Friday 28 October 2011

Sure shot for Senior Java Application Engineer (Developer)

Senior Java Application Engineer (Developer) – Custom Web Services (5 open) 

Portland, OR

12 months


Description

 

Nike Consumer Digital Technology brings together technology and process expertise to deliver one-stop solutions that enable Nike, Inc.'s digital products and services. Nike Consumer Digital Technology is responsible for creating, developing and deploying seamless, tailored and inherently social experiences to its Digital consumers. Working in Nike's Consumer Digital Technology organization will be rewarding, it will be challenging, and it will most definitely not be just another job.

 

As a Lead Java/J2EE Application Engineer for Custom Web Services, you'll bring a broad experience of successfully ideating and delivering value that enables Nike to increase productivity, realize efficiencies and build profitable customer experiences. Interest and experience in the latest methodologies goes a long way here and we're looking for people who are passionate about the world of value-driven solution delivery. You'll get to work alongside truly talented teams and help them enhance their performance by promoting collaboration and innovation.

 

To be considered, you'll bring the following skills:

Developer Required Skills/Experience:

·         5-7 years of progressive Development Experience in the area of building restful web services for powering web sites and/or mobile applications

·         2 or more years additional years of experience leading technical teams

·         Strong OOP knowledge and experience

·         Agile development experience is a must, preferably with Scrum

·         Ability to work with multiple teams

·         Experience working across teams to leverage best practices

·         JBoss 4.x, 5.x, 7

·         Hibernate

·         Integration using Spring/JMS

·         Spring MVC and/or JAX-RS

·         Spring JDBC Template

·         Maven

 

Developer Preferred Skills:

·         Experience with XML and JSON as well as the integration of 3rd Party APIs

·         Experience with implementation of social graph concepts

·         Experience working with Data grids and/or NoSQL technologies

·         Team City or any other Continuous Integration experience is good, for example Hudson

·         Exposure to EC2 cloud and spinning up new AMIs

·         Experience programming with Social network APIs

·         Experience leveraging Apigee

·         Experience using Oracle Coherence

·         Strong PL/SQL

·         Jersey (jersey.java.net)

 

Specific assignments available (but not limited to):

 

Digital Sport

Business Objective:

Within Nike, Digital Sport is a key strategic initiative whose stakeholder team is Nike's senior executive leadership team.  We are developing a game-changing approach on how we engage with our consumer and push the envelope in regards to the use of technology to improve the performance of all athletes.* 

(* If you have a body you are an athlete)

 

With the importance of this initiative there is no room for mediocrity and we must build an infrastructure and platform that will respond to the daily real-time requests from an expected 25 million Global user-base and at the same time be able to scale as we continue to offer new solutions.

 

At a very high level, our solutions allow consumers to track their various activities through various sports using multiple devices and across multiple platforms (web, mobile, tbd…).  Our experience provides consumers with tools to keep them motivated and continue to improve their overall health, fitness and performance.  

 

Technical Objectives:

Develop a highly available and scalable platform that services real time needs of consumer experiences across multiple channels, both Nike owned and through external partnerships.

 

The main components of our platform are:

Open API Layers:  A Cloud based REST based APIS exposed to mobile & partner applications.

            Java Web Services

Real Time In-Memory Data Grid

Analytics

 

Social

Business Objective:

Sport is inherently social.  Nike's business goal is to weave social interactions into all web & mobile application experiences that allow athletes to share information with their friends both within Nike and outside of Nike using established social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

 

Technical Objectives:

Develop a highly available and scalable platform that services real time needs of consumer experiences across multiple channels, both Nike owned and through integration with external social networks.

 

Platform based on Social Site open source framework and integrated with external platforms using Gigya.


 Thanks & Regards,

Rani Adari

Tech Tammina

203 Elden Street

Herndon, VA-20170

Call: 703-880-4992

Fax: 703-991-5532

rani@tammina.com

www.tammina.com


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