Technical Architect - Java App - Banking/Payment Domain

Technical Competencies

- 4+ years of software development and design experience.

- 3+ years of direct hands-on design and development experience with building scalable, high performing and robust server-side application in Java and J2EE is a must

- Superior disciplined coding skills - Java expert level, ability to produce production ready code with minimal supervision

- Expertise with some or all of Apache, JBoss / Tomcat, JMS or other application servers

- Proven experience in design skills - object oriented methodologies, UML modeling, design patterns, systems analysis.

- Strong experience of web services technologies such as HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST

- Good hands-on experience with Spring and Hibernate.

- Experience in defining clean, crystal clear interfaces/API using Web Services Technology (REST, SOAP etc.).

- Extensive database skills including schema design, query design, persistence frameworks and performance tuning (ORACLE/MySQL/Microsoft SQL Server)

- Proven experience in building large-scale, massive distributed, cloud-based, extremely high volume applications and systems.

- Superior skills in data structures and algorithms design, and experiences to design the architecture for large scale, multi-layer systems

- Superior skills in interface design for extensibility and portability

- Interest in indexing technologies, information retrieval, query languages, query processing, query optimization, concurrency, algorithms.

- Exceptional experience with architecture for socket-level and multi-threading programming.

- Expertise in design / developing platform components like caching, messaging, event processing, automation, transformation.

- Experience and passion to work in a fast paced Agile environment, delivering functional features in small time durations.

- Experience with Continuous Integration and related tools (Jenkins/Hudson/CruiseControl/Maven).

- Knowledge of Banking software would be a plus