Java Application Development manager

STSI is seeking a highly motivated and result-oriented Java Application Development manager to join our team.

• The Software Development Manager, as a member of the software product team, is expected to contribute significantly to team goals in the area of software design, development and product support
• The Software Development manager will provide direction and mentorship for a team of software engineers and quality assurance engineers as well as monitoring and evaluating their performance
• The Software Development Manager is expected to demonstrate expertise in the areas of software architecture, software security, software methodologies, quality assurance and control
• Managing the full lifecycle application development, with emphasis on agile development (scrum, sprints, incremental design) methodologies
• Participate in Designing, coding and debugging applications in Java software language
• Ensures the use of sound software engineering techniques to develop solutions that meet customer requirements
• Follows appropriate design, development, and testing methodologies to ensure a quality software product
• Sets priorities and allocates proper amounts of time to assigned activities
• Maintains an awareness of interrelationships among activities
• Maintains an organized approach and meets or exceeds agreed upon time and quality standards for end work product
• Develops alternative courses of action and makes decisions based on logical assumptions and which reflect factual information
• Develops documentation relative to technical aspects to facilitate current support, development, upgrades, or migrations

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline
• Total of 8 to 12 years demonstrated experience developing Java/J2EE software using at least five of:
• J2EE, JSP/Servlets (or similar), Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Free Marker, JDBC, MyBatis, Web Services/WS standards
• 4 years in a leadership role
• Experience managing both Kanban and Scrum teams
• Experience implementing and utilizing Agile methodologies
• Strong foundation in service-oriented methodologies, principles, practices, and modeling
• Knowledge and understanding of multi-tier architectures
• Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively in a team environment
• Experience in UNIX/Linux environments
• N-tier J2EE environments using any of Application Server
• Hands on experience with Model-View-Control Architecture (MVC) based applications(e.g: Struts and Spring, Spring boot framework)
• Experience building business high-volume transactional systems is a strong plus
• Hands on experience in writing and consuming Web Services (REST, WSDL)