<p>Database Administration / DBA Technical “Player / Coach” Manager</p><p>Location : Des Moines – HYBRID </p><p>Salary : up to175K++ TOTAL COMPENSATION. $150K+ BONUS + Profit Sharing </p><p>Are you a hands-on database “Player / Coach” Leader who thrives at the intersection of people leadership, platform reliability, and technical problem-solving? We’re seeking a </p><p>Database Administration / DBA Technical “Player / Coach” Manager</p><p>Are you a hands-on database leader who enjoys balancing team leadership with deep technical work? We are seeking a Database Administration / DBA Technical Manager to lead a high-impact enterprise DBA function responsible for the reliability, security, performance, and modernization of critical database platforms.</p><p>This is a visible player/coach role where you will lead and mentor a team of DBAs while also serving as a senior technical expert and escalation point for complex production issues. This is not a sit-back management position. You will be directly involved in troubleshooting, automation, upgrades, migrations, and operational excellence across on-prem/ cloud environments.</p><p>Why join us This is an opportunity to shape database strategy, improve operational maturity, develop talent, and directly influence enterprise reliability and cloud modernization efforts.</p><p>What you will do</p><p>• Lead, coach, and develop a team of database professionals</p><p>• Own the health, availability, and performance of enterprise database environments including SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, MongoDB, and related technologies</p><p>• Establish and maintain standards for security, access controls, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and alerting</p><p>• Remain Hands on technical + Act as the senior escalation point for outages, incidents, root-cause analysis, and critical support needs</p><p>• Lead upgrades, patching, migrations, modernization initiatives, and cloud adoption efforts with strong implementation and rollback planning</p><p>• Drive database performance improvements through tuning, indexing, query optimization, and capacity planning</p><p>• Advance automation for provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, access administration, and compliance</p><p>• Partner closely with application, infrastructure, cloud, security, architecture, and analytics teams</p><p>• Oversee documentation, operating procedures, vendor relationships, and roadmap planning for database platforms and adjacent data services</p><p>What you bring</p><p>• Experience leading database administration in complex enterprise environments</p><p>• Strong hands-on expertise across multiple database platforms and production support models</p><p>• Database operations, resiliency, modernization, and cloud initiatives</p><p>• Experience with incident, problem, and change management, along with operational governance and documentation</p><p>• Ability to balance technical depth, people leadership, and road mapping </p><p>If you are a technical leader who still enjoys solving complex database challenges, we would love to connect.Direct-hire permanent opportunity with a local Des Moines client. Compensation up to $175K total, including $150K base plus bonus and profit sharing. For immediate and confidential consideration, contact Carrie Danger, SVP, Permanent Placement Team, Iowa Region, or apply directly through the Robert Half website.</p>
<p>** NOTE: This role is Hybrid ONSITE 4 days per week in Des Moines, IA **</p><p><br></p><p>We are looking for a SENIOR Java Software Developer to support banking technology initiatives in Des Moines, Iowa. This Long-term Contract opportunity is ideal for a developer who enjoys building reliable applications across both front-end and back-end environments. The role will focus on creating and enhancing enterprise solutions using modern Java frameworks, Angular, and database-driven services while partnering with teams to deliver scalable results.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Build, enhance, and maintain Java-based applications that support banking operations and business objectives.</p><p>• Develop user-facing features with JavaScript and Angular to deliver responsive and intuitive web experiences.</p><p>• Design and implement backend services using Spring, Spring Boot, and Maven within enterprise application environments.</p><p>• Write, optimize, and troubleshoot SQL and PL/SQL code to support data processing, integration, and application performance.</p><p>• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate functional needs into technical solutions and high-quality software deliverables.</p><p>• Contribute to API development and system integration work using Java-based service frameworks and RESTful design practices.</p><p>• Review application performance, resolve defects, and apply coding best practices to improve reliability and maintainability.</p><p>• Use Excel for analysis, reporting support, or data validation as needed within development and testing activities.</p><p><br></p><p>** NOTE: This role is Hybrid ONSITE 4 days per week in Des Moines, IA **</p>
