Soa Developer

Qualifications

• Previous experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Experience developing headless WebSphere Commerce/ HCL Commerce solutions.
• An interest in the ongoing developments of WebSphere Commerce/ HCL Commerce (e.g., xC programming model, JPA)

Job description

• Design and develop solutions within a multi-functional Agile team to support key business needs for WebSphere Commerce/ HCL Commerce application.
• Design, implement, and test back-end solutions for eCommerce websites.
• Design, implement, and test web service applications for Order, Payment, Catalog, and Member modules.
• Apply software engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, perform root cause analysis, and take appropriate action to remediate issues.
• Collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Must be able to document and demonstrate technical solutions by developing documentation, diagrams, code comments, etc.
• Development and support for enterprise-grade e-commerce websites (HCL Commerce/IBM WebSphere Commerce) using e.g., Java, JavaScript, SQL, and REST
• Mentoring and guidance of junior developers
• Migration of legacy applications to modern container-based microservice architectures

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Proven experience in delivering large-scale architecture change projects in ecommerce, retail, or manufacturing.
• Proven technical leadership skills with an internal team within a client facing environment.
• An understanding of web technologies and an appreciation for capacity and performance design considerations
• Essential to have a good understanding of IBM WebSphere Commerce (WC v7 or WC v8)/ HCL Commerce v9 functional and technical architecture including design and development best practice and the associate technologies:
• WebSphere Commerce (WC) functional architecture (e.g., store, catalog, merchandising, marketing, orders)
• WC frameworks (e.g., Command framework, MVC,)
• WC Search
• Common WC data models (User, Orders, Catalogs, Promotions etc.)
• WC messaging infrastructure (inbound and outbound, REST, MQ, BOD)
• WC persistence layer (SDO and EJB/access/data beans)
• WC development environment, SCM and GIT repos
• SOLR search
• IBM DB2 Database
• Demonstrate and develop to WC best practices, especially with regards to security and customizations
• Have a working knowledge of Dynacache
• An understanding of WC deployment models (e.g., 3-tier, de-coupled storefront/search)
• Java and J2EE development (e.g., JSP, EJB, JPA, Struts, Spring, core JAVA)
• Develop performant and secure code (incl. SQL) for high-traffic production use, following pre-defined principles and guidelines.
• Working knowledge of application server technologies (e.g., WebSphere Application Server) including clustered environments
• Working experience of the Atlassian Tooling (JIRA, Confluence)
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written (documentation) and oral communication skills, in a role which will be regularly customer facing.
• Effective time management and an ability to deliver to deadlines working in a Scrum methodology.
• Ability to work collaboratively with both local and offshore teams and developers ADDITIONAL/ DESIRABLE SKILLS
• Previous experience of working in an Agile environment
• Experience developing headless WebSphere Commerce/ HCL Commerce solutions.
• An interest in the ongoing developments of WebSphere Commerce/ HCL Commerce (e.g., xC programming model, JPA)
• Have good front-end development skills in HTML, CSS, and JS frameworks (e.g., jQuery) and are familiar with Ajax.
• Web-tier configuration experience (e.g., Apache, IIS)
• Having worked on solutions utilizing edge-caches and CDNs