Senior J2EE Developer/Systems Development Specialist Job in Newark 07101, New Jersey US
Senior J2EE Developer/Systems Development Specialist
Newark, Nj 07101
Prudential's eBusiness Development Group (eDG) is a center of excellence whose mission is to Internet enable Prudential's lines of business to allow them to better serve their clients, producers and prospects and drive incremental business value out of those relationships. Within eDG the Portal development team provides a center of excellence for building state of the art Web and Mobile applications for the Prudential enterprise.
The Portal development team is responsible for developing, implementing and supporting various mission critical applications for the Prudential enterprise and its business units. This open position is for a senior level J2EE developer to join this fast paced and high tech development team.
Responsibilities for this position include:
· Participate in the architecture and system design of J2EE web applications;
· Independently perform hands on development and unit testing of the applications;
· Collaborate with the development team and build individual components into complex enterprise web systems;
· Work in a team environment with business, frontend design, engineering support and QA analysts to deliver a project throughout the whole software development cycle;
· Responsible for application promotions to all environments and environments support;
· Ensure system capacity, performance and 24x7 availability;
· Responsible to identify and resolve any performance issues;
· Provide level 3 production support;
· Follow company software development processes and standards;
· Keep up to date with new technology development and implementation;
· 8 plus years experience in hands on J2EE development;
· Strong experience developing scalable enterprise level J2EE web applications, preferably on Websphere Application Server;
· In-depth knowledge of J2EE web tier components and extensive experience in both the server and client side development;
· Solid experience with Object Oriented design concepts, patterns and software architecture;
· Expertise on Service Oriented Architecture and implementation;
· Experience with leading open source frameworks and development of web services;
· Proficient with database design, SQL and stored procedures; DB2 experience preferred;
· Experience with some automated build tools such as Ant, Subversion, CVS;
· Experience with Websphere Portal and LDAP a plus;
· Familiarity with security industry standards is desirable;
· Experience with large financial companies preferred;
· Ability to work in a team and coordinate with multiple business and technical teams;
· Ability to work in a fast paced environment and deliver production quality software within tight schedules;
· Good verbal and written communication skills, with proven track record of producing use cases, software architecture documentation using UML, sequence and component model diagrams, etc;
· BS degree in computer or related fields preferred;
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