Role : Lead Java Developer (potential backfill)

Location : Englewood,CO

Duration : 6 Months

Rate : $45/hr

Prior Lead experience, Great Communication, SOA, OO Skills, SOAP Web Services, Maven, Message Broker (JMS or MQ), JBOSS or Websphere or Weblogic, RDBMS and heavy design experience.

Job Description :

Knowledge, Skills, Experience, Training, Education:

· A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

· 7-10 years of experience in software development and design.

· Must have prior lead experience, even on a small team of 2-3 developers

· Great comm skills required, will be communicating with stakeholders

· Demonstrated ability to make strong judgments and work effectively with all levels of clients, management and staff.

· Ability to lead both small and large projects in a fast paced environment.

· Ability to multi-task and manage multiple, concurrent development streams.

· Ability to work within a team.

· Ability to Plan, track, communicate and manage system requirements through design to implementation.

· Ability to provide highly detailed documentation of projects implemented.

· Support and provide input as part of the project team during the design, development, and deployment phases of the project.

· Very good written, verbal and presentation skills to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

· Will have a QA and Performance Testing team to assist

Technical Skills/Expertise:

· Experience applying Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to real-world solutions.

· Very Strong OO Skills.

· Excellent leadership, organization and communication skills.

· Strong knowledge of Web Services (SOAP and REST), WS-* standards, XML, JSON.

· Excellent knowledge of Java language.

· Experience with the Mule ESB is a plus

· Experience with Agile Software Development Life Cycle methodology.

· Experience with Continuum, Maven.

· Experience with Linux and Scripting.

· Strong Experience with IBM middleware (Websphere, Message Broker (JMS or MQ), ESB).

· Experience with caching products like CouchDB and alternate database technologies like Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB etc. is a plus.

· Experience designing systems for high-performance: high throughput, high-availability, low latency, etc.

· Performance tuning / profiling

· Experience with any standard container: JBOSS / Websphere / Weblogic

· Strong multi-threading experience

· Back-end development required, front-end is a plus

· Using DB2, but relational DB experience is all that is needed

· Should know dependency injection, annotations, object-relational mapping

· Will be doing heavy design work, and articulating the design to developers and stakeholders.