Senior Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Acquire and interpret business requirements, creates a functional specification, and determines the most efficient/appropriate technologies.
• While following department established standards, influence users in determining the best design to meet project requirements. Responsible for implementing approved architecture design.
• Design, submit and review technical and process improvement recommendations as a member of the technical leadership team.
• Perform complex programming assignments requiring an advanced aptitude of established programming standards, methods, and best practices.
• Design application and database components for development projects.
• Perform analysis of business models, logical specifications, and/or customer requirements to design and build Internet solutions utilizing multiple technologies.
• Mitigate significant risks associated with projects, which have a high technical complexity and/or involve significant challenges to the business.
• Understand the business problem being solved and recommend the best solution.
• Maintain and modify applications; make approved changes by amending application documentation, developing detailed programming logic, and coding changes.
• Provide support for critical application problems and issues. Develop proactive measures to ensure issue is solved and or easily discovered going forward.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert in the discovery and investigation of critical production problems as required.
• Collaborate with business domain experts to analyze and assess existing business critical functions. Recommend improvements to operational processes.
• Assist Project Manager in the definition, gathering, development, and documentation of business and/or technical requirements, objectives, deliverables, design specifications and project plans.
• Participate in requirements gathering and design responsibilities. Create documentation such as Technical Requirements and High-Level Design documents.
• Collaborate with other developers, programmers, and designers in conceptualizing and development of new software programs and applications.
• Lead or participate in software design reviews.
• Assist in the diagnosis and correction of system issues and software bugs. Participate in measures to prevent them from happening again.
• Conduct research into new technologies, including tools, components, and frameworks.
• Train and knowledge share with development teams.
• Mentor and coach developers and/or Professional Apprentices.
• Self manage project work, tasks and status reporting as necessary.
• Make presentations to management, clients, and peer groups as requested.
• Provide off hour support for critical application problems and issues.
• Analyze performance of programs and take action to correct deficiencies based on consultation with clients and approval of supervisor.
• Assist with other projects as may be required to contribute to efficiency and effectiveness of the work.
• Participate in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.

Key Skills:

• Object-Oriented Programming Concepts. 
• System Design And Architecture. 
• JVM Internals.
• Java Build Tools. 
• Web Technologies. 
• Code Version Control. 
• Java Testing Tools. 
• Web Frameworks.