Hiring Senior Java Backend Developer

Project overview

As a Senior Java Backend Developer, you will work on the management, further development, and modernization of existing applications, services, and system integrations. You will help make existing backend solutions future-proof, with attention to technical debt, code quality, security, maintainability, performance, and manageability.

An important part is the further development of the Horizonscan Geneesmiddelen. You will work on new features, digitalization of information delivery, and an API connection with the international Horizonscan (IHSI). You will also contribute to more effective triage and better collaboration with existing and new stakeholders.

You will provide specialist expertise in Java, XML/XSD, Bloomreach Experience Manager, enterprise search, relational databases, Oracle Linux, migration trajectories, and integrations with existing systems. You also have demonstrable experience with connecting large information systems through an API.

Team BIS is a multidisciplinary and engaged IT team within the Zorginstituut. Team BIS develops and manages applications and websites for colleagues, citizens, and healthcare professionals. In doing so, the team follows applicable standards, guidelines, and laws and regulations. As an expert in your field, you will have the space to contribute independently. Team BIS works informally and collegially, with a professional attitude. By regularly reflecting on who the team is and where it wants to go, it remains agile in a continuously changing IT landscape.

Zorginstituut Nederland, in coordination with relevant stakeholders, works on a future-proof system for medicines (TSG). The goal of TSG is to control the introduction of new medicines into the basic health insurance package and to clarify and accelerate assessment processes where possible. To achieve the goals of TSG, the further development of the Horizonscan Geneesmiddelen is required. For this purpose, a design has been created in consultation with parties, expanding the fields per record and adapting the process of information delivery.

This means 1) the digitalization of the information flow from parties 2) the flow of information via an API from the international Horizonscan (IHSI).

Where will you work?

Everyone living or working in the Netherlands is required to have health insurance. Zorginstituut Nederland is a government organization whose main task is to compile the basic health insurance package. In doing so, Zorginstituut Nederland makes complex but necessary choices to ensure that everyone in the Netherlands can receive good healthcare. Now and in the future.

The Zorginstituut is an independent administrative body that operates under the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS). The Zorginstituut carries out activities based on the two statutory health insurance laws: the Health Insurance Act (Zvw) and the Long-Term Care Act (Wlz). Appropriate care is the common thread in all tasks of the Zorginstituut. The Zorginstituut is responsible for several matters:

• The CV and cover letter must demonstrate that the offered candidate has, through education, courses, work experience, or example projects, at least:
• HBO (higher professional education) in Computer Science, Software Development, or a comparable IT-related study
• Minimum of ten years of demonstrable experience with:
• Java
• XML/XSD
• Bloomreach Experience Manager
• Enterprise search
• Relational databases
• Oracle Linux
• Migration trajectories
• Integrations with existing systems
• Connecting large information systems via an API
• Demonstrable experience with designing, developing, and managing RESTful APIs and system integrations.
• Agile/Scrum development trajectories
• Secure coding practices and compliance
• OWASP and NCSC guidelines
• Bloomreach Experience Manager as a content management system
• Integration of enterprise search solutions
• Minimum of two years of demonstrable experience with relational databases
• Minimum of five years of demonstrable work experience within a government organization or comparable complex ICT environment
• Minimum of two years of demonstrable work experience with Oracle Linux
• Demonstrable work experience with migration trajectories, concretely substantiated in the CV and/or cover letter with period, role, own contribution, and result, including phasing out, replacing, modernizing, or future-proofing existing applications, services, databases, or system integrations.
• Spring Framework, including:
• Spring Boot
• Spring Security
• Spring Data
• Spring MVC
• RESTful APIs and system integrations, including experience with:
• Designing, developing, and managing RESTful APIs
• Spring Boot and/or Spring MVC for API development
• OpenAPI/Swagger for API contracts and documentation
• OAuth2/OIDC and JWT for authentication and authorization
• Versioning of APIs
• Error handling and consistent error responses
• Backwards compatibility during changes
• Integrations with existing applications and external systems
• CI/CD pipelines and tooling, such as:
• Jenkins
• Maven
• GitHub Actions
• GitHub CI/CD
• GitLab CI/CD
• Containerization and deployment, such as:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Scripting and automation, such as:
• Bash
• Shell
• Groovy
• Front-end development, including:
• Modern front-end frameworks
• HTML/CSS
• JSP
• Search technologies, such as:
• Lucene
• Solr
• Elasticsearch
• You have experience with Zorginstituut-specific or comparable CMS, platform, and application landscapes, including:
• FK platform
• Integration with Documentum as a content management system
• ProZIN platform
• ProZIN content management system.
• The Zorginstituut advises the Minister of VWS on the content of the insured package;
• The Zorginstituut ensures clear explanations of insured care;
• The Zorginstituut promotes the quality, affordability, and accessibility of care by identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement in healthcare;
• The Zorginstituut promotes digital information exchange in healthcare, including by developing information standards;
• The Zorginstituut carries out risk equalization, which means managing and distributing premium money among health insurers and care offices so they can fulfill their insurance obligations;
• The Zorginstituut manages the Health Insurance Fund (Zvf) and the Long-Term Care Fund (Flz) and provides information about healthcare costs.

Project details

• Start: Zo snel mogelijk
• Duration: Verlenging: Onbekend
• Location: Diemen, NL
• Rate: 112-112 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch