Senior Java Developer (Spring, Hibernate, Agile) Job in Manchester, North West UK

Senior Java Developer (Spring, Hibernate, Agile)
Manchester
Blue Chip Organisation
Salary up to £42k

A great opportunity for senior Java developers in the North West to join a blue chip organisation as Senior Java Developer, based in central Manchester

To be successful in this role you will be an expert in enterprise scale server side applications development using Java Enterprise and Spring Framework, deploying onto a virtualised platform. Experience in web application development using Servlets, JSP, JSTL, Struts, Tiles, Spring MVC, Spring Security (Acegi), DWR, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Ajax) and experience with JQuery would be a distinct advantage.

Tasks Responsibilities:
• Design, development and testing of enterprise software solutions
• Deploy and support solutions through testing environments and work with test/QA teams to ensure quality
• Provide estimates on new feature development, bugs and change requests
• Work with the project manager, enterprise architect and technical lead to prepare designs and functional specifications
• To deliver high quality functional software within agreed time-scales

Skills Required
• Excellent object-oriented analysis, design and development skills that includes a strong knowledge of Java Enterprise design patterns and best practices
• Extensive software development experience in server side Java Enterprise applications that provide a mission critical, high performance and high concurrency business operation
• Extensive experience of the Spring framework (core) and hibernate within a highly transactional environment. Experience of Spring web services, Spring Security, Spring MVC would be advantageous
• A strong understanding and experience of designing and implementing applications for high scalability and availability, experience of testing for non-functional requirements is advantageous
• A strong understanding and experience of working within an Agile/Scrum, Agile/XP environment
• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL, including experience of MYSQL, Oracle or postgres
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to deliver high quality software as part of a team within tight timescales, preferably in a Greenfield environment.
• Good experience of using Eclipse or STS development environment.
• Good experience of Test driven development approaches and implementations, including automation of build, test and deploy
• Experience of Continuous integration and tools (i.e. Hudson/Jenkins)
• Experience of GIT and/or subversion source control tools.
• Experience of virtual solutions and VMware vFabric would be highly advantageous

In return our client is offering a basic salary up to £42k plus benefits. For more information please call Jennifer on 0117 930 8575