[oak perl] job listing

Kester Allen kester at gmail.com
Mon May 2 08:40:38 PDT 2005


Hi All--

I got an email from a headhunter the other day-- most of the jobs were
in the LA area, but the following is in SF.  I thought I'd pass it on
to the group to see if anyone is interested.

The headhunter's info is:

Al Karaptian
eQuest Solutions
310.937.3388
al at eQuestSolutions.com

I have the list of LA jobs if anyone is interested in those.

--Kester


Web Architect

Location:          San Francisco, CA

Salary:              $140K + bonus + OT + options + full relocation
(if necessary)

 

Do you have experience with Architecting web–based and/or commercial
software products?

 

If so and you are interested in the following position, please send me
your updated resume as a word doc attachment that details all of your
experience, at each employer, including your experience architecting
web based and/or commercial software products utilizing OOD/D, design
patterns and formal development methodologies, architectures based on
the J2EE framework and any EAI/Middleware experience.

 

A leading Global ASP (Application Service Provider) of web-based and
interactive online training courses with related program management
tools and services is looking for a Sr Web Architect. This private
company has been in business for 10+ years, has been profitable the
last 4+ years, has 150+ employees and has 100+ large Fortune 100 and
500 customers located across the world.

 

The Sr Systems/Web Architect will be responsible for the initial
design and development of a new architecture, based on business and
technical requirements, in order to bring the company's latest
generation of products to market.  The Sr Architect will have complete
responsibility for the technical design and deployment of this new
architecture from beginning to end.  The Sr Architect will respond to
definition of business process workflow using comprehensive design and
development methodologies (i.e. Rational) that models workflow. The
company currently has a legacy system that its current ASP model is
based on.  This system is primarily developed in Mod_Perl and some
Java on Linux, running on Apace web servers and Resin/Tomcat App
Servers running on Linux and Oracle running on Solaris.  The company
is using Perforce for CM and Mercury's tool suite for Q/A.  The Sr
Architect will be responsible for utilizing his/her extensive
experience with design patterns and OO development
methodologies/standards to architect a new system based on the J2EE
framework.  Furthermore, the Sr Architect will utilize a EAI strategy
to integrate the existing legacy system with the newly designed
architecture.  More specifically, the candidate will create object
designs and models, use cases, writing proof of concepts, performing
due diligence, re-factoring and documentation. Then, the Sr Architect
will be responsible for defining, documenting and implementing Best
Practices and Coding Standards for development and perform code review
and mentor 10-20 sr. and mid-level J2EE developers.

 

Furthermore, the Sr Architect will conduct technical and leadership
presentations to the Board of Directors, Sr Management and premier
clients to promote the systems architecture that you have proposed.
Candidate will be responsible for the following: Recommend project
scope and milestones, which support the systems architecture you have
recommended while at the same time recognizing the company's
resources. Promote milestone accountability within the entire Software
Development department. Estimate scope of work using a
deliverables-based toolset. Write proposals, statements of work,
status reports and internal summary documents, as required. Promote
the team's decisive progress towards teamwork and unity. Promote
diversity in culture and thought process to encourage creative
thinking and unique solutions to challenging technical and
interpersonal issues. Recommend ways that may improve the personal
productivity of each team member. Provide mentorship, encouragement,
and cross-pollination opportunities to members of your team.

 

Sr Architect will report to the VP of Technology.

 

Company offers stock options, matching 401(k), Medical Insurance,
Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Long Term
Disability, Employee Assistance Program, Supplemental Insurance,
vacation time starts accruing on your first day (15 days per year),
Paid Holidays (11 days per year), Sick leave (6 days per year),
Employee Referral Bonus Program and Paid parking.

 

REQUIREMENTS:

MUST experience architecting web based and/or commercial software
products (NOT internal proprietary applications/systems) from scratch

Preferred: Candidate who, at some point in career worked with
Enterprise software company, i.e. Ariba, E.Phipany, Baan, Clarify,
Oracle, Peoplesoft, WebLogic, etc. as a J2EE Architect (Implementation
Engineers not a fit.  Need someone who has designed and built the
actual product)

MUST have been through multiple releases of software.

J2EE architect expert

MUST have extensive experience with design patterns and formal
development methodologies (i.e. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
OOA/OOD, Rational Suite, Rational Unified Process/RUP, UML, Rational
Rose, TogetherJ, MS Visio, Methodologies: (OMT, Rumbaugh, Bachmann, HP
Fusion, Booch, Jacobsen, OOSE, Catalysis, XP, CASE-1, CPD, Method 1,
RAD, Turner, Waterfall, Weiss and Yourdin), Design Patterns: (Factory,
Façade, Singleton, Adapter, Iterator, Composite, Command, MVC, Struts
and Proxy)

MUST have experience designing architectures based on the J2EE framework.

MUST have strong hands-on OOD and/or software engineering background

MUST have hands-on experience with the J2EE framework and recent
hands-on server side Java development

Ability to create design patterns, object models and to evaluate architectures

Experience utilizing EAI/Middleware to integrate large systems

Experience with messaging systems (i.e. JMS, MQ Series) and real-time
data synchronization requirements

Experience scaling and building multiple versions of same product
including major upgrades and enhancements.

Content management and workflow systems experience a plus

MS or PhD in CS or related degree


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