Sr. Tech Recruiter Job Posting

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Job Title:	Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant, Technology
Company:	Teach For America
Position Type:	Permanent
Pay Rate:	130K
Skills:	Portal Websphere Developer
Date Posted:	Jul-15-09

Teach For America is developing a private, secure website for Teach For America corps members, alumni and staff. This site will include important information ranging from teacher support and development resources, to regional information and alumni career development resources. In addition, the site will be a highly functional venue for sharing knowledge of all types related to the mission of Teach For America. This unique and innovative online platform will help fuel the movement to eliminate educational inequity.

The Sr. Portal Architect will play an integral role in the ongoing development of Teach For America's extranet called TFANet, which is built upon a full compliment of IBM technology. This position will be primarily responsible for architecting Java-standard portlet-based applications on this IBM platform and leading the development team. In addition, this position may be expected to aid in the design of a message-based enterprise service bus. The Sr. Portal Architect must be comfortable working in a heterogeneous technical environment, follow Teach For America's proscribed technical guidance and possess a diverse set of skills. This position reports to the VP, Enterprise Architecture.

Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for the position.

Competencies:
• 8+ years experience developing increasingly complex and sophisticated software, of which 3 years were at the senior/architect level
• 5+ years designing and developing software in a WebSphere environment
• 5-7 years experience in core Java and J2EE custom-software development
• Strong Struts, Spring, and Webflow 1/2 and object/relationship modeling experience (Torque, Hibernate, IBATIS, etc.)
• Excellent knowledge of Design Patterns, UML, Object Oriented analysis and design
• Experience architecting and documenting complex large scale systems incorporating packaged and custom applications
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, especially in a complex application stack.
• Strong experience with configuring WebSphere Edge Server, DynaCache, and WebSphere Content Manager (WCM)
• Experience with JavaScript, including AJAX and JSON (Dojo a plus)
• Experience working with DB2, Tivoli Directory Server and Tivoli Directory Integrator
• Experience with role-based security protocols and integration schemes eg SAML, WS-SECURITY
• Experience with deployment tools such as ANT, wsadmin, xmlaccess etc
• Experience with performance testing automation eg RPT, JUnit
• Experience with UNIX operating system (preferably RedHat Enterprise Linux)
• Working knowledge of Portal Document Manager

Optional but a plus:
• Experience leveraging RESTful APIs in the development of custom portal applications
• Experience or working knowledge of IB M Lotus collaboration tools eg Quickr, Connections
• Brainbench or Sun certified on JAVA platform preferred
• Exposure to other middleware and/or external security manager products (Oracle Identity Manager, Tivoli Directory Server)


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Must be detail-oriented, extremely organized, and will have exceptional writing and communication skills.
• Demonstrated a record of managing and maintaining large scale deployments of portal and collaborative solutions.
• Ability to work closely with system and network administrators to manage portal and collaborative application deployments.
• Willingness to mentor junior resources and other team members.
• Ability to operate effectively, and with a sense of possibility, in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Must be passionate about Teach For America's mission.

Academic Qualifications:
• At least a four-year degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related field

Location:	US-NY-New York
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Timothy Hogue
Contact Phone:	212-279-2080
Contact Email:	timothy.hogue@teachforamerica.org

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