Sr. Java Consultant

Talented Engineer Opportunity

Client is looking for a talented engineer to execute on and contribute to the development of technical solutions, specifically in the content media space. The role will be end-to-end from understanding the goals and roadmaps of the product and other engineering teams, through the design and architecture of any solution and the delivery and maintenance of those platforms once in place. This person will participate in the definition of product requirements being able to articulate how the engineering effort will align to those requirements and provide accurate estimates of the effort. Working in a small team, this person will work with the lead engineer and focus on building efficient, reliable, supportable and maintainable workflows to deliver on the project requirements. They will be expected to produce consistent documented code, communicate with the QA team to ensure quality and be able to speak to and demonstrate their work.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain highly scalable, high performance and highly available workflows.
• Design, develop, test, deploy new solutions as well as maintaining, integrating and improving existing solutions.
• Write well tested, efficient and readable code. The code should also be strongly structured with a view to reusability.
• Ensure that all deliverables follow best practices around source control, and can be incorporated in to continuous integration and deployment patterns.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Participate in preparing business cases, requirements documents and product roadmaps for new concepts.
• Ensure that solutions are in line with the other deliverables of the workflow team and produce documentation so that others learn from and contribute to the work.
• Attend, and contribute to meetings as required.

Skills:

• Experience following and implementing software design patterns.
• 2 years with Java 8 as well as recent production experience deploying Java based applications using Spring, Hibernate and Spring Boot
• Some familiarity with BPM based workflows utilizing Activity, JBOSS, SWS or Camunda a major bonus
• Building message based AMQP software architectures, including designing message payloads and exchange queuing patterns
• REST API design experience, use of message queues or other loosely coupled architectures.
• Experience in designing and supporting relational databases, and a strong understanding of SQL
• Some exposure to content workflow based development, video and audio manipulation a bonus.
• Some familiarity with designing for the cloud, particularly AWS.
• Experience with and exposure to unit testing, test driven development, branching patterns and continuous integration deployment
• Good communication skills with ability to facilitate conversations with business stakeholders in project definition, business requirements definition and functional design sessions.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2 years engineering experience.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related subject.

Additional Qualifications:

• Professional certification in Java
• Professional certification in AWS