Senior Engineer - IT

Job Description:

Qualifications:

Responsibilities:

• Acts independently and as part of a team to translate business and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested, and deployed applications.
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Individual should have a proven delivery track record of on time delivery
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Individual must be independent and not require a lot of direction.  They should have a positive attitude and be a good team player.
• Individual should have maturity in assessing the urgency of an issue and understanding proper escalation along with anticipating issues and risks.
• Ensures compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies.
• Responsible for conducting software analysis, programming, testing and debugging
• Provides unique insight in the analysis of customer business requirements that may cross multiple functional areas and/or multiple technical platforms and understand the broad strategic implications.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in designing and developing Java/J2EE/Portal applications,
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (Oracle/Sqlserver/MySQL and/or IBM DB2/PostGres)
• BE Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent
• Web application server side and middleware development experience delivering Java/J2EE applications using technologies; Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, JMS, React
• Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices
• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture
• Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required.
• Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.

Core Technical Skills:

• Java/J2EE Technologies (JSP, Servlets / filters / Interceptors, JNDI, JMS)
• Spring MVC/Spring Portlet MVC/ Spring Boot
• REST and SOAP Based web services(CXF, AXIS or Spring web REST implementation)
• WebSphere Portal/Portlets
• IBatis/SQL/Oracle
• REST API, Postman, Swagger, OAuth
• WebSeal
• AWS/ECS
• Jenkins/CI CD
• Junit, Mockito or Easy Mock, TDD
• Git (Pull requests, branching)
• Markup Languages like XML and JSON
• Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery a plus
• Front End frameworks like React a plus

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

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