<p>We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for solutions supporting voluntary benefits products in Urbandale, Iowa. This contract position with potential for a permanent role blends hands-on engineering with architectural ownership, helping deliver secure, scalable platforms that support enrollment, eligibility, billing, premium administration, and partner connectivity. The ideal candidate brings strong software design experience, the ability to guide cross-functional delivery, and a solid understanding of building reliable systems in regulated or benefits-focused environments.</p><p><br></p><p>Anyone with Voluntary Benefits OR Group Policy experience is a huge plus. </p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Direct the design and delivery of applications and integrations that support voluntary benefits offerings, including life, disability, dental, vision, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity products.</p><p>• Shape end-to-end technical approaches for capabilities such as quoting, enrollment processing, eligibility management, underwriting logic, payroll deduction workflows, premium handling, billing functions, and service operations.</p><p>• Collaborate with product leaders, analysts, subject matter experts, quality teams, and operational partners to turn business needs into maintainable technical solutions.</p><p>• Contribute directly to development activities through coding, technical reviews, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and coordination of release efforts.</p><p>• Establish and uphold engineering practices related to architecture standards, reusable patterns, secure development, and code quality.</p><p>• Lead integration planning across internal systems and external partners, including carriers, brokers, payroll providers, enrollment vendors, and third-party administrators.</p><p>• Monitor technical risks, dependencies, and design trade-offs, and present recommendations clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.</p><p>• Support production stability by assisting with incident response, root-cause investigation, and ongoing service improvements.</p><p>• Mentor engineers across the team, encourage strong technical decision-making, and help elevate overall development maturity.</p><p>• Participate in roadmap discussions, estimation, architecture reviews, and technical discovery to support future platform growth.</p>
Position: Senior Software Engineer -- JAVA<br>Location: Des Moines, IA - Hybrid<br>Salary: up to $145K + excellent benefits<br><br>*** For immediate and confidential consideration, please send a message to MEREDITH CARLE on LinkedIn or send an email to me with your resume. My email can be found on my LinkedIn page. ***<br><br>Looking for one of the best mid-sized organizations around within the most financially sound industry. Our client company is uniquely positioned in the market and hires and retains the area's top talent. You will have the opportunity to join the best leaders and teams and do what you love to do, where agility and continuous innovation are cherished.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br> • Collaborating with the development team to create bespoke software solutions.<br> • Offering technical leadership on development initiatives.<br> • Providing mentorship and support to other developers.<br> • Directly collaborating with business partners to ensure quality solutions.<br> • Gain expertise in various technologies and applications to act as the SME.<br><br>Qualifications:<br> • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or 8+ years equivalent work experience.<br> • Proven experience in leading teams and managing personnel.<br> • Proficiency in Java EE, XML, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular 11, Bootstrap, Foundation, Typescript, NodeJS.<br> • Deep understanding of object-oriented design principles, application architecture, and SDLC.<br> • Familiar with automation tools such Gitlab and experience with Agile methodologies.<br> • Financial Services industry experience is a plus.<br><br>*** For immediate and confidential consideration, please send a message to MEREDITH CARLE on LinkedIn or send an email to me with your resume. My email can be found on my LinkedIn page. Also, you may contact me by office: 515-303-4654 or mobile: 515-771-8142. Or one click apply on our Robert Half website. No third party inquiries please. Our client cannot provide sponsorship and cannot hire C2C. ***
<p>JAVA DEVELOPER / JAVA WEB DEVELOPER (Direct Hire) -</p><p>LOCATION: Hybrid Des Moines office, only work onsite 3 days PER WEEK. MUST LIVE IN DES MOINES . CANNOT BE REMOTE.</p><p>NO SPONSORSHIP: NO H1B VISA STATUS, NO F-1 OR OPT. MUST HAVE: EAD, GC GREEN CARD, OR US CITIZEN STATUS. </p><p>LOCATION Des Moines, Iowa Unheard of benefits! Financial Strength and still maturing is this company's technology organization in an developing Agile environment! This is NOT a typical development team.</p><p>*The business asks you to do a new project; you can actually implement it! </p><p>Des Moines location : Mostly Remote position with just 2 days in the office !</p><p>They do things differently and smartly and don't overcomplicate with things that waste time in the development life cycle! This is a Permanent Direct Hire Java Developer position with one of our clients in the Des Moines area up to $120K depending on years of experience.