Sr Java Developer in New york, NY

Position Summary:The Sr. Portal Developer will act as portal design and development resource for creating Flex and JSR168 portlets on the Vignette Portal platform, implementing solutions involving the ratings business sites, focusing on application design and code integration work across other shared service components.Job Description and Responsibilities:• Dual reporting line to the Leads of Ratings Gateway for C&G and SF in the capacity as a senior designer and developer for the portal platform in support of projects, new development and maintenance efforts;• Work closely and collaborate with business analysts and UX Team to clarify and implement against requirements and specifications;• Collaborate, create, and submit detailed systems and coding design and map specifications for code development;• Perform code analysis and work with UX Team, architects and other developers to come up with the best balance of functionality vs. code quality vs. performance vs. delivery timing vs. work effort;• Support an existing portal production environment, working with the portal Operations team to troubleshoot application level bugs, deployment, configuration, and code change management;• Work in a multi-team environment balancing the support of the technical team and representing all aspects of technical implementation;• Perform application development based integration and technology solutions and tasks, providing up to date documentation of technical specs;• Partner and work closely with the portal leads and architects to provide and implement best practices across projects;• Partner with the portal Operations Team to help drive operational readiness and excellence to improve the portal platform reliability, availability, scalability and performance (RASP);• Work with portal leads and act as a mentor as needed for other developers, providing technical guidance and support to less experienced team members• Able to quickly integrate with culturally diverse work groupsJob Requirements and Qualifications:• Minimum 7 years of experience in software development and system integration area; • At least 5 years of strong hands on production development experience in Java/J2EE environment including JSP, Servlet and EJB; • At least 2 years of strong hands on production development experience using MXML and ActionScript 3 using the Flex Builder environment;• Suitable candidate should also have a strong understanding and practical application of MVC through the Spring Framework, and other J2EE design patterns; • Working knowledge of Cairngorm and/or other MVC framework for Flex• At least 5 years of production experience in the design and development of information systems on portal-based projects using portal technology;• Programming experience: Essential: Java/J2EE, JSR 168, Adobe Flex, Spring framework, Web Services, AJAX/JavaScript (Dojo with DWR), ExtJSApplication Architecture experience, Database Stored Procedures, XML, HTML, DHTML); Experience: Tools: Eclipse, profiling, code/platform optimization and fine tuning server side integration knowledge; Maven, Ant• RDBMS: Oracle DBMS; operating system: Solaris 8, 10• Software analysis, design and development on enterprise level multi-tiered portal applications in a shared service engagement model;• Strong track record of translating technical specifications into quality design and code, with a balance between conceptual and technical architecture skills;• Self-starter who is organized, works with minimal supervision, and is a team player;• Excellent team work and must have high level of communication and articulation skills, including strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work closely with other developers in a coaching or mentoring relationship;• Demonstrated leadership skills;• Strong analytical skills;• Solid written communication skills;• Excellent verbal communication skills;• Ability to drive, multi-task and prioritize;• Ability to manage expectations;• Disciplined approach to defining and understanding technical specifications and creativity to come up with one if lacking thereof;• Work on financial services development and integration projects;Ideal Candidate will also have the following desired skills:• Vignette Portal-based portal platform product knowledge and experience highly preferred;• Microsoft Sharepoint development and integration with J2EE portals background is highly desirable;• An understanding of Object oriented design, database design, UML, HTML is preferred;• Some background in implementing document and content management systems a big plus, preferably based on Documentum;• Search integration experience using Autonomy strongly preferred.• A working knowledge of ExtJS• The ability to use the MVC pattern for developing XML/ActionScript 3 Flex applications To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here