Backend Database Developer Jobs in New Britain, CT

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Position : Applications Developer | Level IV (WebSphere Portal Developer)

Duration : 6 Months (temp to perm)

Location : HARTFORD, CT 06183

Job Description

As a key part of the strategic initiatives in Business described above, Client is seeks a WebSphere Portal Developer who will actively participate and contribute to design and delivery activities within the organization. Candidate will perform Portal and Portlet level design and development as well as development of server-side components to satisfy front-end requirements. Responsibilities may be in any of the strategic initiatives related to Policy Administration, Work Management or Underwriting Workstation. These initiatives will employ advanced technologies and methodologies in order to deliver critical business functionality incrementally and adhering to architectural principles of reuse and multi-device deployment. Working within the application development team as well as Business Insurance IT Architecture and enterprise technology organizations.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform portal and portlet level design and development

• Development of server-side components to satisfy front-end requirements

• Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques and best practices

• Work closely with UX designers, business partners, business analysts and software architects to deliver highly usable software that satisfies the business requirements

• Convert wireframes into workable prototypes for business review, design validation and usability testing

• Develop HTML, CSS and JavaScript artifacts

• Work with WebSphere portal architect to convert CSS and other artifacts into portal themes, layouts and skins

• Work closely with backend engineers and architects to suggest and plan the best solution with the UX in mind

Two years' experience in the following:

• WebSphere Portal

• Java based Portal Technologies (JSR286)

• Development platforms (J2EE)

• Web service design

• JavaScript development

Other key experience:

• Strong technical design and programming skills

• Proficiency in JavaScript; experience with JavaScript frameworks, specifically Sencha ExtJS experience a strong plus.

• Solid understanding of HTML and CSS

• Component-based design

• Application Integration

• Middleware technologies including ESB is a plus - especially DataPower

• Object-oriented design experience (UML a plus)

• Java, JSF, Java UI frameworks (Struts, SEAM, Spring) or transferrable skills from similar technologies such as .NET

• Ajax experience, including developing or working with services (RESTful or otherwise)

• Transaction design (OLTP, Batch, etc.)

• SQL development experience (exposure to Oracle database development a plus)

Competences:

• Experience with all phases of with the systems development life cycle (SDLC) using agile methodologies

• Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques and best practices

• Excellent problem analysis and problem solving skills

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with peers, partners and customers

• Ability to develop and present technical concepts to a business audience

• Prior experience with iterative development is a plus

• Ability to rapidly learn technical/business techniques and disciplines

• Strong commitment to high quality work and timely deliverables

• Insurance knowledge is a plus

Ritika Bharti

USTechSolutions

Phone No. #201-932-0831