Sr Software Engineer

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery. 
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.  
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits. 
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.  
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications built on Java technologies. 
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.  
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.  
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards. 
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code. 
• Package and support deployment of releases.  
• Work with teammates in the migration of legacy applications to current Java  technologies.  
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications. 
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.  
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.  
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget. Provide third-level support to business users. 
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products. 

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS 

Minimum Requirements 10 to 14 years’ experience as a Software Developer Prior experience in a technical leadership position   

University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline  

Core Competency Requirements Proficient with  

• Deep hands-on expertise with SOA, Microservices, REST/SOAP Web Services, JSON/XML and containers (docker) 
• Good knowledge of database concepts with working knowledge of SQL, Stored Procedures, XQuery and XML Query; 
• Proficiency with at least one ORM/Persistence Framework Hibernate, JPA; 
• JSF (My Faces and RichFaces), JS with modern frameworks (Angular, React); 
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical users; 
• Java 11+, Spring, Spring Boot 3; 
• JUnit 5 and Mockito 
• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise grade software 
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments  
• Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum 
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency 
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization 
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes  

Preferred Competency Requirements  

• Hands-on experience with HTML5, Ajax and related frameworks (such as GWT) a plus. 
• Strong database background and experience with Oracle or MS SQL Server. 
• Knowledge of and implementation experience with JCE are highly desirable. 
• Understanding of Web Single Sign On technologies such as SAML, WS-FED and OAUTH are highly desirable for this position.  
• Experience with any product such as ADFS, PING Federate or Oracle Identity Federation Service is a plus.  
• Knowledge of architectures for large-scale web/eCommerce infrastructures including clustering, high-availability, fault tolerance, etc.  
• Hands on experience with BPM and SOA  

Nice to have Requirements 

• .NET framework 
• Azure Foundation 
• IAM (Identity and Access Management) 
• Angular 
• Apache web server 
• Node.js 
• Microsoft CA