Job Description:
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My client, a St. Louis based company creating sophisticated communication products, is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect.
SCOPE OF OPPORTUNITY
Sr. Solution Architect for a high-profile complex, distributed, 24x7, commercial system software product hosted on the J2EE platform. Will be on a small team of Architects that ensure the technology implemented will serve the business needs and vision. Work with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)/Business Analysts (BAs), Project Management (PMs) and Development Manager to drive releases and balance scope, schedule, quality and cost.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for the overall technical vision of the product and how that vision serves the business and is realized in construction.
Provide expertise to anticipate schedule and technical risks.
Assist in building commercial software house – policy, organization, staffing and process.
Lead project control and process instrumentation including automation of metrics generation used for objective analysis.
Ensure development standards are followed for all J2EE development including automated checks (via tools such as CheckStyle, Macker, etc.)
Review and sign-off on artifacts from all phases – Uses Cases, estimates, HLDs, LLDs, code, tests – to make sure they meet requirements and the architectural vision for the product.
Development on frameworks and other key areas.
Help with performance/scale/high-availability issues including resolving deadlocks and race conditions applying thread dumps, profilers, etc.
Author documentation including Software Architecture Document (4 + 1 views), engine diagrams, etc.
Assists other disciplines as needed including Infrastructure for sizing, platform strategy/migration/configuration and build automation.
Support both production and development including escalation and promotion management.
Communicates as needed with the Project Manager and Development/Test/Performance Managers for updates on progress, implementation issues and status.
Escalates issues in a timely manner and provides mitigation recommendations to the Project Manager.
Identifies resource needs and communicates them to PMO and Project Manager.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
12+ years of experience in design and development using Systems Development Life Cycle and Project Management Methodologies.
4+ years as Enterprise Architect.
Demonstrated technical knowledge of J2EE and related technologies including
EJB, JMS, and JDBC.
Experience on several full project life cycles.
Experience with a variety of architecture/design patterns and idioms.
Experience with developing performant/scalable/high-availability systems; specifically performance/reliability issues - concurrency, deadlocks, race conditions, database contention, transactions, error handling/recovery and self-correction, applying profiling, memory analysis and thread dumps is highly desirable.
Understanding of the J2EE deployment model (e.g., EAR, WAR, JAR, etc.), hierarchical class loading, clustering, load balancing and failover.
Database (preferably Oracle) and JDBC/SQL expertise.
Must have automation experience including Ant, JUnit and/or Cactus, metrics generation, style checkers (e.g., CheckStyle, Macker, …).
Highly proficient in UML, RUP and Rational tools.
Excellent time management skills, including multi-tasking and prioritization.
Excellent analytical skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills, including mentoring and performance feedback.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Exposure to a broad range of development tools and methodologies.
Commercial Software development experience a plus.
Advanced algorithms and data structures knowledge a plus.
Distributed systems experience - SOA, Web Services, COM, CORBA - a plus.
Real-time or telecommunications software experience a plus.
Client insists all candidates must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship - sorry, no H1-B's at this time.
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