J2EE Developer: Premium Technology

Job Description:

A very large bank has a number of web development initiatives underway. As a member of a business systems development staff, the candidate would participate in the development and implementation of internal and mission critical external distributed web applications. The position is for an Application Developer who has strong experience developing and implementing applications using the J2EE architecture. The candidate will be responsible for building web applications based on the established system architecture and will be involved in the entire project life cycle (requirements gathering, development, deployment and maintenance).

- Participate in the analysis and design of applications with the System Architect and Business Users (including business model, security model and Business components)
- Translate business model and user requirements into software specifications
- Develop and conduct design walk-throughs
- Build application components based on software specifications
- Provide support of application deployment and maintenance
- Support testing (Functional, Performance, Access controls)
- Develop documentation artifacts; and
- Production support during weekend/off-hours work, when required

Desired Skills:
- Typically possesses 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience.
- At least four years of working experience with JAVA, Servlets, JSPs, JDBC, JavaScript, HTML;
- Proven working knowledge of the J2EE architecture;
- Proven working knowledge of WebSphere and Eclipse or IBM's Rapid Application Development IDE;
- Proven working knowledge of the Spring Web application framework;
- Strong Object-Oriented analysis and design skills, including requirements analysis, OO design patterns, and UML;
- Ability to mentor other staff; and
- Strong oral and written communications skills required

Preferred Skills:
- Spring MVS and IOC
- Struts and JBoss a plus

- XML, AJAX experience;
- Proven knowledge of ActionScript 3.0 and experience in application development using the Adobe Flex framework;
- Experience developing web based data visualizations (charts, maps, graphs);
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the use of Rational Rose; and
- Relational database experience

*This position requires access to confidential supervisory information, which is limited to ''Protected Individuals'' as defined in the U.S. federal immigration law. Protected Individuals include, but are not limited to, U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents who are not yet eligible to apply for naturalization, and U.S. permanent residents who have applied for naturalization within six months of being eligible to do so.