BCBSM IT Resource Request # 2667400 Role: Technology Specialist, Sr/2667400 (second submittal) Location: Lyon Meadows Facility Desired Start Date: 12/1/2008 Estimated End Date: 4/3/2009 Number of Positions: 1 Number of Resumes Being Accepted: 3 Resume window closes 11/18/2008 @ 3:00 PM. Resumes received after this date/time will not be accepted. Contract Resource: Skills and Experience Requirements: • Experience following and using the RUP or Agile methodology • Candidate needs experience writing and/or maintaining: • Software Architecture Documents (SAD) – defines the architecture of the solution • Use Case Documents – defines the functional requirements • Use Case Models – visually depicts the functional scope of the project
• Supplementary Specifications – defines non-functional requirements • Candidate needs experience executing to the RUP or Agile software engineering process • Understanding of difference between waterfall and non-waterfall cadences • Understanding of iterations • Familiarity of what work is performed during Elaboration, Construction, and Transition (RUP) • Architecting & designing concepts of Service Oriented Architecture • Candidate needs experience with the following: • Architecting the actual service itself not just a consumer of the service • Delivering the project that creates/maintains the service, on time and on budget • Strong Problem Solving Skills • Candidate needs experience with the following: • Thinking on their feet • Coming up with creative solutions to difficult problems • Thinking out of the box • Able to perform analysis on business processing and translate to a SOA architecture • Proven ability to interface with customer for requirements clarification • Candidate needs the following: • Strong inter- and intra-personal skills • Experience negotiating the scope and delivery of requirements across multiple consumers at the same time • Strong experience designing and delivering projects on time and on budget (SOA projects preferred) • Candidate needs the following: • Experiencing delivering SOA service projects (not just consumer project) on time and on budget • Experience with analysis of business processes and SOA Architecture • Experience managing external vendors performing design, build, and test tasks • Candidate needs the following: • Experience working with external vendors on firm, fixed price projects • Experience negotiating with vendor on requirements and deliverables • Experience working with vendor’s developers and technical leaders • Unit, System, Integration, and Performance Testing experience • Candidate needs the following: • Strong experience ensuring complete coverage for unit tests • Strong experience ensuring rigorous system and integration testing • Strong experience ensuring SLAs can be met and performance requirements are tested for performance testing • Experience managing performance requirements across multiple consumers given a single service • Project Management skills, experience using Project management tools (e.g. MS Project) • BCBSM is not looking for a Project Manager for this position • Candidate needs the following: • Experience developing and maintaining simple MS Project plans • Experience estimating work effort • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Candidate’s communication must be: • Easy to understand • Does not speak too quickly or too slowly • Must understand spoken English • Clearly communicates with team members and customers • Strong listening skills • Can communicate complicated things in a simple and straightforward manner • Strong and clear written skills • J2EE, XML, MQ, and JMS messaging • Candidate needs to understand the following: • J2EE • EJBs (Session, MDB not Entity) – BCBSM web services are typically implemented as EJBs • Strong Java development skills • XML • XSD, WSDL, XML, DTD, DOM/SAX • MQ • Understanding of IBM MQ or other queue-based messaging system • Understanding of how to create, read, and translate fixed-length string messages • How to use messaging in a synchronous manner • JMS • Understanding of the lifecycle of messages in queues • Understanding of queues vs. topics • Understanding and experience using PVCS or other version control tool • Candidate needs the following: • Experience with check-in and check-out • Experience creating projects in version control tool • Experience with continuous integration environments Thanks & Regards Syed Mustafa Vaptech Inc. Every sunrise delivers opportunities, while every sunset asks what we did with the opportunities. Number FOUR (4) in New Jersey by Deloitte & Touché Fast 50 Number 29 in USA by Deloitte & Touché Fast 500 1001 Durham Ave, Suite 200, South Plainfield, NJ 07080 |Tel: 732-767-0700 Ext 3023 ,908-731-5468 (C) | Fax: 908.731.5434 |Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | URL: www.vaptech.com If you want to be removed, please send mail with REMOVE in the subject & we will promptly remove upon receipt E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: www.vaptech.com Note: If you are not interested in receiving our e-mails, please reply with "REMOVE" in subject. We apologize for any inconvenience. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "zilliontechnologies" group. To post to this group, send email to zilliontechnologies@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/zilliontechnologies?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---