Senior Web Engineer

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With annual revenues of $10 billion, we have more than 30,000 employees and serve over 350,000 customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings. Serving customers through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery. Thermo Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Fisher Scientific provides a complete portfolio of laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies and services used in healthcare, scientific research, safety and education. Together, we offer the most convenient purchasing options to customers and continuously advance our technologies to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, enhance value for customers and fuel growth for shareholders and employees alike. All of our employees share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement. Our ability to grow year after year is driven by our ability to attract, develop and retain world-class people who will thrive in our environment and share in our desire to improve mankind by enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. If you share in our values and if you're looking for an employer who is strongly committed to developing talent and rewarding achievement, come grow with us at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Job Description Senior Web Engineer Position Summary: This position will work with the Enterprise Architect and eBusiness Development Team to develop and manage web initiatives and complex technical projects. Must be able to translate business needs into effective technical solutions using core eBusiness and web capabilities and other state of the art technologies. Responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of web systems and services that support the company’s E-Commerce business objectives. Manages and ensuring ongoing production and technical support, incorporating appropriate security and system benchmarking policies and procedures.  Ability to lead small teams enhancing the e-commerce platform.  Job Functions: 1. Designs and develops eBusiness related applications to meet user requirements. 2. Designs and implements the components required for complex application features and multiple projects. These activities include defining, architecting, coding, testing, debugging, and deployment to support application systems. 3. Creates methodologies in development and implementation of eBusiness applications. 4. Produces detailed functional specifications, requirements analysis, design specifications, proposals, statements of work and work estimates.5. Prepares estimates and develops project plans. 6. Suggests technical alternatives and makes recommendations to internal customers the most effective and efficient automated approach.7. Diagnoses technical issues and resolve. 8. Monitors development in Web-related technologies, oversee and participate in the evaluation, selection, acquisition, installation, maintenance, and operation of Web-related technologies and emerging, state-of-the-art tools and technologies. 9. Researches and implements technological improvements to streamline processes.10. Manages communication between internal customers and various functional groups. 11. Provides technical consultation and guidance to other IT groups and junior developers to ensure completeness and compliance with established standards.12. Participates in vendor evaluations and provides recommendations.13. Interviews, selects, develops, mentors and evaluates performance of staff. 14. Works across many levels in the organization to develop specific objective for Web sites and serves as a primary force for implementing the technical strategies necessary to reach Company objectives. 15. Works effectively as a team member both within and across the Company to promote and integrate E-Commerce services through communication, cooperation and collaboration.Required Skills: 1. Must have superior Java and J2EE expertise. Prior experience with and detailed knowledge of J2EE Best Practices and be up to date on the very latest J2EE and related specifications and standards.2. Comfortable doing needs / requirements analysis and recommending cost effective and justifiable solutions.3. Expertise with J2EE architectures, design patterns, and complete application development lifecycle; mastery of J2EE, EJB, JMS, JSP, and Java Servlets; strong proficiency in ANT, Application Servers, IBM Websphere, XML and Unix; working knowledge of UML modeling techniques, JDBC, SQL, RDBMS’s and Struts preferred4. Familiarity with methodologies, frameworks and extensive SDLC: RUP-Rational Unified Process, EAI (webMethods), Content Management Solutions, Harvest.5. Strong problem solving and troubleshooting abilities 6. Experience working with relational database systems including Oracle.7. Performance tuning expertise with J2EE applications8. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively with different levels of management, as well as both business and technical departments. Detail oriented. Strong project/time management skills Solid understanding of diverse environments and components - mainframe, Unix, Windows, database, networks, etc.Education: BachelorsJob Level: Experienced