Required skills and experience: • At least ten years software development experience; at least four years of technical leadership with independent architectural/design responsibilities; architecting at least one multi-tier, high transaction enterprise application • At least five years of object-oriented analysis and design experience • Working knowledge of J2EE • Thorough understanding of enterprise application integration issues and experience with modern integration technologies • Familiarity with cross-cutting concerns such as security, performance, scalability, maintainability and supportability • Experience in data architecture, and data modeling • Experience managing remotely distributed design and implementation teams • Thorough knowledge of software development life cycle • Proven ability to provide realistic effort estimates • Proven verbal and written communication skills, ability to clearly articulate complex technical issues • Strong presentation skills • Analytical thinking, proactive attitude, self-motivation demonstrated through past experience • Experience in performance and scalability testing and tuning; knowledge of Java profiling tools, Oracle profiling, specifics of Linux/Unix performance. Ability to direct performance and scalability testing and tuning efforts.

Desired skills and experience, which would be considered as an advantage • Familiarity with Insurance Industry • Experience in practicing Agile methodology • Experience with Service Oriented Architecture • Knowledge of leading RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server preferred) • Knowledge of mainframe technologies • Experience with Data Warehousing • Familiarity with Open Source products • Experience with such technologies as Spring, JPA/Hibernate, JSF • Knowledge of Java Application Servers, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat • Experience with code management tools: SVN, Mercurial, Maven, et cetera • Customer communication and management skills Education: • BS CS/CE or equivalent degree required; MS or equivalent experience preferred

• Lead architecture, design and implementation of high transaction, multi-tier enterprise solutions • Interface and collaborate with client technical teams • Lead globally distributed design and implementation teams • Enforce best engineering practices and company policies across solution lifecycle