The Sr. Programmer Analyst - JAVA position is responsible for leading the development team on efforts affecting multiple systems which includes designing, coding, implementing and maintaining the following systems: Our external websites, and configuration tools our business partners use to run the day-to-day business. Work closely with the business community to understand the business processes and needs / requirements of business clients. Develop, analyze, and document changes required in the IT systems to fulfill requirements submitted by the users/business partners.

Essential Functions:

• Act as consultant to Client business units by providing solutions to complex business issues through:
  • Research, development and implementation of cutting-edge technical solutions.
  • Performing due diligence with internal customers.
  • Recommending Business System functionality.
  • Assisting in developing business requirements.
  • Assisting in developing Business Cases.
• Serve as task manager working with users, programmers and other client functional areas in development and installation of projects. These can be complex projects implemented across one or more platforms.
• Participate with team members in priority planning: estimating resource requirements, project planning and scheduling for programming projects.
• Implement complex projects through:
  • Creating and interpreting complex design documents independently and explaining to team members as necessary.
  • Design unit test plans to thoroughly test all enhancements.
  • Conduct code and design walk throughs.
  • Review unit test output from others.
  • Set up and execute system test.

• Assist in functional area systems issues cause determination and resolution.
• Write code independently.

Responsibilities:

• Understand generally accepted analysis and design techniques.
• Must become proficient in the daily operations.
• Strong knowledge of application development/maintenance for on-line and batch programming.
• Knowledge of different modes of communication (e.g. FTP, JDBC, etc.).
• Expert knowledge of Java EE technologies (ranging from EJB to JSP), HTML, CSS
• Strong knowledge of SQL or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle DB (10g or higher preferred)
• Expert knowledge of dump analysis techniques.
• Expert in testing techniques and knows all testing requirements of systems supported.
• Able to work under pressure, meet deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to interface with customers, clients and other departments to respond to requests both in written and verbal form.
• Must possess communication skills that will help in determining customer’s exact needs and in disseminating that information to appropriate personnel.

Experience

• Minimum of five years experience using Java, FTP, SQL, Visio, Excel in an eCommerce environment
• Minimum two years experience working through the design, development and release cycle delivering software to market.
• Minimum two years experience working with 3^rdparty integrations such as Paypal, Coremetrics, BazaarVoice, Adobe Omniture, etc.
• Spring framework and Hibernate experience preferred.