Jersey City, NJ

Job Description

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a VP - Java Developer for a direct placement with one of our premier financial services clients in Jersey City, NJ .

Responsibilities :

• Write good and well-tested code in Java
• Daily Coding as an Individual Contributor
• SOA API middleware implementation (both REST and SOAP)
• MOM Messaging middleware implementation
• Workflow Integration
• Writing High Performance Parallel Processing using Multi-Threading and Multi-Processing
• Write user/supporter documentation
• Writing Unit Tests and participating in dev testing throughout the SDLC (SIT, UAT, etc)
• Development environment support (mostly automation using Jenkins CI, Bash, BitBucket)
• Evaluate and adopt new dev tools, libraries, and approaches to improve delivery quality
• Perform peer code review of project codebase changes

Required Skills :

• At least 5 years of experience in industry of software development
• At least 3 years of experience as Java software developer
• Java concurrency (practical experience and good knowledge)
• Experience in developing distributed systems
• At least 3 years of experience writing both REST and SOAP Web Services.
• Expert Knowledge of: Threading, Collections, Exception Handling, JDBC, Java OOD/OOP Concepts, GoF Design Patterns, MoM and SOA Design Patterns, File I/O, and parsing XML and JSON, delimited files and fixed length files, String matching, parsing, building, working with binary data / byte arrays.
• Java concurrency (practical experience and good knowledge)
• Good Knowledge of Spring including Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Web, Spring Data
• Good knowledge of SQL (Oracle dialect is preferable)
• Good knowledge of JAX-RS / REST and JAX-WS SOAP Web Services
• Good knowledge of JAXB / XML and JSON
• Experience in developing distributed systems
• Experience in Microservices development
• Up-to-date overview of modern software development tools and techniques

Preferred Skills :

• Messaging Systems: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka, Tibco. IBM MQ, etc.
• Tomcat, Jetty, Apache HTTPD
• Able to work with build/configure/deploy automation tools
• Linux Ecosystem
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Autosys
• APIm
• APM Tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc.
• Caching Technologies: Hazelcast, MemCached, Redis etc

SGA is a Certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) celebrating over thirty years of service to our national client base for both permanent placement and consulting opportunities. For consulting positions, we offer a variety of benefit options including but not limited to health & dental insurance, paid vacation, timely payment via direct deposit. SGA accepts transfers of H1 sponsorship for most contracting roles. We are unable to sponsor for Right-to-Hire, Fulltime, or Government roles. All parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply for all roles. Only those authorized to work for government entities will be considered for government roles. Please inquire about our referral program if you would like to submit a candidate for any of our open or future job opportunities. SGA is an EEO Employer: Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. To view all of our available job postings and/or to learn more about SGA please visit us online at www.sgainc.com .