceability matrix of solutions with the requirements.
Stakeholder management with project sponsors, business and IT project managers, technical architects, development and validation teams, implementation analysts, subject matter experts, IT Senior leadership and project management office in order to address various issues, resolve the queries, communicate on project status, milestones, delays, challenges, risks and risk mitigation plans.
Research on current industry trends, emerging technologies and challenges, systems integration, and configuration to apply in solution development.
Support validation of system changes and perform high-level UAT as and when needed.
Serve as liaison between Business and IT teams to resolve issues and concerns preventing testing sign-off.
Integrate with internal and external applications, and deliver the working iteration into production environment.
Responsibilities
- Enterprise Application Integration (EA) Engineer responsibilities include but may not be limited to the following:
- Gather and analyze business requirements and prepare functional requirements, design documentation, technical specification documents to develop FDLE Information Systems.
- Functions as a technical consultant or researcher.
- Technical research and evaluation of technologies, tools, databases, methods, etc. Analysis of detailed requirements and documentation.
- Programming and implementing solutions for business requirements.
- Contributor on project planning, organization, implementation.
- Contributor to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, WBS development.
- Contributor to risk identification, tracking, analysis.
- Contributor to issue management and tracking.
- Communications management.
- Effective communication among project stakeholders.
- Coordinate activities with FDLE staff required to support the project.
- Provide assistance to FDLE staff in the preparation of procurement documents, evaluation of proposals and contract negotiations.
- Provide weekly status reports to the project manager.
Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience as pplications development analyst on successful, enterprise level information technology projects.
- Knowledge at an expert level in all phases of system development and must have understanding of business, business insight and broad understanding of multiple business areas.
- Models and applies software engineering methods and techniques to the design, definition, development, evaluation, integration, and/or support of IT solutions.
- Must have the ability to work independently or cooperatively with other software developers.
- Functions as a technical consultant or researcher.
- Performs analysis and troubleshooting of system defects and issues.
- Designs quality control and test procedures. Applies technical expertise to test system solutions.
- Uses defined procedures to configure, test and debug software. Investigates, analyzes and resolves problems on software products.
- With minimal supervision from more senior resources, handles portions of the projects, including services/products/technology solution evaluation/modification, data development, analysis, first draft written communications and client interaction.
- Gathers and evaluates client capabilities and needs.
- ssists with services/products/technology solution architecture design and installation.
- ccountable to upper management for all phases of specific projects. Experience with meeting facilitation and documentation.
- Experience in delivering the project in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification (i.e. defined to meet user requirements) within the approved budget and other specified criteria.
- Experience with:
- Java 1.6 and higher
- J2EE (JSP, EJB, JPA/Hibernate)
- Java Frameworks like JSF, Wicket, Struts, Spring, etc
- Server Configuration using Apache HTTP, Apache Tomcat, JBoss EAP, JBoss Fuse and JBoss AMQ
- Enterprise Content Management (Alfresco, Activiti, Ephesoft)
- JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS), Eclipse, Intellij, Notepad ++, Textpad, SOAP UI, IReport Designer
- Oracle 11g and higher, MS SQL Server, or MySQL
- Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.
- Web Services using SOAP and REST
- Visual Basic
- VB Script
- JavaScript
- VB DLL creations/usage
- Linux
- XML
- Experience in developing new XHTML pages using Java Server Faces, Primefaces, JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.
- Experience in Systems integration using Payment Gateways.
- Experience in integration of multiple systems or applications.
- Experience automating data sharing processes.
Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
- Oracle EBS 12.1.
- Shell, awk, sed scripts.
- Hibernate (object relational mapping tools).
- ctive Report.
- Crystal Report.
- Microsoft Project.
- Business Analysis.
- Database Design.
- WebLogic 7.0 (application server).