Job Details: Solutions Architect

Job Title: Solutions Architect
Company: TechReps
Position Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: Up to 160K
Skills: J2EE, Hibernate, JBoss, EJB
Date Posted: Jun-30-08

Middleware Solutions Architect:
Middleware Solutions Architects are highly respected members of the team, with broad
experience in the design, development, deployment, and support of enterprise Java applications.
SAs have a deep understanding of J2EE/JEE and supporting technologies with experience
applying those technologies to solve real-world problems. The Solutions Architect works with the
sales team to provide deep technical insight for the product suite. You will be in front of
customers on a daily basis (both on the phone/web meeting and in person) and will sometimes travel
to client sites. Solutions Architects can listen to customers' technical challenges and can
suggest various solution paths, understanding that "one size does not fit all."

In the evangelist part of the role, you will speak to Java User Groups and others about product and
J2EE/JEE technologies. The Product Management, Consulting/Training, Support, and Core R&D
teams will collaborate with you as needed based upon your interactions with customers. This job
requires constant learning about new technologies and how they can be applied to enterprises.
We are looking for consultants and developers who either have some presales experience or have a
natural talent for talking and presenting to different groups of people. Position provides competitive
base salary plus commission.

Primary Responsibilities will include:
• Providing technical credibility to sales team
• Answer technical questions given to sales team by prospective customers (possibly in the form
of RFPs or RFIs)
• Develop and conduct live demonstrations of products
• Conduct live demonstrations of software products
• Educate prospects on the capabilities of software products
• Identifying the appropriate technologies to solve client problems
• Collect and provide boilerplate responses to competitive FUD
• Form relationships with clients technical staff to identify new opportunities
• Contribute to products via documentation (wiki, quick-start guides, whitepapers) or
development (example usage code, bug fixes, enhancements, suggestions)
• Provide feedback to Product Management on product direction and feature usefulness
(customer applicability)

Required Skills:
• Standard Java Programming (J2SE/JSE APIs like JDBC, JNDI, JAXP, JAAS, etc.)
• Enterprise Java Programming (J2EE/JEE APIs like EJB, Servlet/JSP/JSF, JMS, JAXRPC/
WS, JPA, JTA, JCA, etc.)
• Development/Deployment on J2EE/JEE appservers (JBoss AS, BEA WebLogic, IBM
WebSphere, etc.)
• Real World Enterprise Architecture (Deploying an application to production with significant
usage/criticality to the business)
• Communication (Listening, speaking, "knowing your audience", transmission of concepts
with/without examples, etc.)
• Knowledge of standard design patterns and enterprise integration patterns
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise architectures and multi-tiered applications
• Ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team
• Ability to constantly learn about new technologies and apply those concepts to customers
Needs

Preferred Skills:
• Database design
• Consulting
• Pre-Sales/Sales Engineering
• Technical writing
• Training (especially teaching J2EE/JEE subjects)
• Multilingualism (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese)

Job Requirements: (standard - senior)
• 4-7+ years Standard Java Development
• 3-5+ years Enterprise Java Development (J2EE/JEE)
• 3-5+ years System Architecture

For more information please contact:
Bucky Long, Direct (407) 649-7797
Technical Recruiter, TechReps mailto:blong@techrepsllc.com

Location: [rss] US-MA-BOSTON
Telecommute: No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name: Bucky Long
Contact Phone: 321.363.1585
Contact Email: blong@techrepsllc.com


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