Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead on Java Projects, including requirements gathering, design, development, and testing
• Produce high quality, modular, reusable JEE code that incorporates coding best practices and serves as an example for less experienced developers
• Accurately report issues and status to project management
• Assist/Mentor junior developers

Required Experience/Skills
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Candidates should have completed at least five full professional software engineering projects across multiple platforms and have acquired the following skillsets:

• Core Java (JDK 1.6+)
• JEE expertise, including JSP/Servlet, JDBC, JMS
• Extensive experience with software design fundamentals and design patterns
• Proficiency with web languages, including HTML and JavaScript
• Computer networking and Unix fundamentals
• Understanding of UML diagrams
• Experience with software design, project management, and implementation tools, such as ANT, Maven, JUnit, log4J, etc
• Understanding of Service Oriented Architectures and Web Service architectures
• Experience with open source frameworks such as Struts, Spring, Axis, Velocity, etc
• Significant experience with tuning and refactoring code and assessing the impact of architectural decisions on performance and scalability
• Experience with deploying, configuring and tuning common application servers and packages (JBoss, WebLogic or WebSphere platforms)
• Experience with Relational Database modeling and experience creating advanced SQL queries / procedures

Nice to Have

• Alternate scripting languages such as Perl, PHP
• Strong enterprise integration experience, including experience with Middleware solutions
• Experience with a major CMS package: Percussion, Day or Java-based enterprise CMS
• Experience with integrating with Cold Fusion systems
• Subversion SVN experience (branching, merging, etc.)
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux platforms
• Experience with a Major or JEE-based Enterprise Search Engine (Fast, Autonomy, Solr)