Job Details: Sr. Software Engineer (J2EE)
| Job Title: | Sr. Software Engineer (J2EE) |
| Job ID: | TEC2509 |
| Company: | Thomson Healthcare |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | 85,000 |
| Skills: | J2EE, Cognos, WebSphere Portal, AJAX |
| Date Posted: | Feb-28-08 |
Locations: Evanston Illinois, Ann Arbor Michigan or Durham North Carolina.
Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and business performance. Thomson Healthcare products and services help professionals and stakeholders understand healthcare markets, access medical and drug information, manage costs, and improve the quality of healthcare.
The CareDiscovery product, launched in December 2006, is a critical and valuable component for improving the quality of healthcare in the United States. Created using the latest reporting, web delivery and date integration tools and technologies, CareDiscovery provides reporting insight to hospitals and health care facilities into potential areas of performance improvement.
Now approaching its third major release in the past two years, CareDiscovery continues to provide information with even greater depth and value -- information that can help reduce a patient's hospital stay, prevent harmful complications, and ultimately, save lives.
As a lead member of the CareDiscovery team, your ideas, insight and enthusiasm will directly impact the next release of the product. The CareDiscovery team encourages proactive, innovative and pragmatic thinking in a results-driven culture. This can be demonstrated by the following:
Our choice of tools and partners - CareDiscovery is built on industry standard, powerful core platforms -- J2EE, Cognos and WebSphere Portal.
We have implemented and encourage the continued use of advanced web technologies such as AJAX and Web 2.0 concepts.
Additionally, we continue to incorporate numerous open-source technologies, including Hibernate, JSON and the Google Web Toolkit.
Our team remains nimble and manageable (8-10 members max) with continual cross-team learning.
Our team has delivered high quality releases on-time, in-scope and on-budget, and we continue to hit all our milestones.
By joining the CareDiscovery team, you will not only be a part of an exciting and challenging project, but you will be directly improving healthcare in the United States!
Responsibilities:
Coordinate and deliver all application development related activities. Lead a team of 3-5 developers to achieve success in design, development and deployment activities.
Perform hands on development and coding of application components using Java/J2EE, WebSphere Portal, Oracle, AJAX, Hibernate and Cognos.
Mentor and challenge junior software engineers and other team members, while growing your own technical, functional and leadership skills.
Adhere to product engineering methodology while working collaboratively with a variety of product teams (data integration, quality assurance, configuration management, product management).
Perform detailed documentation of design,
development, testing and deployment activities necessary to ensure team knowledge sharing.
Transform business requirements into comprehensive solutions using the appropriate methods, tools and technologies.
Outstanding communication skills (oral, written and presentation) and strong interpersonal skills. Ability to lead a technical team to quality, on-time completion of deliverables is essential.
Must be driven and eager, with an ability and willingness to learn and implement new technologies and software development techniques.
4-6 years of practical experience building web applications using Java/J2EE technologies, including JSP, Servlets, JDBC, EJB, JMS and web services.
Experience developing with the IBM WebSphere family of products, specifically WebSphere Portal, is a strong plus.
Experience with SQL and relational databases, particularly Oracle and SQL Server.
Excellent knowledge of web client-side technologies (HTML, XML, DHTML/Javascript, CSS).
Experience with Java development tools including Struts, log4j, Ant and JUnit.
Experience with UNIX is a plus.
Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle (requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, support).
Ability to mentor and motivate junior engineers.
Ability to accurately estimate application development tasks.
Experience with business intelligence tools such as Cognos or BusinessObjects a plus.
Experience with advanced software design methodologies including RUP, UML, OOA/D.
Healthcare industry experience is a plus.
BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
The H-1B visa cap has been fulfilled for fiscal year 2008 which begins October 1, 2007 and therefore Thomson is unable to sponsor new (first-time) H-1B visas.
Our employees embrace a number of commonly shared values - collaboration, accountability, customer focus, a bias toward action and results, appreciation and respect for diversity, entrepreneurial spirit and, at all times, the highest ethical standards. These values represent the behavior each employee is expected to exhibit in their role. In our view, fostering a culture that embodies these values will lead to success and growth for our employees and our business.
The Thomson Corporation is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
| Location: [rss] | US-MI-Ann Arbor |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
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| Contact Email: | angelle.chandler@contractor.thomson.com |
| URL: | http://www.thomsoncareers.com |
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