Position: Principal  Software Engineer - Java (JDK 1.5/1.6)

Duration: 2 Year Contract

Location: San Diego, CA

Rate: $80 - $89/HR

The client is seeking a Principal Software Engineer - Java for product Life Cycle development to design and develop software for the healthcare industry. Please respond to this job posting if you are interested in this position.

Experience Requirements:

• A minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience in a software engineering role
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 6 to 10 years Java (JDK 1.5/1.6) application design & development experience integrating with SQL databases (MS SQL 2005/2008) on Windows Server 2003/2008 OS
• Experience with application servers such as JBOSS (4.2.X, 5.X)
• Experience with Java Enterprise Application (J2EE) technologies: EJB 2, EJB3/JPA, Hibernate, Java Server Faces, JMS, Seam (2.2.0.GA),  Spring (2.5), Eclipse IDE, Ant (1.7), Middlegen, XDoclet
• Experience with internet/networking protocols and languages: HTML, Javascript, AJAX, and XML processing
• Experience with source code control software such as CVS, Perforce, etc.
• Knowledge of performance tuning, messaging
• Minimum 3 years experience using formal design, construction and release methodologies (e.g. RUP, UML, Agile)
• Minimum 3 years of experience using Application Lifecycle Management tools

Responsibilities:

Applying professional product software development skills in maintaining and creating the next generation of health care product software

• Ensure compliance with client’s quality systems and software development practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams facilitating decisions on new features and problem resolution
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, cross functional teams, risk assessments, and unit test inspections
• Support the field service organization on various aspects of problems at customer sites
• Conduct software issue investigations, risk assessments and associated corrective actions
• Participate in partner engineering engagements, pre-market release implementations of integrations, and conduct applicable training

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent
• Master of Science in Computer or Software Engineering preferred

Travel:

• Position may include travel up to 20% for initial client site installation support and meetings / conferences.