Is responsible for

·         Being a part of the Product Engineering team and leading the development work effort for the product development of new generation products (J2EE platform) in the education vertical – including a Campus ERP Solution and web portal for the education fraternity, reporting into the Engineering Manager
·         Ensuring the product development meets all required specifications and requirements (both functional and non-functional)
·         Evaluating Development Frameworks / Tools and making recommendations keeping the overall product roadmap and objectives in mind
·         Defining J2EE best practices and design / coding standards for the development team and ensuring these are being adhered to
·         Participating in product development activities – including Tools setup, High / Low Level design, Coding, Unit Testing, Code reviews and walkthroughs, Defect fixing and Packaging,
·         Handling the Interface between the Engineering and Product Management teams – for requirements elaboration / analysis, translating requirements into design and code, ensuring engineering team understands the requirements & design, providing estimations, taking part in discussions regarding the product technology roadmap etc.
·         Handling the Interface between the Engineering and QA teams – for providing test support, handling test defects and taking part in System / Regression Testing
·         Allocating and Tracking of development tasks and reporting periodic status to the Engineering Manager
·         Ensuring essential project management processes are being followed
·         Ensuring PLM project processes are being followed by the team and up to-date project documentation is maintained on an ongoing basis
·         Identifying the training needs of the team, conducting technical interviews and in ensuring the new resources are on-boarded as per plan

Should demonstrate:

·         Excellent technical skills as outlined below
·         Excellent communication skills – written & verbal
·         Ability to delve into emerging technologies and evaluate new tools and frameworks for inclusion in the product development approach
·         Ability to take ownership of tasks and excellent problem solving capabilities
·         Ability to work on a full lifecycle new product development
·         Good knowledge of design principles
·         Ability to simultaneously work with multiple stakeholders across the organization
·         Good understanding of object-oriented approaches to software development and Iterative development methodologies

Technical skills:

·         Strong J2EE knowledge – JSP’s, Servlets, JMS, JDBC, JNDI
·         XML / HTML - AJAX, XML, XSL, SAX, HTML, JavaScript
·         Exposure to relational databases – MySQL, Oracle
·         Persistence Layer – Hibernate / IBatis / TopLink
·         Frameworks – Spring / JSF / Struts
·         Middleware – Apache Tomcat / JBoss / Websphere Application Server
·         Development IDE – NetBeans / Eclipse
·         Exposure to Web Services (SOAP, RPC, Apache-Axis)
·         Strong OOAD Concepts, UML, Knowledge of Design Patterns and Localization / Internationalization (Java I89 packages)
·         Build Tools – ANT / Maven