Middleware Developer

My leading client are looking to bring on board a Middleware Developer who will be responsible for the design, development and 3rd line support of large-scale / complex Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) and Java / JEE applications.

Responsibilities

* Technical involvement in all stages of the development lifecycle of products and services, using SOA and Java / J2EE.
* Responsible for the development, integration, support and maintenance of internet and provisioning based applications/services written in Java.
* Accountable for software delivery from third party system integrators. Can demonstrate effective third party relationship building and end to end solution delivery within agreed architecture, development methodology and timescales.
* Provides day-to-day management of internal and/or offshore development resources and third party suppliers who are providing services or resources to the team.
* Responsible for signing off individual development stages including design, development, unit testing and approving work completed by third party suppliers.
* Responsible for ensuring that all deliverables are of appropriate quality and meet the sated requirements (e.g. design documentation, software, unit test documentation & results, etc).
* Responsible for delivering loosely coupled components with clearly defined interfaces within a large component based infrastructure that conforms to a detailed design and requirements definition.
* Responsible for all development aspects within the development lifecycle from design through to the support and enhancement of applications once they are in production.
* Work closely with IT Operations teams to ensure applications are operationally robust and that application performance remains within defined boundaries.
* Work with the Development Manager to define and maintain software development standards and methodologies. Promote development standards and best practice within the team.

Required Experience

* Proven track record in Java/J2EE development
* Experience of managing suppliers to ensure they deliver services and solutions agreed to within the terms of the contract. Ability to build effective working relationships between the two organisations.
* Proven experience of developing software within a well defined development process. Fully familiar with the tools and techniques used (e.g. RUP, UML, and Agile Development).
* Proven design and development skills, using some or all of the following technologies / languages:
* Java / J2EE, Web services (SOAP, Sun JCAPS) / Message based provisioning systems
* RDBMS experience (Oracle, mySQL)
* Tools (CVS, Subversion, Ant, Maven, CruiseControl, Eclipse)
* Application Server Environments (Sun Portal Server, Tomcat, Sun Access Manager)

Key Skills:

* Java CAPS 6.2, Java CAPS 5.1.2
* Java, JEE5
* Glassfish (Advanced App Server fundamentals i.e. Clustering & Loadbalancing)
* Apache
* Solaris 10, Sun SPARC, Unix
* Web Services, BPEL, XML, XSD, WSDL, EJB, XSL, JAXB, JAXWS, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, etc
* Netbeans, Eclipse, Tortoise CVS, SOAPUI, XML-Spy, etc
* Concepts: Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Service Bus, Configuration, Release, Change & Build Management
* Frameworks - Spring, Hibernate, JBI, etc

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