Innovations technological

Title:  Java Designer/Architect

 

Duration: 6 months

 

 

Location:  NYC - CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO NYC!!

 

Detailed Job Description:

The Senior Web Architect will be responsible for a lead role in the design, testing and maintenance of internal and external web-based applications.  Primary areas of responsibility include customer self-service applications and web-based interfaces into our subscriber management system for use by customer care agents. 

 

 

Minimum Qualifications:  

·         Bachelor Degree

·         10 years of relevant experience

 

 Duties and Responsibilities: 

·         Show enthusiasm and a sense of ownership for the system and its components that are vital to the success of the business.

·         Model system behaviors using best practice methods for communicating architecture and design.

·         Interpret business requirements and accurately reflect these requirements in the design.

·         Present design solutions to the business and development teams.

·         Ensure designs are consistent with the existing architecture.

·         Ensure timely and accurate delivery of assignments.

·         Follow high level of standards across all levels of design work.

·         Work closely with other areas of the company including business teams and other design/development teams.

·         Contribute to the specification and transition to development of unit, system, integration, stress and user acceptance testing.

·         Design to performance requirements in an effort to ensure that all applications are highly scalable and can support high volumes of traffic.

·         Anticipate and resolve technical problems and solve difficult challenges.

·         Recommend and promote new technologies and best practices to enable us to better support our customers.

·         Recommend tools and utilities for design, development, testing and management of web-based applications.

·         Perform code reviews to ensure that code is compliant with design and coding standards.

 

Requirements and General Skills:

·       Good public speaking and presentation skills

·       Interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels

·       Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·       Ability to work independently and in a team environment

·       Ability to project a professional image over the phone and in person

·       Commitment to "internal client" and customer service principles

·       Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects

·       Strong organizational skills and attention to details

·       Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multi-task, and work under shifting deadlines in a fast paced environment

·       Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

 

Technical Skills:

·         10+ years Java, J2EE, JSP development experience.

·         5+ years Java/J2EE design experience

·         5+ years MVC Framework experience: Struts2, Spring MVC or similar

·         Strong Web 2.0 experience essential, including use of OO Javascript, AJAX, DHTML and JS libraries (eg jQuery/DOJO/ExtJs etc)

·         HTML, CSS, strong understanding of browser compatibility issues.

·         XML, XSL, processing/parsing.

·         Candidate must have strong structured methodology experience

·         Strong J2EE/OO Design patterns experience

·         Experience with implementing common design patterns

·         Webservice design experience: SOAP Request/Response handling, authentication, Axis2.

·         Use of Unified Modeling Language (UML) to conceive a design

·         Knowledge of web security standards and how to apply them

  

Preferred Skills:

·       SQL and common database knowledge (Oracle 10g)

·       Basic UNIX experience.

·       Source code control systems: eg CVS

·       Build processes and Ant/Maven.

·       Experience with large scale, high volume web-based applications.

·       Experience with internationalization.