JAva developer
This position is 3-6 month contarct to hire
The purpose of this job is to design, develop, enhance, and support applications within client business unit. This position works in collaboration with Quality Assurance, Product Management, Data Warehousing, Solution Center, and other IT stakeholders to ensure that the applications developed meet the required deliverables. This position takes direction from the higher levels of the applications development team (architects, senior architects, and management).

Major Accountabilities:
Application Development
Develop design deliverables for larger projects and recommend and implement solutions
Assess issues and investigate available technologies to solve business problems
Provide project leadership on mid-sized projects or portion of more complex projects
Work with key stakeholders to understand business requirements and expectations in order to design and develop appropriate product application
Design, develop and enhance product applications that meet customers expectations
Work with the business intelligence" to design and develop appropriate applications that query against the Datawarehouse using clinical and financial data
Collaborate with QA, App Dev, Product Mgmt, Data Warehousing, Solutions Center and other cross functional teams to provide appropriate application development and to update IT stakeholders on progress
Understand and work with the different data sources within client

Attend education sessions and stay abreast of current and changing business and technological environments and enhancements

Troubleshooting
Conduct appropriate testing of applications to ensure quality
Determine software development issues and infrastructure issues and work with appropriate stakeholders to solve problems

Client Relations
Provide clients with necessary reports that assist them in understanding use of products
Collaborate with App Dev team and other cross functional teams to solve product and customer issues

Job Requirements

Education & Experience Required:
A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) required.
Computer Science or related technical discipline
7-10 years experience
Minimum of 8 years general technical experience; minimum of 6 years applications development experience
5-7 years experience with Java, JSP, SQL; Unix and NT Systems experience
3-5 years experience with J2EE, JavaScript, Struts, XML
Development tools experience Spring, Hibernate, ANT, Subversion, Junit; Object Oriented Methodology experience
Agile experience

Knowledge & Skills (COMPETENCIES) Required:
Ability to develop and enhance Web based business applications
Ability to solve problems and trouble shoot to provide solutions
SQL skills
Knowledge of Data Modeling Concepts
Unix and NT Systems knowledge
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of testing and QA procedures
Ability to work autonomously with very limited supervision as well as collaboratively with others.
Ability to manage individual projects and some small projects in team environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Database architecture

Java Web Application Development skills:
Knowledge of Java, JSP, Struts 2, J2EE (JBoss preferred), JavaScript, XML
Unix and NT Systems knowledge
Development tools knowledge Spring, Hibernate, ANT, Subversion, JUnit
Object Oriented Methodology development knowledge