Java Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate requirements gathering using expert listening skills and develop unique simple solutions to meet the immediate and long-term needs of business customers
• Analyzes the technical and business requirements, including functional and non-functional requirements, to develop a systems solution
• Works closely with business partners to understand business requirements to design quality technical solutions that align with business and IT strategies and comply with the organization’s architectural standards
• Be part of Agile Team working closely with Product owner, Scrum Master
• System analysis and evaluation
• Resolves problems that result in a decreased time to market; improves quality, enhances flexibility, and embraces the solution provider mindset
• Preparation of requirement specification and High/Low level design document
• Responsible for timely delivery of software services rendered to the client
• Liaison between client teams and offshore team for deliveries
• Review & validate the deliverable from the offshore before implementation in production

Key Skills:

• Good working experience on leading and managing the web application design, development and maintenance using Java/JEE technologies
• Need to demonstrate strong skills in Javascript, Ajax, HTML, JSP and CSS technologies
• Strong working experience in implementing MVC frameworks – JSF v1.2, Spring v2.0, Struts v1.2
• Possess working experience in SOAP based Web services and iBatis 2.3
• Experience in development tools like RAD 7.0, WASD, Eclipse, Spring source tool-suite, Jenkins
• Experience in Unix OS and Shell programming
• Experience in middleware technologies such as Message Queue and JMS
• Experience in configuration management tools – Serena Dimensions and GIT
• Previous experience with Oracle or other relational databases
• Experience in implementing Software Engineering practices is a must
• Previous experience leading a team of developers
• Knowledge of Object Oriented Design and Development
• Proficient in Agile methodologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, both technical and non-technical Experience designing, developing and delivering packaged software or making customizations to existing packaged software applications is also preferable
• Excellent understanding and interpretation of Insurance Domain business and technical requirements
• Ability to clearly communicate design rationales and build consensus around designs
• Ability to develop innovative approaches to complex design problems

Required Experience:

• Understanding of business and technical requirements and share the impact analysis
• Estimate the efforts for the changes and review
• Create and Review the design and collaborate with the technical architects
• Implement the changes and create a delivery package for deployment
• Liaise with various stakeholders like Project Manager, Solution Design Team, Testing team and Release management team
• Installation, configuration and upgrading of WAS software and related products
• Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures
• Perform database tuning and performance monitoring
• Perform application tuning and performance monitoring
• Responsible for providing assistance on or conducting the more complicated walk through of technical and operational features functions and attributes of new or existing solutions
• Works on projects/issues of medium to high complexity that require demonstrated knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments. Coaches and mentors more junior technical staff
• Troubleshoot problems, perform testing/quality assurance and support user acceptance testing to ensure successful project implementations
• Adhere to standards, design, documentation and testing while maintaining appropriate quality levels
• Participate in code reviews on others developers’ code
• Compile and write documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instructions so others can understand the program