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Overall Job Purpose:

•        Responsible for the technical implementation of a project.

•        Deliver high quality development using diverse tools and systems including but not limited to:

o        SOA (WSDL/XSD/XML)

o        Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

o        Spring (WS/IOC/Integration)

o        Hibernate

o        Oracle Coherence

o        Multi-tiered infrastructure including load balancers, databases, apache, application servers etc.

o        JUnit/TestNG/Cucumber

•        Strong understanding of key initiatives including:

o        Agile development practices (Scrum/Kanban).

o        “DevOps” including continuous deployment.

o        TDD – Test driven development

•        Work across multiple phases of software development within a project as a team member or dealing with the most technically challenging assignments. This includes:

       Working directly with business areas to clarify detailed technical requirements.

       Designing, coding and unit testing the most complex software components for new or enhanced IT systems to a high level of quality, producing appropriate documentation.

       Providing technical support to business analyst/project managers and coaching to less experienced staff across a geographically dispersed teams.

       Maintaining an expert level awareness of relevant software design techniques, development tools and processes, providing leadership in the use of these across the organization area.

       Assist in periodic system evaluation to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Key Accountabilities & approximate time split (%)

(Ideally 4-10 points, or headings with sub-points. Quantify where possible e.g. cost/income budget, no of subordinates, likely no of yrs/mths to complete longest task. Could note key external/internal lateral relationships) 

Technical Knowledge

•        Can describe the overall function of several components in the technical platform.

•        Demonstrated very strong level of technical expertise both within own area of responsibility and other IT domains.

•        Has comprehensive understanding of full development lifecycle and is actively involved in all phases.

•        8+ years of experience designing and implementing end-to-end solution architectures for large and complex systems. Extensive experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), systems design, development, integration and executing n-Tier applications.

•        6+ years of software development experience on a J2EE platform.

•        4+ years of software development experience in standard J2EE frameworks that include Spring and Hibernate.

•        4+ years of experience in Web Services design and development preferably Spring WS.

•        Experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns including

•        Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

•        Java Messaging Services (JMS).

•        Experience with caching technologies like Terracotta and Coherence.

•        Experience with continuous development and tools like Jenkins.

•        Experience using build technologies like Maven

General

•        Ensure all SLA’s are met for assigned tasks.

•        Perform on-call support and pager duties as assigned by Team lead.

•        Report over or under allocation to the Team lead, forecast work remaining, identify and communicate variance to plan.

•        Ensuring smooth transition of application into production

Software Design, Programming and Unit Testing

•        Designing software modifications from supplied requirements and design specifications using agreed standards and tools, achieving well-engineered results that follow the agreed implementation level software architectures.

•        Taking responsibility for the design, coding, testing, and documentation (as defined by the SDLC process) of particularly large, complex or mission critical software programs.

•        Proposing options and preparing cost estimates to enable the business area to make informed decisions.

•        Adhere to all BCUS and BTG standards, Policies and governance practices.

•        Assume ownership of various initiatives across Solutions Delivery and/or BTG as agreed with Team Lead for complete and successful delivery.

•        Provide functional expertise within his/her skills to assist delivery team members, and foster collaboration with in BTG.

•        Provide issue response and root cause analysis on work assigned by Team Lead and Project Lead.

•        Planning, designing and conducting Unit and System Integration Tests, correcting errors and re-testing to deliver an error-free product.

•        Reacting quickly and as necessary to live software errors and service problems, limiting downtime and resolving the problem during project handover.

•        Report progress, delays and risks on assigned activities to Project Lead and Team Lead.

•        Raise awareness when existing code, systems or processes do not meet current quality expectations and standards.

•        Maintain code and all related artifacts in source control; perform code merges and resolve conflicts as defined by development process, update documentation and automated tests.

•        Develop code, configuration files, build scripts, schemas or other artifacts  as assigned by Team Lead.

•        Develop system integration test to verify the code running in its functional environment.

•        Work with the Project Lead and Team Lead to schedule features into Releases.

•        Create implementation plans and Change Management Requests as assigned.

•        Maintain accurate feature status during development by the agreed upon SLA.

•        Verify build and deployment completeness of the features owned in the QA environment before making it available for Testing.

•        Review the feature requirements as presented by the Business Analyst and the delivery team, in context of the overall project feature set and existing implementation.  Translate requirements to technical concepts.

•        Contribute to the logical/physical data models, class diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and UI prototypes.

•        Assist QA and production testing and deployment; assume ownership of the work until it passes successful Production Verification Test.

•        Test all code, content, build and unit test changes in the lowest environments first, if such environments exist.

•        Taking part in reviews of own work and leading reviews of colleagues’ work.

Capability Growth

•        Maintaining an expert understanding of software delivery process and of technology developments relevant to own team(s)/software.

Internal and External IT Environment

Deep understanding of the internal and external environment related to own IT department/function:

•        Can identify the specific functions and responsibilities and key customers and relationships of own IT department/function

•        Can describe rationale for major IT initiatives and identify major IT issues.

•        Contributes to the development and implementation of standards and procedures.

•        Considers buy/sell/hold list and architectural road map during design phase of a project.

•        Can discuss potential risks and benefits of emerging technologies

•        May participate in the evaluation and implementation of new technologies.

Business Knowledge

Familiar with the details of at least one business:

•        Can propose system solutions within component or application to business issues.

•        Can provide clear communication of technical concepts to non-technical business users.

Functional Analysis (Business)

Experienced with standard methods, tools and techniques for requirements definition:

•        Can describe deliverables associated with the requirements analysis and definition.

•        Familiar with policies, practices and standards for defining functional requirements.

•        Can identify key factors and information needed for effective design

Development/Configuration.

Has a deep understanding of the overall development process and an advanced knowledge in one or more of the main phases:

•        Experienced with multiple programming languages including their standard tools and libraries.

•        Can discuss similarities, differences, advantages and drawbacks of different languages.

•        Knowledge of the major tools in a toolkit for a specific platform

•        Has developed and executed a full spectrum of tests on multiple applications and environments.

•        Experienced with testing complex, multi-platform, distributed applications.

•        Can discuss considerations for selecting optimal testing environment for specific applications.

•        Coordinates deployment tasks with end-user, operations and quality management.

•        Has experience with alternative implementation plans.