Java Developer

Job Title - Java Developer

Location Evanston, IL

Duration 4-6 Months CTH

Rate - DOE

U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Only Locals who are GC/USC who can go to clients' office 2- 3 days a week

• Current work setup (hybrid model)

  • 2 Days - Work from client site
  • 3 Days - Work from home

Other requirements

• Dress Code: Formal dress code when working from client location.
• Vaccination: Client require candidate to be fully vaccinated, as their facility is fully vaccinated area.

• 8+ years' experience in software development on Java Platform
• Strong understanding of RDBMS concepts, with ability to understand and write complex queries, stored procedures, analytical skills.
• Experience in development and production support environment.
• As a senior developer ability to work independently, highly motivated self-starter and a good team player with ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Ability to perform effort estimation, breakdown workload into MVP.

Strong Communication skills

• Primary Skills: Very Strong with extensive knowledge and experience in -

o Java 6 and above o Hibernate 2.5 and above.

o Spring Framework 2.5 and above o Eclipse Keplar and current. Other similar IDE o SQL (Actual language not just using ORM)

o JBoss (Preferred 5 or 7)/Wildfly o Maven o Experience in UX (HTML, CSS, Java script )

o Struts Framework o Tomcat (preferred version 7 or above)

o Linux o Ant/Ivy o Freemarker o Analytical Skills: Ability to perform root cause analysis, identify the defect area reported by client/ production support tickets. Ability to understand complex business processes & workflow, functional & technical process of application. Identify and resolve database related performance and/or other issues.

o Tools:

SVN & GIT: SVN and GIT are used as source code repository, hence must have knowledge and experience using these tools.

TFS: Experience in using TFS for agile projects.

JIRA and Confluence: JIRA is used for product support and enhancement ticket. Confluence is the document repository.

o Methodology:

Agile - Normal course of project execution is under Agile methodology. Hence knowledge and experience to work in agile structure (Sprints, retrospectives, etc)

Secondary:

o Postgres o XSL/XSLT o Excel o Experience with AS/400 (iSeries) & DB2

o Perl o Adeptia ETL or similar o JasperReports o iText

Good To have

o Experience in migration Java 6 to newer version o Experience in updating Java 6 code base for latest browser compatibility .