J2EE Application Developer

Req ID: 1253

Job Title: J2EE Application Developer

Group: Automation and Sys Svcs Group

Location: HO - New York, NY (Head Office)

Job Status: Full-Time

Area Overview:

The Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) of New York has a number of web development initiatives underway. As a member of the Business Systems Development staff, the candidate would participate in the development and implementation of internal and mission critical external distributed web applications. The position is for a Senior Application Developer who has strong experience developing and implementing applications using the J2EE architecture. The candidate will be responsible for building web applications based on the established FRB system architecture and will be involved in the entire project life cycle (requirements gathering, development, deployment and maintenance).




Job Responsibilities:

Participate in the Analysis and Design of Applications with the System Architect and Business users (including business model, security model and Business
components);
Translate Business model and user requirements into
software specifications;
Develop and conduct design walk-throughs;
Build application components based on software
specifications;
Provide support of application deployment and
maintenance;
Support testing (Functional, Performance, Access
controls);
Mentor junior staff members;
Develop documentation artifacts; and
Production support during weekend/off-hours work, when required.





Job Requirements:


Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science and/or relevant work experience;
At least two years of working experience with JAVA,
Servlets, JSPs HTML, JDBC;
Proven working knowledge of the J2EE architecture with hands-on experience using EJBs, both session and Entity Beans;
Strong Object-Oriented Analysis and Design skills,
including requirements analysis, use cases, sequence
diagrams, and UML;
Hands-on WSAD 5.1, Websphere 5.1 and Websphere MQ Series experience;
Ability to mentor junior staff; and
Strong verbal and written communications skills required.


Desirable:
Experience working on CMMI certified projects;
Websphere 6.0 and RAD 6.0 experience;
Junit test tool experience; and
Working knowledge of XML.