Lead Application Developer Java, J2EE, AJAX, Spring, Hibernate, RUP / Agile, Oracle

Description Lead/Mgr Application Development Standard and Poor's is the world's premier provider of investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis. With more than 10,000 employees and offices in nearly two-dozen countries, SandP is valued by investors and financial decision-makers everywhere for its analytical independence, market expertise and thought leadership. For 150 years Standard and Poor's has been an integral part of the global economic infrastructure. Its operations provide essential information to nearly every segment of the global financial community, creating the tools, analysis and research needed to make informed investment decisions.www.sp-150.com Standard and Poor's is seeking a Lead Application Developer to be a key player in the analysis, design, implementation, and support a number of key business critical systems. This role requires a seasoned hands-on technologist who works effectively, both independently and collaboratively in a team environment. The ideal candidate must be delivery-focused and posses broad set of technology skills to actively evaluate and prototype new requirements and build solutions to support new processes as well as streamline existing business operations. The candidate must have financial industry background and will participate in day-to-day operational support, design, development, code reviews, unit testing, and deployment tasks. The responsibilities also include:

Architect, design and develop industry-leading applications to support key business needs
Build components, and common services based on standard corporate development models, languages and tools
Produce system design documents and lead technical walkthroughs
Review business requirements and derive effort estimates
Respond to and resolve production issues

Qualifications
Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering is required, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.
A minimum of 8+ years of strong experience in application development using Java/J2EE technologies, such as: AJAX, JSF, JPA, Hibernate, Top Link, JMS messaging, JSP and JavaScript.
Hands-on experience with Web 2.0 technologies required
Strong Oracle PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, SQL optimization skills a must
Superior knowledge of system architecture, object-oriented design, and J2EE framework and patterns.
Experience in design and deployment of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based components for business solutions
Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like RUP or Agile.
Understanding of financial markets and asset classes like Equity, Commodity, Fixed Income, Options, Index/Benchmarks
Work experience with a financial data vendor a plus
Excellent communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies

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