Java/J2EE Architect - BFSI

Core Skills:

- Conceptualization and Development is the key skill required along with OO and database design Fundamentals.

- J2EE, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, SQL queries, Design Patterns and UML concepts, Eclipse, or equivalent Java IDE, any J2EE compliant application server.

Job Description:

- The candidate is expected to be able to work with project team of application and data architects for detailing given platform independent models and different solution aspects into JAVA / J2EE constructs that can be implemented by development team.

Is expected to understand and contribute for:

- Taking requirements given as Use Cases or any other form and define / suggest and detail the usage of various open source / commercial frameworks productivity and integration tools and techniques used.

- Define details of online as well as batch processing / web-services and portal concepts for an application architecture block diagram and HLD.

- Application optimization / performance tuning and assist teams in firefighting situations.

- Taking ownership of the project work and assigned team

Should have a fair understanding of:

- Other architecture disciplines that go into making a complete solution and ability to understand and influence them.

- Mentoring a team of fresher's to understand the various design patterns, frameworks, tools and techniques used and steering clear of common design and code mistakes.

Skill Requirements:

Technical:

- Must be comfortable with design patterns and open source, commercial frameworks productivity and integration tools and techniques frameworks, Should have used at least 5 different frameworks or tools and mush have understand for concepts of Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

- Must have prior experience of working in project with effort of more than 240/300 person months and have handled teams with 8+ people

Specific minimum understanding is expected for frameworks like:

- Hibernate or any JPA f/w

- Struts (1 and 2)

- Spring (Core and Web Flow)

- Jasper or any similar reporting tool

- ESB or Web Service frameworks like Axis / Mule / Apache CSF etc

- Understanding of any RIA framework is preferred

- Should understand Concepts of

- OO fundamentals (Abstraction / encapsulation / polymorphism) and various relationships between classes
Object Relational Mapping

- Importance of choice between selection of batch and online processing and where to use and not use Java

- J2EE concepts like EJB / JMS / Transaction management etc

- Understanding of event driven application development and Java Swing is and added advantage

- UNIX operations and scripting techniques / controlling source code repositories and versioning tools

Domain:

- Expertise in Banking and financial services is advantageous, Candidates from Product Development Background would be given preference