Java Developer Contract

My client a leading technology multinational based in Cork has an immediate requirement for a number of Java Developers to join their team. This is an initial 6 month contract and you will be working with a large, highly skilled team on a critical project. You will be expected to contribute to design and implementation decisions, take feedback constructively and work towards the common goals of quality project delivery under aggressive time lines. You will be responsible for writing Functional and Technical Designs, as well as generate code and unit tests. Knowledge and experience with test-driven design and disciplined development methodology is essential; this expressly includes generation of unit tests for all business relevant code you generate.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

- Expertise in Java and XML & EDI Document standards
- Spring Core, Spring Web Services, Spring Data
- Experience with a servlet container eg Tomcat, resin
- Enterprise Integration Platforms (ESB or EAI platforms)
- Practicing TDD using Junit, EasyMock or equivalent frameworks
- Spring Batch and/or Spring Integration
- 2 years experience with JMS and experience using it with Spring a plus
- Database Experience and Hibernate (ORM)
- Strong understanding of GoF Design Patterns, Enterprise Application Patterns ad/or Sun's J2EE Patterns and anti-patterns
- Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns
- Unix/Linux Experience

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS BUT NON ESSENTIAL:

- Agile methodology experience - SCRUM
- Experience working with a caching technology eg Gemfire, SQLFire, ehcache, coherent, terracotta.
- Experience working with ERP systems especially SAP & Oracle
- Knowledge of Hyperic, Groovy and Grails, ActiveMQ, Actional
- Experience or knowledge of Eclipse based IDE's - STS, CVS, Subversion and Maven