• Create, maintain, disseminate and validate application development guidelines and standards for all projects.
• Create vision for improvement and drive the processes that lead to better productivity and consistency.
• Manage review process and artifacts for application development toward the goal of mitigating risks.
• Project manage enterprise initiatives potentially encompassing a large team of cross IT area staff toward successful completion.
• Drive the analysis and design of software systems; help shape system requirements, and develop analysis-level documents that reflect the requirements.
• Plan, prioritize and monitor work for matrixed team members working on multiple projects.
• Participate actively in strategic or highly visible projects playing various critical technical roles as needed.
• Actively create, refine, and evangelize processes and technical standards for the department.
• Serve as point of contact between groups within IT

• *Strong judgment, oral and written communication, and leadership skills. The ability of drive decisions through consensus and influence change. The ability to resolve conflict effectively.
• Strong understanding of all technical aspects of large corporate software development; strong client, server, database, and reporting skills.
• A strong computer science background with advanced degree desirable.
• Ideal candidate would be a generalist, able to be flexible in roles yet with an in-depth knowledge of enterprise Java / J2EE applications used for complex problem domains.
• An understanding and direct experience with using various integration technologies and approaches.
• Strong time management and multitasking skills. Ability to determine pragmatic technical solutions to complex business problems.
• Strong understanding of standard software development lifecycle methodologies and project management techniques and methodologies.
• Hands on software development ability, experience, speed, and quality.
• Ability to lead and troubleshoot complex tasks, such as partitioning an application across tiers, establishing transaction boundaries, and selecting integration.
• Possess a strong potential for growth

10+ Years of experience
o Technology R&D
o Large-scale application development
o Java/J2EE
o SQL/Oracle
o Linux/Unix
5+ Years experience with
o Enterprise Architecture / Application Architecture
o Source Code Control Systems and Configuration Management Systems (CVS, Subversion, Git)
o Application Servers (WebLogic, JBoss, Apache)
o Design / UML, Design Patterns
o Design, Architecture and Code reviews of large systems
4+ Years with
o Messaging Technologies
o Integration Technologies
o Profiling / Performance tuning
o ETL / Data Synchronization
3+ Years with
o Spring / Hibernate
o Clustering / Caching
o Continuous Integration; Unit/Integration/Load/Performance Testing
2-3 Years with
o SOA / BPM
o WebServices / SOAP / REST / JSON
o Rich Web GUI / AJAX / JavaScript (and frameworks) / Flash-Flex
o Traditional Web Frameworks like Struts, JSF
o Swing GUI
o Maven
o Lucene / Compass / Hibernate Search
1-2 Years or strong familiarity with
o Emerging Languages (Scala, Ruby, Clojure)
o Spring Web Flow / Seam
o OSGI
o Cloud Apps / Hadoop / MapReduce / Grid Computing
Broadcast Audio / Video experience a plus