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Sr. J2EE Tech Lead/Architect

Department:
Location:
  Financial Services
  Houston, TX

Sr. J2EE Tech Lead/Architect Profile:

 Start date:  7-1-2010

Duration: 6 months

Location:  Houston, TX

Sr. J2EE Tech Lead with experience (6+ year of Tech Lead/Architect role) in architecting and developing B2B/B2C apps.

  • Ensure to deliver the good quality code and team is building as per specification/requirement; translate the functional specification in to technical specification.
  • Ability to work and deliver the high level and low level technical design documents based on the business requirement and functional spec. Ability to build the prototypes and POCs.
  • Ability to integrate the B2B/B2C application with Portal App.  Experience with Portal technology is plus.
  • Should be able to estimate the work based on the requirements and coordinates to complete the work within the estimated effort, lead the group of developers/ASAs.
  • Improves enterprise IT strategies and practices for client engagement, project methodology, architectural design, application/infra migration, development team evolution, and IT support.
  • Aligns IT with business strategies through agile methodologies that leverage business and technical architectures, information workflow, use case analysis, and risk assessment to verify fitness-for-purpose.
  • Stabilizes ad-hoc support operations by clearly defining the boundaries and responsibilities of project and operational teams, while progressively injecting fitness checks earlier into the project lifecycle.
  • Facilitates realistic project planning based upon time-boxed delivery of incremental functionality based on use cases, prioritized by business criticality, and driven by technical and organizational risk.
  • Revitalizes software engineering teams through the introduction of agile best practices, including team programming, test-driven development (JUnit), repeatable builds (Ant), standardized environments, automated integration, team testing, and continuous customer collaboration.

 Sr. J2EE Tech Lead/Architect Required Technical Skill Set:

Good experience on following:

  • J2EE applications and Application Servers. (Websphere/Weblogic/JBoss)
  • Strong UI design.
  • Experience in Architecting Search / Discovery, Content Management systems for high volume content.
  • XML processing, Query, transformation technologies
  • Indexing, search and retrieval technologies using multiple products / frameworks.
  • Coordinating and working with multiple teams specifically in multi-vendor environments.
  • Migration of legacy J2EE apps to newer technologies.
  • Design Principles/Design Patterns/UML
  • Spring MVC/IOC, Struts 1.x and 2.x, Google Web Toolkit, AJAX.
  • EJB/JSP/HTML/DHTML/Servlets/XMLs (XSD, XSLT, and DTD) and Java Script.
  • WSAD/RAD 6.x & 7.x/ECLIPSE 3.x/SourceContol tools.
  • Oracle/SQLServer.
  • MVC framework.
  • Project Life Cycle Methodology.
  • Webservices/SOAP/AXIS/JAX-RPC/REST-calls, Integration of apps using multiple protocols with MIDDLEWARE.
  • Development Methodologies (Agile, SCRUM, SDLC, and Test Driven Development)
  • Good communication and organizational skills.

Works with a sense of urgency / takes responsibility and very responsive

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please email your resume in MS Word, RTF, HTML, or ASCII text format to the address below. If you wish to enclose a cover letter, please include it in the body of your email message.

52606-CJB-0@logica.hrmdirect.com

 

This is an opportunity to join the Logica with North American headquarters in Houston, Texas, servicing our North American clients.

Logica
3700 West Sam Houston Parkway South
Suite 500
Houston, TX 77042

Logica is an EEO Employer.