Senior Consultant - Sr J2EE Developer

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The Senior Consultant will be part of the IV&V team and will work with product managers, project leads, technical staff and vendors in the fulfillment and execution of the project. They are expected to assess the business needs, acquire product & business process knowledge and use this information in every aspect of the system capability set. This person will need to communicate critical technical decisions, specify requirements and constraints in design, scope the level of architectural effort, assess team execution strength, review delivery and stay synchronized with product portfolio future needs.

Responsible for playing a major role in IV&V tasks of analysis, design and implementation of the large scale, enterprise wide unemployment Insurance system. Should be skilled in analyzing, defining and documenting requirements for data, workflow, conceptual process and interfaces between internal and external systems. Should be experienced in J2EE design of the Enterprise Applications, have an expert knowledge of RUP and UML, have a detailed knowledge of the complete life cycle of software development, and good proficiently with Rational tools. The candidate should be able to cover independently IV&V efforts in design and development of all major layers of J2EE system, including security, messaging, business rules engine and its integration with external systems which include imaging and workflow, content management, IVR and call center, access and identity management, etc.

 The Consultant must be able to understand business objectives, translate them to a technical designs, transition the solution into operational status, build/maintain an estimation model for the integration solution/protocols and assist with integration support/maintenance procedures. The above requires sound Object Oriented Design (OOD), excellent design and programming experience, strong abstraction skills, a sense of urgency and strong documentation/diagramming skills.

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Required Qualifications


Minimum 5 yrs experience in the following:

- Component software development including: J2EE, EJB 2.0, JSP and Struts/Spring MVC

- Web and J2EE Application server environments with the focus on Sun Java Platform.

- Fine tuning and optimization of the servers and applications

- Knowledge of security: standards, tools, LDAP, JAAS, Access and Identity management

- UML modeling and design patterns.

- Ability to lead design review sessions and activities.

- Experience with data modeling and design, database performance fine tuning and optimization with the focus on Oracle 10g

- Skilled with system architecture: load balancing, clustering, networking, redundancy, fail over and high availability of application and data

- Experience with XML, XML Schema, SOA and web services (required).

- Demonstrated experience applying the above technologies to the development of n-Tier web-based applications.

- Experience with imaging and workflow (preferably using FileNet)

- Goal and deadline oriented.

- Prior consulting experience preferred

- Monimum of 5 years experience in doing architecture design and system development.

- Senior level / expert in industry standard software development methodology.

- Senior level / expert at complete lifecycle (SDLC), component based design (CDB) models, UML and RUP.

- Senior level / expert in service protocol not limited to: web services, messaging (MQ), flat, batch, data queuing.

- Strong and effective managerial tasks including organizational, interpersonal, leadership, teamwork, and mentoring skills.

- Ability to interact with all levels of management.

- Ability to work independently and in a team environment .

- Excellent organizational, modeling, oral and written communication skills.

- Experience with integration of multiple concurrent projects, work streams and initiatives.Search job listings and apply online at www.jobs-tier.icims.com or visit us at www.tier.com Please refer to job 1359.

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