Software Engineer - Java/J2EE

Description

Hi All,

We are hiring for Software Engineer - Java/J2EE for one of our global IT leading client based in Dublin,Ireland.

Job Title: Software Engineer - Java/J2EE

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Department/Practice: General Insurance Domain

Job Purpose and primary objectives: Java/J2EE Designer & Developer

Key responsibilities (please specify if the position is an individual one or part of a team):

Individual Position.

Key responsibilities:

• Facilitate requirements gathering using expert listening skills and develop unique simple solutions to meet the immediate and long-term needs of business customers

• Analyzes the technical and business requirements, including functional and non-functional requirements, to develop a systems solution

• Works closely with business partners to understand business requirements to design quality technical solutions that align with business and IT strategies and comply with the organization's architectural standards

• Be part of Agile Team working closely with Product owner, Scrum Master,

• System analysis and evaluation

• Resolves problems that result in a decreased time to market; improves quality, enhances flexibility, and embraces the solution provider mindset

• Preparation of requirement specification and High/Low level design document

• Responsible for timely delivery of software services rendered to the client

• Liaison between client teams and offshore team for deliveries

• Review & validate the deliverable from the offshore before implementation in production

• Supervisory/Managerial responsibilities (please specify if the position will have persons reporting to it)

• Other responsibilities - Budgets, targets, equipment etc (please specify)

Key Skills/Knowledge:

• Good working experience on leading and managing the web application design, development and maintenance using Java/JEE technologies.

• Need to demonstrate strong skills in Javascript, Ajax, HTML, JSP and CSS technologies.

• Strong working experience in implementing MVC frameworks - JSF v1.2, Spring v2.0, Struts v1.2.

• Possess working experience in SOAP based Web services and iBatis 2.3.

• Experience in development tools like RAD 7.0, WASD, Eclipse, Spring source tool-suite, Jenkins.

• Experience in Unix OS and Shell programming.

• Experience in Middleware technologies such as Message Queue and JMS.

• Experience in configuration management tools - Serena Dimensions and GIT.

• Previous experience with Oracle or other relational databases.

• Experience in implementing Software Engineering practices is a must.

• Previous experience leading a team of developers.

• Knowledge of Object Oriented Design and Development.

• Proficient in Agile methodologies

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, both technical and non-technical Experience designing, developing and delivering packaged software or making customizations to existing packaged software applications is also preferable.

• Excellent understanding and interpretation of Insurance Domain business and technical requirements.

• Ability to clearly communicate design rationales and build consensus around designs.

• Ability to develop innovative approaches to complex design problems.

Experience required:

• Understanding of business and technical requirements and share the impact analysis.

• Estimate the efforts for the changes and review.

• Create and Review the design and collaborate with the technical architects.

• Implement the changes and create a delivery package for deployment.

• Liaise with various stakeholders like Project Manager, Solution Design Team, Testing team and Release management team.

• Installation, configuration and upgrading of WAS software and related products.

• Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures.

• Perform database tuning and performance monitoring.

• Perform application tuning and performance monitoring.

• Responsible for providing assistance on or conducting the more complicated walk through of technical and operational features functions and attributes of new or existing solutions.

• Works on projects/issues of medium to high complexity that require demonstrated knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments. Coaches and mentors more junior technical staff.

• Troubleshoot problems, perform testing/quality assurance and support user acceptance testing to ensure successful project implementations.

• Adhere to standards, design, documentation and testing while maintaining appropriate quality levels.

• Participate in code reviews on others developers' code.

• Compile and write documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instructions so others can understand the program.

Duration of the Assignment: 12 months

Additional remarks (if any):

• Person needs to work in onshore/offshore model hence would need a lot of time to be spent over the call with offshore team.

• General Insurance knowledge is must (preferably in Irish market)

Person Specification:

ie Negotiating, client facing, communication, assertive, team leading/team member skills, supportive.

• Communication

• Client facing role.

About US: Avance Consulting is one of the UK's fastest growing talent acquisition companies. Head quartered in London, we are a global
reach agency with a large presence in UK, Europe, US and India. Best Regards,

Raazia Fatima

Talent Acquisition Consultant