Description
Contact duration: 13+ months (strong possibility of extension)
Position Description: Experienced programmer analyst in Flex development, Also, Java and SQL programming experience strongly desired, and exposure to IDEs like Eclipse, and Flex Builder. Exposure to Mate framework and Agile/XP, preferred. This developer will also need to be able to work independently with minimal directionIn addition, the resource should have the following skills:
• High degree of creativity, interaction design and problem solving ability.
• Very strong communication verbal and writing skills (Ability to communicate one's ideas through their articulation of design)
• Proven track record and a passion for designing compelling user interfaces.
• Ability to translate requirements into concepts and elegant user design, interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience
• Possess practical experience employing user centered design methods
• Assert willingness to challenge traditional design thinking and look for new and innovative ways to approach design projects and improve streamline the user experience
• Excellent presentation skills & and attention to detail + Experience working with various departments within a product team + Team player
• Possesses a great portfolio of work/samples of interaction design work.
• Expertise in visual design using tools like Photoshop, Illustrator is expected.
• Prototyping skills using tools like Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver. Knowledge of Adobe Flex, very much preferred
The resource will also be required to translate detailed design into computer software. He/She will support testing, debugging, and refining the computer software to produce the required product. Experience Level: 5+ Years with Java or similar language. 2 years with Flex development experience. Candidate will possess knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Candidate will be familiar with relational database concepts, and Client Server concepts.
Adobe Flex Development Skill Set
Required skills/experience
Adobe Flex (3, 4, 4.5) , Eclipse/Flex Builder 3/Flash Builder 4 , Flash player , Actionscript (2,3) , MXML/User Interface design , Data Binding
Pattern concepts (MVCS, Mate, CairnGorm) , Experience with Database tools (TOAD, SQLDeveloper, etc) , Application profiling (profiling and testing memory, etc.) , CVS and/or Subversion , Thorough understanding object-oriented principles , Iterative development (Agile Scrum, XP, RUP)
Highly Desirable
Graphic designing/Web site design , Familiarity with enterprise development in Java , Familiarity with IBM RAD 6,7,8/WAS 6.1/7 development , Large project builds using (ANT or MAVEN) (reqd for dedicated app builders) , ORM (Hibernate/iBatis/MyBatis)
WebServices (SOA/ESB concepts) , Oracle PL/SQL (required for Stored Procedure Developers) , BlazeDS/AMF/Object Serialization/Remoting/Data services , Sub Applications/Modules , Runtime shared libraries, Adobe Flash memory management and garbage collection, Fluint , Logging , Charting, printing and exporting data , HTML, JavaScript/Browser Communication , AJAX , Style Sheets (CSS) and themes , Understanding of networking concepts , ANSI SQL
Preferred skills
XML/DOM, and parsing , XML/DTD/XSD/XSLT/SAX/DOM
LDAP , Unix, Linux commands , Continuous integration concepts
TDD – test driven development