Sr. Consultant IT

Responsibilities:

• Execute product architecture decisions with the Solution Architect, ensuring alignment with Product D&T Leader
• Work with Solution Architect and Product Owner to align product-level roadmap and acceptance criteria with strengths and opportunities within the existing architecture
• Collaborate with Solution Architect in identifying existing and new reusable, scalable components to incorporate in the product architecture
• Coach team engineers, QA and production support in best practices, such as conducting regular code reviews and pair programming sessions, to ensure clean, scalable code
• Identify, manage, and resolve team-level dependencies, impediments, and risks
• Monitor and manage technical debt, ensuring it is documented, prioritized, and addressed as part of the team’s backlog
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Ensures compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies.
  

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in designing and developing Java/J2EE/Portal applications,
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (Oracle/Sqlserver/MySQL and/or IBM DB2)
• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent
• Web application server side and middleware development experience delivering Java/J2EE applications using technologies; Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JMS ,Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices
• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture
• Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required.
• Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.
  

• Java/J2EE Technologies (JSP, Servlets / filters / Interceptors, JNDI, JMS)
• Spring Boot / Micro services
• REST and SOAP Based web services
• IBatis/Hibernate/SQL/Oracle
• REST API, Postman, Swagger, OAuth
• WebSeal
• AWS/ECS
• Jenkins/CI CD
• Junit , Mockito or Easy Mock, TDD
• Git
• Markup Languages like XML and JSON
• Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and JQuery a plus
• Front End frameworks like React/NextJs a plus
  

Location:

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