Fantastic opportunity to join one of the Premier Consulting Firms in the world as a Java Consultant.  Candidates MUST BE US Citizens.

Key Delivery Responsibilities May Include: 

• Working with the client's technical infrastructure and operations teams to support environment build-outs for technical solutions.
• Collaborating with the client's business owners to identify desired functionality, business requirements, and business use cases
• Working with other technical architects and leads to gather requirements, define roadmaps, and define technical architectures and solution designs from business and/or technical requirements, applying best practices and design patterns
• Performing technology architecture design activities, portions of technology build, test and implementation activities, refine and enhance architecture and framework, as well as troubleshoot and debug technology integration problems.
• Defining and establishing development architectures, which includes automated and continuous build capabilities
• Designing and developing proof of concepts as needed, integrating new components with back office systems during the design and requirements phase to evaluate products and integration strategies
• Possessing familiarity with common, relevant architecture frameworks and being able to use them in diagnosing and assessing architectures.
• Assisting in project selection of framework and third party architecture and integration frameworks, taking into consideration all relevant requirements, project scope and feasibility concerns.
• Driving quality assurance, code reviews, testing of application modules, and delivery methodology processes to ensure successful project delivery and client satisfaction
• Leading the estimation effort for projects and work to identify and manage risk
• Communicating effectively with team members and clients to gain the required knowledge to perform these tasks
• 100% US travel (Monday-Thursday) required with potential to stay Friday depending on project need

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 1 year experience with architecture design skills
• Minimum of 2 years experience with application development, configuration, and delivery enablement
• Minimum of 2 years experience with management, administration, and customization using one or more of the following:  Rational Application Developer, Rational Software Architect, Eclipse, CruiseControl, LuntBuild, .Net, Maven, Visual Source Safe, Subversion, ClearCase, or PVCS.  
• Experience with one or more of  the following Application Servers and Operating Systems : WebSphere, WebLogic, Sun AS, Glass Fish, JBoss, Tomcat, Unix, Windows 
• Minimum of 1 year Java experience or formal training
• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Skills:

• A minimum 1 year of Java experience strongly preferred
• Delivery methodologies such as Agile, XP, SCRUM, Model Drive, RUP, and Waterfall
• Previous Consulting and/or Client Service Delivery experience
• Minimum of 3 years experience with Java, Java EE, Open Source Software, and/or .Net
• Object oriented programming languages (Java, C#, C++)
• Software frameworks such as Spring, Spring MVC, Struts, and Hibernate
• Application configuration management implementation and build experience, including continuous integration using tools such as Maven and Cruise Control
• Automated testing using Junit or Nunit
• Software development estimating techniques
• Code complexity and quality analysis-usage of profiling tools such as JProbe 
• Load scripting tools-such as HP Loadrunner for performance testing
• Systems testing and validation
• Build and migration experience
• Source control tools such as Subversion, CVS, ClearCase, PVCS, or Visual Studio
• Technical deployment and roll-out support 
• QA/Defect Tracking tools such as ClearQuest and Mercury Quality Center