</p><p>This company is looking to ADD multiple Java Developers to their team, MULTIPLE TEAMS TO CHOSE FROM !! You will work for a company who has perfected their application development process and invests in their people with training opportunities and has a culture where you can try new things and work closely with the business in a way that alleviates the typical headaches most Dev Shops have !</p><p>For immediate and confidential consideration on this opportunity, it is best to contact me directly, Carrie Danger, SVP, Permanent Placement Team, Iowa Region at My direct Office: 515-259-6087 or Cell: 515-991-0863, and email resume CONFIDENTIALLY & directly to me. Please find my email address on my LinkedIN profile. You may also ONE CLICK APPLY on our Robert Half Website.</p><p>In this Java Development role you will get the opportunity to run your own projects. This company is looking for candidates who have a passion for development and motivated to learn! As a Java Developer, this is the caliber of company where you can have a Progressive career and you'll get to work in a large development team with internal growth opportunities! (PERM POSITION).</p><p>MID LEVEL JAVA DEVELOPMENT SKILLS</p><p>WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED! </p><p>* Experience with Java Development:</p><p>*Spring Boot / Microservices, Hibernate, Struts is a MUST HAVE:</p><p>* Experience with JavaScript; Angular experience is a plus!</p><p>* Spring experience, HTML5, CSS</p><p>* 2 year or 4 year degree is Preferred (Prefer Computer Science or similar)</p><p>You will be challenged and grow your skills as a Java Web Programmer, you will work in a mid sized team environment where you will get to develop on challenging IT / Technical projects, and be surrounded by Smart and Bright team of Java Developers! This Java Developer position is a permanent direct hire.</p><p>Full time direct hire position- Java Web Programmer - up to 120K plus a 10% bonus. For confidential consideration on this opportunity, it is best to contact me directly, CARRIE DANGER, SVP, Permanent Placement Team, Iowa Region at My direct Office #: 515-259-6087 or Cell: 515-991-0863, and email resume CONFIDENTIALLY & directly to me. Please find my email address / contact Information on my LinkedIN profile. You may also ONE CLICK APPLY on our Robert Half Website.</p>
<p>Multiple Permanent Opportunities – Senior Software Engineers & Software Engineers</p><p>Location: West side of Des Moines, IA – Hybrid Weekly with Flexibility</p><p>Salary: $100,000–$160,000 base + bonus + every Fri close at 3pm.</p><p>For immediate and confidential consideration, please apply & email your resume to Carrie Danger. My email can be found on my LinkedIn page.</p><p>SWE's Wanted – Build, Innovate, Influence</p><p>Remain hands-on, help shape products from concept to deployment, and join a growing engineering team with significant momentum, let's connect.</p><p>A high-growth tech SaaS company is making a major investment in product development and engineering & is hiring multiple Software Engineers & Senior Software Engineers.</p><p>• Senior Software Engineers: $130K–$160K + bonus</p><p>• Software Engineers: $100K–$120K + bonus, Pivotal growth stage where your work will directly influence products, customers, & the future direction of the business.</p><p>Why This Opportunity Stands Out</p><p>• Newly created positions driven by significant product & R&D investment</p><p>• Engineering organization doubling in size</p><p>• Modern stack focused on React, TypeScript, AWS, & CI/CD</p><p>• End-to-end product ownership and meaningful technical influence</p><p>• Fast-moving, entrepreneurial company with strong visibility/ impact</p><p>What You’ll Be Working On</p><p>You’ll help build and enhance a suite of SaaS and data-driven products used across a large, established industry. Engineers work closely with product and business leaders to solve real-world challenges through scalable software, cloud technologies, and modern web applications.</p><p>KEYS:</p><p>• React</p><p>• TypeScript</p><p>• JavaScript</p><p>• AWS (EC2, Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS)</p><p>• CI/CD Pipelines</p><p>• GitHub Actions</p><p>• Modern SaaS Architecture</p><p>Software Engineer</p><p>• 2+ years of software development experience</p><p>• Experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript</p><p>• AWS exposure</p><p>Senior Software Engineer</p><p>• 5+ years of software development experience</p><p>• Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and AWS</p><p>• Experience building scalable, high-performance applications</p><p>• Strong ownership & collaboration skills; ability to thrive on a small team</p><p>Additional Must-Have Skills for the Senior Full Stack Role</p><p>This role is full stack, but leans more heavily toward the back end.</p><p>• React: Experience modernizing existing applications and helping rewrite a core product front end in React, build new features</p><p>• SQL: Strong API work, stored procedures, and experience supporting tech debt</p><p>• .NET / C#: Required</p><p>• Node.js: Required; used on both front end and back end in newest applications</p><p>• Azure migration experience: Highly desirable, especially moving code from on-prem to Azure</p><p>For immediate and confidential consideration, please apply & email your resume to Carrie Danger. My email can be found on my LinkedIn page. You may also contact me at 515-259-6087 or apply in one click on our Robert Half website.</p>