Application Architect Job Posting

Job Title:	Application Architect
Job ID:	505067762
Company:	Korn/Ferry Futurestep
Position Type:	Permanent
Pay Rate:	Negotiable
Date Posted:	Oct-16-09

Teaser Our client, is the world's leading publisher of science and health information and serves more than 30 million scientists, students, and health and information professionals worldwide has an immediate opening for an Application Architect responsible to partner with product development teams to drive product implementations.

The Application Architect will partner with product development team to help drive product specification, provide guidance, and ensure the implementation of the product vision. He/she will also:

? Construct, implement, and own the technical design for the organization's presence on the Internet
? Write technical specifications including information architecture, data design, and technical details
? Work with product team to define software products during specification stage, performing research, developing prototypes or proofs-of-concept, and acting as an expert technical contributor. Should be able to code if necessary with the development teams.
? Generate proposals for the management team and conducts presentation/training sessions for the development teams.
? Focus on web-specific technologies and scenarios and apply best practices, patterns, and reference architectures around delivering web-native experiences with software.
? Strive for uniformity across products to keep the technology/products simple, flexible, scalable and maintainable.
? Occasionally create original Web site content.
? Ascertain system volume and analyzing traffic patterns.

QUALIFICATIONS:

? Typically possesses 8 to12 years of experience in product development, primarily around thin client UI development
? A minimum of 4 to 5 years in an architecture role around Web 2.0, Java, J2EE, RDBMS, Web Content Management Solutions and community features is highly desirable
? Has a full understanding of web browser design and W3C standards compliance/adoption, developing smart clients for targeted environments (Windows, Linux, .NET/ Java SE/ME).
? Proficient in XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, DOM scripting, Xquery, xsl style sheets, and templating engines
? Possesses a good understanding of content syndication, aggregation scenarios and technologies such as RSS and ATOM
? Experienced with Data interconnectivity in web services APIs via SOAP or REST for rich and loosely coupled functionality.
? Has a good understanding of SEO, taxonomy development and management, semantic tagging, and content engineering.
? Well versed around session and state management, instrumentation, caching design, security and identity, smart client and mobile to web topologies, user experience patterns and practices, performance and scalability considerations, SOA, and peer-to-peer architecture/design.
? Well versed with composite application designs and the associated patterns such as dependency Injection (inversion of control) and associated frameworks.
? Knowledgeable on open source technologies and emerging Internet technologies.
? Knowledge of technologies such as Adobe Flash, Flex, native XML databases, web content management system, publishing background is preferred

EDUCATION:
? Bachelor or Master degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent work experience

Location:	US-PA-Philadelphia
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Charles Mitchell
Contact Phone:
Contact Email:	charles.mitchell@futurestep.com