Required skills and experience:

• At least ten years software development experience; at least four years of technical leadership with independent architectural/design responsibilities; architecting at least one multi-tier, high transaction enterprise application
• At least five years of object-oriented analysis and design experience
• Working knowledge of J2EE
• Thorough understanding of enterprise application integration issues and experience with modern integration technologies
• Familiarity with cross-cutting concerns such as security, performance, scalability, maintainability and supportability
• Experience in data architecture, and data modeling
• Experience managing remotely distributed design and implementation teams
• Thorough knowledge of software development life cycle
• Proven ability to provide realistic effort estimates
• Proven verbal and written communication skills, ability to clearly articulate complex technical issues
• Strong presentation skills
• Analytical thinking, proactive attitude, self-motivation demonstrated through past experience
• Experience in performance and scalability testing and tuning; knowledge of Java profiling tools, Oracle profiling, specifics of Linux/Unix performance. Ability to direct performance and scalability testing and tuning efforts.

Desired skills and experience, which would be considered as an advantage
• Familiarity with Insurance Industry
• Experience in practicing Agile methodology
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture
• Knowledge of leading RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server preferred)
• Knowledge of mainframe technologies
• Experience with Data Warehousing
• Familiarity with Open Source products
• Experience with such technologies as Spring, JPA/Hibernate, JSF
• Knowledge of Java Application Servers, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat
• Experience with code management tools: SVN, Mercurial, Maven, et cetera
• Customer communication and management skills
Education:
• BS CS/CE or equivalent degree required; MS or equivalent experience preferred

Candidate duties in the position:
• Lead architecture, design and implementation of high transaction, multi-tier enterprise solutions
• Interface and collaborate with client technical teams
• Lead globally distributed design and implementation teams
• Enforce best engineering practices and company policies across solution lifecycle

Please, send your CV to our mail: olga.ostrovskaya@exigenservices.com