Responsibilities: 

• You will be for part of a development team, designing, developing and implementing monitoring solutions that provide visibility into the health and performance of applications and systems
• Work on the analysis, architecture, design and coding of complex mission-critical systems
• Collaborate with other engineers to develop flexible cost effective solutions to tactical and strategic business requirements
• Formally specify and document detailed design using object oriented design paradigm together with the application of well-understood design patterns
• Code application and system components covering one or more of the following areas: user interface, business functions, database, security and others
• Implement automated tests into a test framework that verify the application and system
• Provide support to the QA and Production Support Teams
• Serve as a point contact for offshore development teams
• Work directly with Architects, System Analysts and QA team leads to manage the technical aspects of a development pipeline
• Coach & mentor less senior team members

Requirements: 

• Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines
• At least 8 years of professional experience developing object oriented software
• Must have an extensive background in developing fault-tolerant back-end applications including multi-process and multi-threaded architectures
• Must have a solid background in object oriented analysis (OOA) and object oriented design (OOD) techniques using formal methods.
• Experience in the application of various object oriented design patterns is required. The capability of assessing and rationalizing design trade-offs is essential.
• 5+ years of Java object oriented programming experience is required.
• Expert level Java programming skills.
• SQL programming experience is preferred.
• 5 +years WebSphere knowledge (6.X and higher) is required
• 5+ years Java / J2EE experience: EJB, MDB, JMS, RMI, JNDI, JDBC, Servlet, JSP, JSTL, Custom Tags, Struts, Tiles experience is required
• 2+ years experience in AJAX and/or similar frameworks is required
• 5+ years experience in developing Unix-based software (Linux preferred) including scripting (Shell, Perl, etc.) is required
• 5+ years experience with industry standard tools and frameworks such as Ant, JUnit, log4j and others is a highly desired.
• Experience in UML and/or similar modeling tools are required.
• Experience with Clearcase and Clearquest is preferred.
• Experience in various Software Development Life Cycle methodologies is pre-requisite
• Strong RDBMS knowledge- DB2 UDB or Oracle is required
• Experience in conducting peer code reviews with team members
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills, and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way are a pre-requisite.
• Strong skills in implementing & enforcing best practices are prerequisite
• Ability to multitask, and have positive attitude in stressful situations
• Ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs
• Ability to understand systems from the enterprise-level view to the code

Experience in following areas is a strong plus

• Experience in JPA
• Experience MQ or SIB
• Hands on experience on IDEs such as IBM RAD or Eclipse
• Hands on Performance Tuning Experience
• Experience in LDAP and/or Active Directory