Java Architect

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence.

Job Description:

The Java Architect will be responsible for leading multiple projects on the IE Team within the Technology Engineering & Architecture organization. The IE group is responsible for managing a Distributed Architecture Framework hosting J2EE and .Net (internet & intranet) applications. The ideal candidate will have a background in technical infrastructure management and engineering, with a history of hands-on experience, not just conceptual understanding.

Responsibilities include:

-- Facilitate In-depth technical consultation with developers and Technical Service Providers (TI) for new projects

-- Troubleshooting complex application integration points and coordinating with virtual team members across the enterprise to deliver complex J2EE hosting solutions

-- Manage multiple projects concurrently and be readily adaptable to change. Additionally this person is expected to be self-motivated, a strong leader, able to influence others and able to think creatively.

-- Manage and work closely with application teams deploying new applications in the Weblogic/Websphere hosting environment(s). Able to gather application configuration needs and facilitate changes with administrators and product vendor (when need be) to resolve technical configuration or application issues etc.

-- Liaison between application teams and administrators for hardware and/or software upgrades

-- Create detailed project budgets that include hardware, software, & resource costs.

-- Demonstrate the ability to create and execute project plans on time and on budget

-- This is a senior level position which typically requires 5 or more years of systems experience

Required Skills:

-- Strong written and oral communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills

-- Be able to manage multiple complex technical projects

-- Ability to quickly adapt to changes

-- Knowledge of Hardware Infrastructure, Local Area Networks, and System Development Life Cycle

-- Strong background in Infrastructure Engineering

-- 4+ years of experience designing and architecting solutions

-- Past experience as Java/J2EE developer

-- Strong experience with frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Struts.

-- Extensive experience with: RDBMS, Web Application servers (Websphere, Weblogic, JBOSS), Web Server load balancing (GTM/LTM)

-- Demonstrate the ability to create and execute project plans on time and on budget

-- Ability to lead a project team consisting of resources that are not direct reports (virtual team)

Desired Skills:

-- OO (Object Oriented) Enterprise Application Development

-- Knowledge of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) concepts

-- Unix shell (ksh) & Perl scripting

-- SSO (Simplified Sign-On), Siteminder

-- Working knowledge of: Weblogic (9.x, 10.x or web center), Oracle (10G & 11), Solaris ( 9, 10), Resonate/GTM/LTM, iPlanet/SUNOne or Apache, MQ Series

-- Capacity planning

-- Building out and maintaining Disaster Recovery environment

## Additional Information

To know more about this position or to schedule an interview, Please contact:

Mohit Nikam

Email: mohit.nikam(at)collabera.com

T: 9738044224