Monday, July 30, 2007

Web Application Architect in New York, NY

Monday, July 30, 2007
About DoubleClick
DoubleClick develops tools that advertisers and publishers use to plan, execute and analyze on-line marketing programs. DoubleClick is an application service provider, handling a staggering 12 billion transactions per day, and managing up to 160,000+ hits per second on its global network.

Our suite of products is driven by the DoubleClick Technology Group (DTG), comprised of over 300 IT professionals, located in New York, Colorado, Chicago, San Francisco and Europe. DTG is an agile software development shop, and employs a mix of open-source and third-party technologies including Java, C++, Perl, ASP.NET, Ab Initio and Oracle running on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms. In this rapidly growing industry, DoubleClick is both a market leader and innovator, creating an impressive number of new product releases every year.

DoubleClick offers great health, dental and visual insurance, 401(k), generous time-off policy, and dot com benefits, such as casual dress, a great work environment, ping pong and pool tables.

We pride ourselves with hiring passionate, self-motivated and innovative professionals who enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies and pushing those technologies to their limits. If this sounds exciting, come join us taking our world-class, high-volume systems to the next level!

Position Description:
The person in this role is responsible for leading the design and implementation of the web application architecture across DoubleClick's ad serving products.

Responsibilities:
* Own the web application architecture across all products
* Provide guidance and direction to development staff on architectural standards and best practices
* Promote agile practices, such as, test driven development, continuous builds and integration, QA automation, etc.
* Work closely with senior engineering management and product management
* Collaborate with other architects to ensure the goals and integrity of the DART platform
* Perform technology/tools evaluation and software technical proof of concepts

Required experience:
* Bachelors Degree in relevant field
* 8+ years in software development, including 4+ years of web-based application development
* .NET and JEE systems
* Authentication and authorization solutions for web-based systems
* Data architecture (Oracle preferred)
* Requirements gathering and domain analysis
* Distributed processing and high availability
* Full SDLC knowledge
* Using design patterns in refactoring complex systems
* Scalability and performance tuning

Tools and technologies:
* JSP, Servlets, JMS, JDBC, SOA, Web Services, SOAP, XML/XSLT
* ASP.NET
* HTML, DHTML, client-side scripting, CSS, Javascript and AJAX
* Struts, JSF or Tapestry
* Spring and Hibernate

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