Java J2EE Expert - Brussels - (French or Dutch Speaker)

JAVA EXPERT - BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

6-month contract

Day rate: €400

Spoken French OR Dutch required

MISSION/PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Develop of new features and BU rules in the form of user stories prioritized in a backlog (which contain at least 2 years work) for one new application created one year ago: Birdy.

Technologies used within Birdy

- Back End:
- J2EE (Java7), with EJB 3.0, including MDB (and JMS with MQ)
- REST/JSON web services
- State machine & Rule Engine.
- Front End: AngularJS/Bootstrap.
- DB: Oracle (with JPA and JDBC/SQL)
- JEE Application Server: Jboss5 (soon Jboss7)
- Dependency mgt: Maven.
- Continuous deployment: Jentkins.
- Methodology (Agile/Scrum): Jira Agile & Confluence (Wiki)

Birdy Project Goal

Plan variable demands (aka parcels and other products) in dynamic rounds, in order to improve the way the parcels are sorted, prepared and distributed.

Based on that, provide building blocks such:

- A Web video coding feature to increase the number of planned demands. (video-coders)
- A ScanToSort feature (with scanner and LabelPrinter) for the sorters
- A system to reintegrate parcels with unrecognized addresses (Ranking of NO_MATCHes) for the Team Leads.
- A routing list for the postman, loaded on its Mobi
- GPX files the Team Lead can automatically upload as from Birdy.
- An Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) for the end client (Notification)
- A dashboard on Demands and Rounds for the Team Leads.
- A monitoring for Admin users (Central)

ROLE/TASKS :

You will be in charge of:

- Implementing new user stories, based on a functional analysis and use cases
- Use of bpost's standard coding conventions, frameworks and tools
- Day to day correction and bug fixing of developed features
- Unit tests and integration testing
- Technical documentation when necessary.

TECHNICAL SKILLS :

MUST HAVE'S (EXPERTISE):

- J2EE: EJB 3.0, including MDB (and JMS), JEE Application Server (like JBoss, GlassFisch, or WebLogic)
- Persistence: SQL, JDBC, JPA, Hibernate, JTA, Oracle
- Object-oriented concepts
- Domain Driven Design
- Java programming (Java7)
- XML (SAX, DOM, DTD, XSD, XSLT )
- IDE: Eclipse
- Subversion (SVN)
- Maven or Ivy (dependency management)
- Unit testing with JUnit, DBUnit, mocking frameworks

SHOULD HAVE'S : (INTERMEDIATE)

- Web services (SOAP/XML, WSDL, Axis, RESTEASY/JSON)
- Jira Agile & Confluence (Wiki)

NICE TO HAVE'S : (BASICS)

- Web Client: Angular JS/Bootstrap, JSP and Servlets, HTML 5, JavaScript, AJAX,
- UML modelling
- Apache, (Tomcat)

SOFT SKILLS :

- Self-motivated
- Team player
- Enough self-confidence and experience so that you need very little supervision

LANGUAGES :

MUST HAVE'S :

- Fluent spoken & written English is mandatory.
- Dutch and/or French intermediate understanding.