Job Title: Software Architect (Senior Java/J2EE Developer and Technical Lead)
Location : Albany, NY (onsite)
Job Type: Contract
Job Summary: Makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. Designs multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of a large scale software system.
Qualifications

• 84 months experience with J2EE technologies including EJB, JDBC, JSP and XML.
• 84 months experience with Java programming in an IBM development environment using IDE of IBM's Rational Application Developer (RAD) that are deployed to Websphere Application Server (WAS).
• 60 months of IBM DB2 experience working with DB2 databases and experience with XML schemas (definition, querying and automated generation).
• 12 months experience with a Government organization, which includes business knowledge, technical design, development, maintenance and end user support of complex systems.
• 60 months experience in performance tuning applications interacting with databases.
• 60 months of experience in IBM MQSeries
• 84 months of experience in system analysis and design experience for multi-tiered transactional systems and writing technical design specification documents for multifaceted component-based systems.

ResponsibilitiesSystem Development Life Cycle for a multi-tiered complex processing system. The responsibilities will include both new development as well as maintenance tasks. Specific tasks will include:

• Leading the technical design for modernization of legacy systems.
• Coordinating the technical solutions among various technical support groups.
• Making changes in multiple systems in real time to enable changes requested by user group.
• Implementing technical solutions.
• Developing tax processing system components and maintaining existing processing systems.
• Supporting production tasks including analysis of issue, proposing and implementing solutions for defect resolution.
• Coordinating with development team on development activities and integration testing.
• Developing technical design documents and program specifications.
• Guiding requirements gathering sessions.
• Guiding the analysis of requirements and system design work.
• Coding, and performing unit and integration tests of programming assignments.
• Writing and tuning SQL
• Supporting user testing efforts.
• Performance tune new and existing applications.
• Mentoring less experienced staff.