Senior Websphere Portal Specialist

SENIOR WEBSPHERE PORTAL SPECIALIST
NEW SOUTH WALES - SYDNEY.
CONTRACT

Provision of IBM WebSphere Portal Development Services

1. Work with the BA team to review the Business Requirements Documentation for the project.
2. Assist in the finalization of High Level Software Design Specification document through clarifications and reviews, and receiving a full handover of the scope and requirements for the projects listed below. Enterprise Architect and Microsoft Visio are used to produce the Architectural design.
3. Prepare detailed design specifications for the scope finalized in the SDS. This includes prototyping any design issues that arise during detailed design phase and proving a solution to work, then capturing the design in the detailed sections of the SDS.
4. Develop IBM WebSphere Portal 7/JEE/J2SE based applications including use of standard open source frameworks such as spring, hibernate, commons etc. Candidates should have IBM Webshere Portal experience (at least 2 years) but those with strong JEE experience will also be considered.
5. Build and run Unit Tests for all modules to ensure quality code is written using junit for code related tests and selenium for browser based tests.
6. Write a Bill of Materials (BOM) or Application Release Briefcase (ARB) to inform staff how to release the application to the testing environments.
7. Bug analysis and fixing.
8. Deployments and updates to the ARB.
9. Write an Operational Support Manual to allow operational teams to deploy the application into production and support all operations the application provides.

Required skills:
Experience with WebSphere Portal (preferably 7), WebSphere Application Server, installation and troubleshooting.
At least 10 years overall development experience, at least 2 years WebSphere Portal experience
Development experience with Rational Application Developer
Experience with Portlet development (including JSR286, Spring Portlet MVC, JSF, AJAX, Dojo, REST, JSON, WSRP)
Experience with developing Portal Themes (preferably version 7.0)
Database design and integration with Portal/WebSphere
Jython, XMLAccess, Maven.

*Eligibility to work in the required country is necessary