We currently have a 6 month contract to hire opening for a … Sr. Level XQuery/Mark Logic Engineer
This individual will responsible for all software development related to XQuery / Mark Logic functionality. In this role, this Engineering Professional will work closely with internal and external teams using Java/J2EE, XQuery, and will also be developing new XQuery applications for ongoing data sets. Additionally, this individual will be an “expert” in these technologies and will act as a mentor and internal resource for expertise in these technologies within the company.
Qualified applicants will have a very strong working knowledge of and hands-on experience with:
· W3C XML initiatives
· specifically XML Query
· XSL & Mark Logic's XML server
· Strong analysis skills & attention to detail
This person must be a good communicator and work very well independently as well as a member of a high performing team.
Knowledge of development using ClearCase, Java & Perl are preferred.
Candidates must have experience with XQuery, XPath & XSL programming in a mission-critical, high-performance, secure Linux environment.
Responsibilities:
· Partners with product development team (web development, content development and tech leads on shared services) to help drive product specification and provide guidance.
· Constructs and implement the technical design for the organization's presence on the Internet. Owns the technical design of Web applications and write technical specifications, including information architecture, data design, and technical details.
· Works with product team to define software products by consulting during specification stage, performing research, developing prototypes or proofs-of-concept, and acting as an expert technical contributor. Should be able to code if necessary with the development teams.
· Contributes to general development efforts by producing documentation and training materials and conducting training sessions.
· Develops and maintain expertise in a wide range of industry technologies including emerging Internet technologies. Generate proposals for the management team and conduct presentation/training sessions for the development teams. Participate in standards, organizations and industry groups.
· Works with the development teams to ensure implementation of the product vision. Provide communication and integration point to other parts of Engineering, IT, and System organization including other architects to identify and address any issues or impact those projects might have on those areas.
· Focuses on web-specific technologies and scenarios and apply best practices, patterns, and oftentimes reference architectures around delivering web-native experiences with software. Should drive for uniformity across products to keep the technology / products simple, flexible, scalable and maintainable.
· Sometimes responsible for creating original Web site content.
· Responsible for ascertaining system volume and analyzing traffic patterns.
· Is able to easily switch from being strategic to tactical.
· Is on top of the new and emerging technologies.
Required Skills:
· Over 8-12 years of experience in product development, primarily around thin client UI development with 4-5 years in an architecture role round Web 2.0, Java, J2EE, RDBMS and Web Content Management Solutions and community features.
· Good understanding of web browser design and W3C standards compliance/adoption, developing smart clients for targeted environments (Windows, Linux .NET/ Java SE/ME). Proficient in XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, DOM scripting, XQuery, XSL style sheets, templating engines
· Good understanding of content syndication and aggregation scenarios and technologies such as RSS and ATOM, and data interconnectivity with web services APIs either via SOAP, REST for rich and loosely coupled functionality.
· Good understanding of Search Engine optimizations, taxonomy development and management, semantic tagging and content engineering.
· Exceptional knowledge of various Web development languages is required.
· Well versed around session and state management, instrumentation, caching design, security and identity, smart client and mobile to web topologies, user experience patterns and practices, performance and scalability considerations, service-oriented architecture, and very importantly, peer-to-peer architecture and design.
· Well versed with composite application designs and the associated patterns such as dependency Injection (inversion of control) and associated frameworks.
· Knowledgeable on open source technologies and emerging Internet technologies.
· Knowledge of technologies such as Adobe Flash, Flex, native XML databases, web content management system, publishing background is an added bonus.
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