Innovations technological

Location: Palo Alto, California

Remote work allowed: Y / N: N – Onsite Only

Number of Positions: 3

Type of Hire: Consulting

Length of Contract: 12+ Months

Start Date: ASAP

Rate: Depends on Experience / Open

Skill and Role Summary:

This position requires strong technical experience of software engineering principles. Middleware and Integration Services is responsible for much of the client's  Identity Management strategy for students, faculty, staff, and University affiliates, which includes privilege and account management, authorization, and workgroup, organization and course provisioning.   The group manages a set of central Registries and additionally supports a suite of Java developed applications and background processes which facilitate enterprise integration.

Responsibilities:

•         Participate in component level design and planning process, utilizing knowledge of object oriented programming to translate design requirements and project specifications into robust implementations including database transaction processing.

•         Ability to design and develop in all layers of the application.

•         Develop technical specifications and perform implementations in a timely fashion.

•         Perform unit testing and adhere to 'test first' agile development methodology practices.

•         Perform application builds in the development environment as needed using agreed upon build tools and methods.

•         Ensure prompt resolution to bug reports.

•         Adhere to design, coding, and build standards.

•         Maintain and support developed systems.

•         Provide assessment of impact for change requests and technical queries in assigned areas.

•         Contribute to development planning through task breakdown, estimation and dependency identification.

•         Conduct in-depth analysis to solve problems, make recommendations and/or to discover new approaches to system design and implementation.

•         Ability to assume position as a team lead on a technical project in collaboration with the Technical Manager.

•         Keep abreast of industry technology and development standards and contribute to defining a strategy to migrate to emerging standards as they become viable.

•         Set team standards in applicable area of technical domain and expertise.

Experience:

•         10+ years as an IT professional with 7+ years of experience as a software engineer/developer using third generation languages such as Java, C, C++

•         Experience with J2EE, Java, XML, XSLT, HTML, JSPs, JavaScript and Servlets.

•         Demonstrated knowledge of software engineering using object oriented concepts and languages, preferably Java, in multi-vendor, multi-platform environment.

•         Understanding of RDBMS modeling and concepts; ability to implement database transaction processing (e.g. rollbacks, 2 phase commits)

•         Knowledge and experience with concurrent programming.

•         Knowledge of all aspects of the software development process, product life cycles, and quality assurance practices.

•         Knowledge of/or experience with agile development methodology.

•         Experience in industry-standard engineering process and methods.

•         Experience with Ant or similar build tools.

•         Experience with database retrieval, updates using SQL.

•         Strong knowledge of Internet standards and protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, various authentication methods, SOAP, XMLRPC, etc.)

•         Thorough understanding of version control, software configuration and release management practices

•         Familiarity with Unix or other host-based server environments

•         Strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills

•         Experience leading technical projects

•         Knowledge or experience with distributed computing concepts, standards like CORBA or EJB, APIs like JDBC, JMS or RMI

•         BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering preferred

KNOWLEDGE:

•         Solid understanding of the principles and advantages of Service-oriented architecture.

•         Through understanding of version control, software configuration and release management practices.

•         Knowledge and experience with concurrent programming.

•         Knowledge of all aspects of the software development process, product life cycles, and quality assurance practices.

•         Demonstrated knowledge of using object oriented concepts and languages, specifically Java, in a multi-vendor, multi-platform environment.