Senior Solution Engineer JAVA

Senior Solution Engineer JAVA

Randstad Professionals are one of the leading recruitment companies in Switzerland and with a dedicated IT contracting team in Zurich, we are excited to help you in your search. We focus on finding the best contracts for the best contractors.

Currently we are looking for a Senior Solution Engineer JAVA to join our client's team in Giubiasco.

The role is providing JAVA solution architect and senior solution engineer functions for the Lombard ACP Model (LAM), Concentration Risk (C-Risk) and PB Loan Stress Testing applications, consisting of a high-profile global web application.

Key Deliverables

- analyzes functional and non-functional requirements in order to design a suitable application architecture in accordance with the company guidelines and the department vision and to provide requirement engineers with feedback
- considers alternative solutions between the architectural boundaries of overall architecture and domain architecture, as well as the application relevant interfaces to other applications and documents the decisions and corresponding reasons
- ensures that the solution fits the existing application landscape in agreement with the corresponding functional architect and central architecture team
- takes full responsibility for the production and maintenance of the Software Architecture Document (SAD).
- co-ordinates solution engineering project activities in respect to necessary work products related to the application documentation and project documentation (eg effort estimations, detailed work plans)
- designs solutions taking into consideration economic efficiency, quality, feasibility and alternative solutions within the project activities
- supports requirement engineers to design the domain object model
- translates, interprets and implements the domain roadmap in his project
- defines and conducts reviews of relevant artifacts including code
- acts as technical representation (with the knowledge of the current technology standards), advisor and contact point for a project and ensures the relevant know-how is properly shared
- cooperates closely with the Functional Architect, Central Architecture, Software Engineers, the IT Owner, the Requirements Engineer, the Test Manager, Test Engineers and the IT Project Manager
- has an in-depth understanding of the Java and JavaEE technologies
- assists other solution engineers in the implementation of the business logic requirements in JavaEE
- supports production operations analysing reported issues, inspecting logs and performance figures

Additional duties and responsibilities

- Shows ability to be an effective team member working closely with colleagues from multiple teams and disciplines, bringing added value to the team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Shows understanding of good project planning practices and team management processes

Qualifications

- 8 years minimum working in IT in the solution development area
- 4 years working as Solution Architect
- Experience in the design, and implementation of multi-tier application platforms
- Ability to evaluate different architecture models/patterns
- Good knowledge of Java/JavaEE development platforms and associated frameworks/platforms (EJB 3, JPA 2, JSF, Facelets, JMS)
- Advanced UML knowledge and related tools (eg EnterpriseArchitect)
- In depth knowledge of multi-layered architectures, design patterns, architecture patterns, integration solutions
- Experience in development, roll-out and maintenance of complex applications
- Strong communication skills and ability to deal effectively with people face to face and over the phone across different cultures and time zones (off-shore)
- Responsive to changing requirements and priorities
- Strong negotiation skills, both with internal as well as external clients
- Ability to produce and discuss presentations to Senior Management
- In-depth knowledge of Eclipse,Subversion
- Oracle 11g and related tools (eg PL/SQL Developer)
- Weblogic server 9.x/10.x knowledge
- JUnit and Continuous Integration solutions
- Fluent written and spoken English

Preferred qualifications/experience:

- Experience working in Credit Domain of Banking Industry
- Experience working within a Matrix-managed environment
- Experience working in international projects
- Experience in application development projects run according to CMMI standards
- German and/or Italian language skills

Whether this role is the right fit or you would like to see if there are others that do, our dedicated and expert team is looking forward to hearing from you.

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