Java Lead/Architect

JAVA LEAD/ARCHITECT

Pittsburgh, PA

1 YEAR+ CONTRACT

This consultant will serve as a member of Business Intelligence's Architecture Team, and should have understanding of the current technical architectures including constraints related to platforms and standards in order to establish the role as a key solutions expert.

THE CONSULTANT SHOULD HAVE APPLICATION INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

- Manufacturing functional domain
- Application integration
- Web and application security
- Performance, quality, and operational aspects

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Help define the technical reference architecture, ensuring that it meets the business requirements, cost constraints and performance goals of the application
- Ensure that the technical architecture is consistent with the client's long-term direction
- Be involved in the application and technical architecture analysis, design, and implementation to ensure that the product fulfills the requirements
- Work with the integration solution architects to deliver high level and detailed architecture design and documentation
- Identify the technical environment required to support the application architecture reviews
- Define application programming guidelines and standards
- Collaborate with other architects to ensure that the products and components work together to meet the objectives and performance goals as defined in the requirements
- Troubleshoot, debug and solve technology integration and performance problems

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS:

- 4 year college degree and a minimum of 8 years overall IT experience
- 3 or more years working in the areas of system architecture, component design, implementation and deployment processes

PERSONAL SKILLS:

- Excellent communication ability
- Ability to independently research and solve complex technical issues
- Ability to meet targeted deadlines with minimal supervision
- Ability to follow and support corporate standards for design, development, implementation and documentation.
- Ability and communicate effectively with clients, with team members and with management to work on functional and technical requirements
- Ability to provide effective mentoring to team members and other technical staff when required

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED:

- Sound knowledge in J2EE, Web Services development, and SOA
- Hands-on experience with IBM MQ Series and WebSphere Suite (App Server, Portals, Integration, etc.)
- Sound knowledge of JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Servlets, JDBC, JNDI, Tiles, JAXB, JDOM, ESB, BPEL, AJAX, XML
- Experience implementing at least one SOA-related project successfully
- Experience implementing the automated deployment of the applications from the source
- Ability to perform analysis and design software systems using industry standard modelling tools
- Proficient in the use of software development tools and techniques in software projects
- Working knowledge of mobile web technologies (HTML5, CSS3)

ADDITIONAL SKILLS/QUALITIES NOT REQUIRED BUT WOULD BE A PLUS:

- Evidence of prior leadership position in implementation of a corporate level and successful SOA architecture
- Cross-platform design and development experience
- Experience with Architecture Review process, design of large systems, creation of technical requirements documents and major decision documents would be a plus.