Senior Java Developer

Background

Do you see yourself as a key team member of one of the world's most successful ICT Services and Solutions companies?

We Deliver ICT-based business solutions to customers in 70 countries worldwide. We are growing quickly and have a number of exciting new positions to challenge the very best Solution Architects. We help organisations in Ireland and around the world achieve their goals through the innovative use of ICT. From hardware to software, from business process consulting to engineering services.



Job Purpose for a Senior Java Developer

We are looking for a Senior Java Software Developer. The candidate must have at least 8 years solid  Java industry experience using Java based technologies and must have good software development skills and experience working all stages of the software development life cycle. The ideal candidate would be technically rounded, with skills ranging from core design and development to implementation and post implementation support. The candidate must be professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills as they will be customer facing.



Responsibilities

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

* Provide Integration Technical Leadership and Guidance.
* Lead teams of up to 2 developers.
* Develop high quality software components to meet client requirements participating in large and small development teams using traditional and agile delivery techniques.
* Implementing change requests to existing systems taking ownership of the full end-to-end delivery process.
* Delivery of high quality software to test and support of test cycles
* Delivery of high quality software to production environment
* Lead and participate in production releases and subsequent support activities
* Responsible for solution design, Quality Assurance, maintaining system configuration information and production of software related documentation
* Estimation and planning of large scale projects and play lead role in bid preparation
* Designing highly scalable, secure solutions
* Provide coaching of more junior team members



Required Education and Experience

* Bachelor's degree in a computer science, engineering, information technology discipline or equivalent.
* Minimum 5 years' Java experience with strong enterprise integration skills ideally in a Telco environment
* At least 5 years experience working with the following technologies: Spring Framework, Web Services, Hibernate, JSP development, JSF or other MVC architecture.
* Good knowledge of EJB, JTA, JMX, JDBC technologies
* Strong Maven and Ant Build experience
* Experience of AWS technologies an advantage
* Extensive experience in requirement analysis, technical documentation and design skills.





* Extensive experience in requirement gathering, functional documentation and UML skills
* Extensive experience in Distributed Software Engineering (e.g. REST/JSON, SOAP, SOA, CORBA)
* Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
* Strong experience in RDBMS and SQL on at least one commercial database
* Experience in web services development (e.g. Apache CXF, Apache Service Mix)
* Experience of at least one source code management system (e.g. SVN, GIT, Visual SourceSafe)



Desired Skills

* Ability to work in large scale, high volume, real-time JEE environments and large scale integration projects
* Experience of AWS Cloud Services
* Knowledge of Oracle, WebLogic and JBoss application servers
* Enterprise messaging JMS, MQ etc.
* Performance testing and tooling
* Oracle 10G and 11G databases
* Knowledge of agile development
* Full delivery lifecycle exposure
* Relevant IT certification a bonus
* Background in Telco business domain would be a distinct advantage