Responsibilities:
• Acts independently and as part of a team to translate business and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested, and deployed applications.
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Individual should have a proven delivery track record of on time delivery
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Individual must be independent and not require a lot of direction. They should have a positive attitude and be a good team player.
• Individual should have maturity in assessing the urgency of an issue and understanding proper escalation along with anticipating issues and risks.
• Ensures compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies.
• Responsible for conducting software analysis, programming, testing and debugging
• Provides unique insight in the analysis of customer business requirements that may cross multiple functional areas and/or multiple technical platforms and understand the broad strategic implications.
Qualifications
•3 to 5 years of experience in designing and developing Java/J2EE/Portal applications,
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (Oracle/Sqlserver/MySQL and/or IBM DB2)
• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent
• Web application server side and middleware development experience delivering Java/J2EE applications using technologies; Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JMS ,Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices
• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture
• Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required.
• Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.
Core Technical Skills:
· Java/J2EE Technologies (JSP, Servlets / filters / Interceptors, JNDI, JMS)
· Spring Boot / Micro services
· REST and SOAP Based web services
· IBatis/Hibernate/SQL/Oracle
· REST API, Postman, Swagger, OAuth
· WebSeal
· AWS/ECS
· Jenkins/CI CD
· Junit , Mockito or Easy Mock, TDD
· Git
· Markup Languages like XML and JSON
· Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery a plus
· Front End frameworks like React a plus
This position can be based in any of the following locations:
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