Job Description

Overview:

A senior technologist responsible for analysis, design, development and implementation of web-based (JAVA) software systems for a fixed income, investment management business, with prior experience in web-based and Java-based systems development.

Responsibilities:

Understanding the business processes, participating in process modeling and design workshops, identifying opportunities for process improvement in working with process analysts and the business users.
Effectively communicating technical or non-technical issues with the business users.
Modeling business components, services, processes, and systems. Understand design patterns, and their applicability. Create and maintain common components and services using a layered architecture that will be used by several projects.

Implementing web-services or JMS based integrations with BPM and other systems using the ESB (Enterprise Service Bus).

Contributing to design sessions, coding, code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, supporting beta testing, bug fixes and documentation in support of new BPM integration initiatives and related projects and promoting common standards and best practices.

Provide production support, evaluate and trouble shoot Java code and system failures and discrepancies. Analyze performance and design inefficiencies.

Competencies:

Specific Technical Knowledge and Experience Required:

Strong Java & J2EE programming skills with web based application development experience (JSP, Servlets, XML, AJAX, Style Sheets (CSS), XPath, XQuery, HTML and JavaScript).
Experience with Spring, Struts and Tiles frameworks.
JMS and Web Services based development and systems integration experience.
Strong database skills, including Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, stored procedures.
Strong understanding of agile software development methodology; background in object oriented design and analysis.
Understanding of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Financial industry experience, especially in Fixed Income.
Prior business process re-engineering, process improvement experience and exposure to LEAN, Six Sigma process improvement methodologies.




Qualifications:



College degree in Computing Science or Engineering required. Certifications highly desired.
Minimum 5 years of experience developing enterprise software with Java based Web Development.

Candidates interested in applying to this role should e-mail jobs@beatindex.biz.