QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Technical Skills

• 5+ years of experience in java middle-tier applications in a J2EE environment within the US
• Strong familiarity with API management, micro-services, Java/J2EE application stacks
• Strong experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Experience in large scale applications – either public-facing web applications or applications with large numbers of concurrent users.
• Experience with either on-line or in-store retail selling applications

Deep hands-on experience with the following technologies:

• Deep technical hands-on experience developing in REST/JSON or SOAP/XML
• Experience developing solutions in AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Docker, or related container-oriented technologies (i.e. Docker Enterprise Edition, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Comfortable implementing continuous integration / continuous delivery process for applications using technologies such as Jenkins and Git.
• Experience with Test Driven Development, including writing and implementing automated unit, system, and integration tests.
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle 11g or above, SQL Server). Experience with NoSQL databases including Cassandra and MongoDB.
• Experience building microservices using Spring Boot
• Experience building applications that work with IBM MQ, JBoss, and Tomcat, JPA and Hibernate
• Working knowledge of EJB 3 or above
• Experience developing and deploying applications on Linux/Unix/AIX servers
• Experience creating and consuming REST API services with JSON
• Experience defining tables and creating SQL queries using Oracle (preferred) or another database platform (DB2, MySQL, SQL Server)
• Experience creating and configuring deployments in Jenkins
• Experience using Unix command line and Bash/Shell/Python scripting to automate tasks, etc.
• Experience with Subversion (SVN) and GIT source control; Maven and Ant; JIRA, Confluence, Grails, web security experience such as WS-Security; Eclipse-based IDEs
• Experience using JUnit and Gatling to write automated tests
• Experience with designing and conducting performance/stress tests on applications, analyzing and leveraging these results to improve application throughput and response time.

Communication Skills

• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, work with architects to come to an agreed technical approach, and lead development efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively with or lead cross-functional teams with minimal supervision.
• Ability to drive consensus within a team and influence outcomes in significant technical decision-making.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills to work with different business groups as well as IT partners (enterprise architects, vendors, etc.) at all levels within the organization.
• Problem Solving and Analytic Skills

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Master’s Degree within the STEM discipline and 10 years of systems engineering experience, OR Bachelor of Science with the STEM discipline and 15 years' systems engineering experience, OR equivalent practical experience with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and API design.
• Strong integration architecture experience with familiarity with the retail order management process.
• Experience and understanding of enterprise Integration concepts and technologies including ESB, SOA based solutions, transactional systems, message-oriented middleware, canonical message model pattern, JMS, continuous integration framework, REST, SOAP, and web services.
• Broad knowledge of service and client development, a different open-source framework, application performance tuning, Agile Scrum methodology, software engineering best practices.
• Experience of developing low latency, highly available and scalable distributed systems in an environment with high volumes of transactions.
• Experience in building middle-tier services that integrate with various external systems and vendors with enterprise middleware technologies and different standardized communication protocols.
• Experience in defining system architectures and designs, exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs, and making data-driven decisions.
• Experience in supporting large-scale web applications and enterprise service software