Position Title Senior Java Developer

Position Description
GENERAL SUMMARY: The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for large-scale, e-commerce Web applications development, tools development and maintenance. He/she will interact with the business to provide robust technical solutions to business problems.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Software Design and Development (70%)
• Be responsible for development of large-scale Web applications, related systems and tools, including analysis, design, implementation, unit testing and documentation
• Interact successfully with business owners, project managers and other technical teams
• Contribute to company’s engineering standards and best practices

2. Ongoing Maintenance (30%)
• Participate in application tuning
• Provide production support including on-call support
• Be able to identify, fix and follow through deployment of critical issues
Position Requirements 1) Competencies: Skills, Knowledge, Abilities
Functional
• Expertise and experience in OO design and programming with Java
• Expertise and experience in Web application development with J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JDBC required; JSTL, JMS, JAXP, JDO desirable)
• Expertise in Rich internet applications highly desirable
• Experience in Struts and Tiles highly desirable
• Familiarity with XML, SOAP and Web services preferred
• Expertise in at least one application server; Apache and Tomcat preferred
• Experience with at least one source control system; experience with CVS preferred
• Experience with Linux/Unix and Windows
• Experience with Oracle and SQL

Interpersonal
• Good communication skills
• Work well in a team environment or individually, with a positive attitude
• Interact well with technical teams, business owners and project managers

Leadership
• Follow direction and keep peers and manager informed of progress, changes and issues
• Prioritize own activities so that all tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Accountable for individual work and team work
• Foster and maintain Wal-Mart's three core values:
• Respect for the Individual
• Service to our Customers
• Strive for Excellence

2) Experience:
• 5+ years of experience in Software development including analysis, design, implementation, testing and support
• 4+ years of industrial experience in Java