Job Description:  The ideal candidate will enjoy a fast-paced culture that promotes the development of new ideas in an innovative environment.  This candidate must be customer focused, have excellent time management, communication, leadership, and follow-up skills.  This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting edge technology on internet based mapping applications used throughout the country. What we are looking for is a senior application person who is more than a developer.   Essentially you could say an application architect, who goes beyond normal development, meaning somebody who has experience and skills for handling end-to-end projects in the application space, but also can strategize and handle client relations and also be able to articulate technical intricacies in normal terms.

Under the direction of the Team Lead, the Senior Application Developer:

• Interfaces with customer to determine and document application requirements
• Coordinates with other functional members of the project team, ie. infrastructure, database administrators, security, and configuration management.
• Performs specialized programming duties including conceptual system design, specifications development, including writing interfaces to Database Management Systems (DBMS)
• Designs detailed input and output record layouts, documenting the functions of programs
• Translates detailed design into computer software
• Tests, debugs, and refines the computer software to produce the required product
• Ensures that software design promotes modularity and portability and is reliable, serviceable, and maintainable, has demonstrable accuracy, privacy and security, and is sufficient within the parameters of the system
• Prepares required system and data requirements documentation, including both program-level and user-level
• Documentation; system test, implementation, and configuration management plans and system demonstrations
• Design and develop Intranet-based interactive applications

Preferred Skills:  Number of Years Experience Required:  7-10

Minimum Education Required:  Bachelors

Technical Skills Required:

• U.S. Citizen or person with valid U.S. Work Visa who has lived in the U.S. for 5 or more years
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and interface with the customer and interpret requirements
• Ability to communicate requirements.
• 7-10 years experience in the Information Technology industry
• 5 years experience with Oracle Database operating in a production environment
   

Helpful:

• 7 years experience as an application developer, with full development life cycle experience (requirements phase through deployment)
• Minimum of  7 years experience in Java-based Object Oriented Development (OOD) is required
• Hands on Experience with most of the following technologies and frameworks are a must: JDBC & connection pooling,
• Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Tapestry, Ant, XML/XSL Parsers, other Apache/Jakarta Open Source tools and frameworks
• Knowledge of UNIX environment is a must, Solaris preferred
• Knowledge and experiences developing Web Services
• Strong math skills a plus
• Exposure to GIS / ESRI environment is a plus
• College degree is required, with Computer Science, Engineering, or Math is preferred
   

Other ComputerSkills Required (language, certifications, etc):

 SW Development skills required:

• Legacy system replacement and reengineering
• Data integration and aggregation (i.e. FTP, synchronization, Web Services)
   

Languages required:

• Java, Servlets, J2EE. Java Server Pages
• Oracle PL/SQL including creating Views, Functions, and Procedures
• XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS 
• Knowledgeable in SW, HW, and technologies that support web-based application development, ie Java, J2EE, Oracle Spatial, UNIX, XML, XSD and schema generation tools, PDF, AJAX , and GIS tools.

Application Servers & Platforms required:

• Sun Java System Application Server
• Apache Tomcat
• Windows 2000 and XP
• Sun Solaris
• Working knowledge of Geographical Information System (GIS) software a plus: ArcIMS, ArcSDE, ArcView, ArcInfo, map routing software
• Experience with web-enabling technologies to enhance input to and output from geographical displays is a plus

For consideration, email your resume to and type the following in the subject line: Application Developer (Senior)

CGH Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)