Profile

As a Senior Engineer you'll have more than 5 years of experience, you're over 30 years old and you can manage the technical side of a software project. You master all the skills mentioned below. Senior Engineers can act as Applications Architect as well as Team lead. You are capable of planning and tracking a software development project. Seniors are familiar with development processes such as RUP, Scrum and Prince2. Senior Engineers are hands-on and coach the members of the team. You are very aware of the processes within a corporate environment (DTAP) and report to the overall project manager.

Skills

JAVA APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

• Java 1.4 to 6.x
• Web development with JSP or JSF and Spring MVC, Struts or SEAM
• Spring framework Core, Persistency and Remoting or comparable technologies
• Object Relational Mapping such as Hibernate 3, Spring JDBCTemplate and IBatis
• Databases: JDBC with MySQL, Progress, Oracle 8+
• Eclipse 3.x or comparable IDEs
• SubVersion and CVS
• Maven 2.x (or Ant)
• Documentation JavaDoc, Technical design, UML
• Unit testing

JAVA APPLICATION DESIGN

• OO analysis and design UML Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams (Using Enterprise Architect or Rational Tools)
• Interviewing skills, brainstorming and functional design
• Technical design
• Design Patterns (Fowler PoEA and GoF): MVC pattern, Template Pattern, Domain Model, Factories, Singleton, Strategy Pattern
• Enterprise Java and SOA: JMS, EJB 3 and Web Services
• Application Servers such as Apache Tomcat 4/5, JBOSS, IBM Websphere 4/5/6, or BEA Weblogic 8/9
• Application Security through J2EE security (ServletAPI), or ACEGI and LDAP

RELEASE AND PLANNING

• Development methodologies such as RUP, Scrum, and XP
• Project management experience (Prince2, PMI)
• Continuous Integration with CruiseControl or comparable
• Testing driven development with JUnit, EasyMock, rMock, DBUnit, Fitnesse
• Release Management: releasing to DTAP (dev, test, acceptance, production) environments
• Version management (branching, merging and patching, backward compatibility)