Complete ownership of the design and implementation (estimation, breakdown of tasks) for complex business functional specifications through the full software development lifecycle.
Complete ownership of maintenance and support issues during the project lifecycle, both pre- and post-go-live. Provide technical assistance to support, QA, and business analysis teams.
Ability to work with remote teams in a geographically distributed development model.
Evaluate, apply, and lead adoption of new technologies and tools within the IM Development team and across the organization to enhance productivity, efficiency, and scalability.
Collaborate and share technical and business knowledge with all members of the Development and wider IM organization.
Act as an agent of continuous improvement within development and across the company.
Educational Qualification:
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field (minimum 8+ years experience).
Commercial awareness.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize work.
Personal Competencies & Technical Skills:
Proficiency in at least one of the following J2EE Application Servers: WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, with proven excellence in Java.
Proficiency in one of the Messaging Systems: JMS, MQ, Tibco.
Intermediate level proficiency in Oracle (PL/SQL).
Working knowledge of IOC containers / Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, and ORM frameworks like Hibernate.
Expertise with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace.
Understanding of Java Memory Management and Garbage Collection (GC) tuning.
Good experience working with Spring Batch and performance tuning.
Strong diagnosis skills, experience with legacy code, thread dump analysis, and code profiling tools. Knowledge of refactoring techniques is an advantage.
Solid understanding and application of J2EE design patterns, including GoF, GRASP, Visitor, Observer, and others.
Tooling & Testing:
Expertise in unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Cactus, or mock objects.
Expertise in Git, including branching and code management.
Demonstrated ability to use an IDE efficiently and mentor others in IDE usage.
Understanding of JVM memory management fundamentals.
Experience working with Continuous Integration tools.
Processes:
Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and XP.
Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI).
