Java Architect - Application Development & Solution Building

Role : Java Architect

Location : Gurgaon

Experience : 8-12 years

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

- Lead and coordinate development activities and be the anchor of technical expertise with technical teams.

- Review work estimates and provide oversight of solution builds

- Ensure the proper translation and validation of system requirements into software design through iterative sessions with Product Management and other SME's

- Implement and enforce engineering best practices using modern standards and patterns

- Review unit test plans, tests, and code coverage to ensure high quality delivery

- Implement engineering excellence by enforcing regular code reviews, continuous integration, high test code coverage, on-going code refactoring and adequate documentation

Ensure correct usage of industry standard software and frameworks and accompany the following task:

- Decompose technical tasks and provide accurate estimates

- Coach less experienced members of your team

- To undertake development tasks without supervision, including software designing, programming and testing within a Test-Driven Development process

- To monitor progress and provide updates to the Project Manager

- To understand and apply a formal quality approach

REQUIREMENTS :

Specific knowledge, skills and abilities :

- 8-12 years of application development and solution building experience

- Expert level understanding of modern software development methodologies and frameworks

- Strong experience integrating systems using secure web services, API's or other channels

- Proficient creating design documents such as ERD's, logical/physical/functional designs, process flows and systems integration

- Proven experience with the JAVA/J2EE development environment as well as products such as SVN, TFS, Maven, Artifactory, SONAR and PQM

- Extensive experience building JAVA solutions on the Apache Web server, using the JBoss application server and connecting to the Oracle database platform

- Proficiency building web applications using Java EE, Web Services, Java Servlets, JSP, Junit, HTML5 and JQuery, Angular.js.

- Knowledge of Clustering, Thread-pool Management and designing systems for scalability

- Experience with frameworks such as Spring, MVC, and ORM products such as Hibernate

- Experience building service-oriented enterprise architecture using a Restful web services approach

- Good interpersonal skills, including the ability to work cooperatively in a team environment, to build consensus, and to successfully manage customer relationships

- Highly organized, systematic and analytical

- Experience working with complex heterogeneous systems environments

- Self-motivated with the ability to make solid technical / business decisions with minimal managerial direction

- Superior communication skills, having a professional demeanour and the ability to excel in a distributed team model