Application Architect Technical Lead with Java Web Services and Oracle development background. at Washington

Description

Looking for an experienced Technical Lead with Java Web Services and Oracle development background. Join a growing team supporting DHS. Located in Washington, DC. Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro accessible location!!

-- MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN --

The CSC Team provides IT support to the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) for the majority of their fielded software applications and systems. USCIS is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is the sole US government agency dealing with all immigration and citizenship applications for the person immigrating into the United States; about 8 million applications per year. We support over 400 offices in a world-wide environment with high quality software solutions.

Job Specific Functions:
As a Technical Lead, you participate in the full lifecycle of an engagement to deliver a complex, comprehensive business solution. You guide less experienced product consultants in setups, integration best practices, and you review deliverables for quality assurance purposes. In this role, you help to define and justify the business case, develop implementation plans, track progress against plans, and provide expert functional and product recommendations. You are recognized by your practice for your functional knowledge, methodology, and product knowledge related to your specialty area(s).
In this role, you capitalize on opportunities to demonstrate your methodology expertise and educate others in this arena. In addition, you apply your knowledge of industry, product and functional best practices, related technology trends, and vendor future direction as you guide the client toward the appropriate business solution. You are also looking beyond the boundaries of the application product to see business benefit in bolt-on solutions, custom solutions, and systems integration potential.

Essential Job Functions

• Conducts technical research, testing, evaluation and documentation of moderately complex hosting/configuration tools and methodologies to ensure that tools are current and functional.
  
• Creates application architectures and populates an application host/configuration matrices with appropriate strategies, timelines, and cost information to increase cost efficiency and effectiveness.
  
• Coordinates with application developers, managers and customer application experts to ensure that required features and modifications are included in the appropriates releases to support cross-product features and to communicate architectural designs and standards.
  
• Designs application modules that work together to produce desired product. Ensures that completed modules provide functionality described by application experts and to ensure that performance guidelines are met.
  
• Plans technical support infrastructure through the creation of service level agreements; leads the transition from application development to support to ensure that appropriate support is available to clients in a timely and efficient manner.
  
• Provides high-level analysis and design reviews to other department members to avoid duplication of effort in solving the same application problems with different products.
  
• Works with third party vendors to develop and/or integrate their applications into company products; ensures that applications are in accordance with company product standards and guidelines.
  
• Works with product development teams and senior designers to develop architectural requirements to ensure client satisfaction with product.
  

Qualification

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  
• Bachelors degree in business, software engineering, computer science or related field preferred
  
• Nine or more years of application architecture and/or product development experience
  
• Experience working with software systems, applications and network markets
  
• Experience working with technical products, vendors, and families of technologies and company software and hardware products
  
• Experience working with application design principles and product configurations
  
• Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware and software
  
• Experience working with mainframes, scheduling software, and other related technologies
  
• Experience working with software development life cycle
  

Other Qualifications

• Personal computer and business solutions software skills
  
• Good communication skills to communicate with customers, vendors, business unit personnel, support personnel, application development personnel and management
  
• Good analytical and problem solving skills for design, coordination and testing of applications
  
• Good skills in application administration, design and architecture
  
• Ability to work in a team environment
  
• Ability to create and maintain formal and informal networks
  
• Ability to work with relational databases
• Minimum of Eight (8) years of experience Java, JSP and Web Services
• Minimum of two (2) years of leading an Agile development team
• Experience with Microsoft SQL server and Reporting Services
• Experience with IIS and Resin application server configuration and setup
• Experience with Oracle 10g/11g, Oracle PL SQL desired
• Familiarity with Seibel a plus
• Familiarity with USCIS process a plus
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must be able to obtain/maintain a USCIS 6C clearance ( a level of Public Trust clearance)
• All work must be conducted at work location - No remote work
  
  

Country: USA, State: Dist of Columbia, City: Washington, Company: CSC.