Programmer - Expert

Provide a short description of the Position: This position will support the UI Job Assist Tool (JAT), an initiative to dev

Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate: • Build core REST endpoints, construct and optimize database queries in collaboration with the Data Architect, and implement business-logic validations. • Design and review Java-based microservices and APIs supporting integration between the core UI system and the AI Job Assist Tool. • Review, critique, and recommend approval of vendor API specifications, data schemas, and integration designs before ITS development begins. • Act as a technical liaison among the vendor AI team, NYSDOL business subject-matter experts, and ITS security/infrastructure teams. • Collaborate on establishing coding standards and branching strategies, and perform critical code reviews for security, performance, and maintainability. • Design end-to-end integration among REST APIs, the MCP server, and the core UI system of record. • Collaborate with GCP Cloud Engineering on secure egress proxies, VPC Service Controls, GKE, Pub/Sub, IAM, and related cloud-native architecture. • Design validation frameworks that prevent corrupt or unapproved AI generated data from being written back to the UI system. • Anticipate and mitigate API instability, dependency, and database change risks, and develop technical workarounds as needed. • Develop and execute load-testing strategies to support approximately 1,500 concurrent users and document-heavy workloads. • Support integration of AI capabilities and Model Context Protocol (MCP) services with enterprise Java/microservice solutions. • Create and maintain technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer and mentoring to State staff.