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Job title

Software Developer (Websphere) Senior Principal

Company Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, Minnesota, Saint Paul
Employment type Full Time
Education Bachelor
Year Experience 3 - 4 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 6/19/2008
Description
Software Developer (Websphere) Senior Principal
Requisition # 2587
Job Summary:

Responsible for providing technical leadership with business areas, project teams and IT technical teams, as well as Software Developer Principals and outsourced vendors to ensure high quality application design and delivery services. Assists in establishing standards and guidelines. May manage resources and mitigates risk through multiple environments. Focuses on leading technical teams on projects of a complex to highly complex nature.

Accountabilities:

1. Oversees work on large project initiatives to define scope and application integration points, ensuring consistency of design approach.
2. Leads conceptual design of applications focusing on user experience, navigation in applications or on complex transactional applications, interfacing with architecture to create overall designs.
3. Leads technical staff on large project initiatives involving many varied factors including new technology implementation and/or system integration.
4. Participates as a highly technical expert in design, development, coding, testing, and debugging new software or making significant enhancements to existing software.
5. Leads project teams to understand highly complex software problems that must be organized, interpreted, and considered, and are of a major scope with many assumptions made.
6. Coordinates and leads staff to implement recommended performance application enhancements. Interfaces with Engineering and Operations departments ensuring application performance and capacity and that SLA’s are developed and met.
7. Leads product support effort including release management, planning, environment setup and support, and install coordination. Develops standards and guidelines, coordinates training efforts, and reviews solutions for appropriate product utilization and adherence.
8. Leads user group activities, provides support on product related issues and assists with the management of the vendor relationship. Manages the application portfolio.
9. Provides training in areas of new technology to teams or individuals. Establishes standards and shares expertise and experience to assist other team members.
10. Participates during strategic discussions leading to formalized requirements.
11. Reviews and approves program specifications.
12. Creates and maintains technical and architectural documentation.
13. Consults with business areas, IT cross-divisional technical resources and external customers regarding system scope, objectives and solutions.
14. Leads quality assurance review of major projects and the evaluation and documentation of team procedures. Coordinates activities for test environment setup and maintenance.
15. Assists the manager with resources and staff assignments, interviewing for staff and consultants, and providing performance feedback on employees.

Required Qualifications:

1. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field and 8 years Java development experience. If no degree, then a minimum of 12 years of Java development experience.
2. (4) years middleware software experience with Websphere MQ.

3. (3) years experience Websphere portal server and Websphere Application Server.
4. Portal development with Rational tools for deployment to Websphere Portal Server
5. Experience as technical lead for teams of 3 - 5 developers.
6. Experience and knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, DB2, etc.)
7. Must be able to demonstrate technical expertise/experience in developing and supporting custom applications:
- Rational Application Developer/Rational Software Architect (RAD/RSA) or Websphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD).
-Portal development with Rational tools for deployment to Websphere Portal Server.
-Implement and support portal solutions from GUI design wireframes.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Technical Certification
2. Participation in user groups (ACM, IEEE)
3. Must be able to demonstrate technical expertise/experience in developing and supporting custom applications.
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Experience/Skills
Required Qualifications:

1. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field and 8 years Java development experience. If no degree, then a minimum of 12 years of Java development experience.
2. (4) years middleware software experience with Websphere MQ.

3. (3) years experience Websphere portal server and Websphere Application Server.
4. Portal development with Rational tools for deployment to Websphere Portal Server
5. Experience as technical lead for teams of 3 - 5 developers.
6. Experience and knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, DB2, etc.)
7. Must be able to demonstrate technical expertise/experience in developing and supporting custom applications:
- Rational Application Developer/Rational Software Architect (RAD/RSA) or Websphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD).
-Portal development with Rational tools for deployment to Websphere Portal Server.
-Implement and support portal solutions from GUI design wireframes.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Technical Certification
2. Participation in user groups (ACM, IEEE)
3. Must be able to demonstrate technical expertise/experience in developing and supporting custom applications.

Other desired skills:
Developer, Websphere, Java, middleware, portal, rational, RAD, RSA,GUI
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