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The Job Details are as follows:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Access team!

Uses industry standard programming techniques to translate requirements and designs into code.
Analyze and solve problems in existing systems.
Design, code and test multiple modules of a system in a timely manner.
Participates in unit, system and acceptance testing by designing tests, building test data, test execution and evaluation. Along with recommending/making improvements/fixes to the tested system.
Assists in developing and interpreting requirements.
Follows all OCLC ISO-9000 procedures and the SDLC, as they pertain to their work unit, and continually seeks improvements to development procedures.
Leads the implementation of all relevant ISO and NISO standards within OCLC projects.
Participates in major architectural reviews and plans.
Participates in the analysis and implementation of 3rd party solutions for OCLC applications with the ability to understand the impact and analyze the risk.
Plans and participates in load, capacity, and performance analysis and/or testing.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline required
5 years of software development, five years of JAVA programming required
Experience with the following technologies is a must -- JAVA, Object Oriented Design (and UML notation and patterns), SOA based systems, Hessian, Servlets, Spring-loC, Spring Boot, Maven, SOLR indexing and querying, SOAP and REST based Webservices
Experience with BigData technologies using Hadoop echo system (HBase, MR, Spark, Sqoop, Kafka Streaming etc)
Experience with Cloud based technologies including, but not limited to, AWS and Snowflake
Experience with Linux (or any UNIX for that matter) and some with Windows would be required
Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Experience in Microservice Architecture is desired.
Experience with MySQL, Postgresql a plus.
Containerization and Pod deployment is desired
Excellent skills with unit testing, integration testing and performance/stress testing is a must
Excellent communication skills are a must
Ability to implement industry standard programming techniques by
- Mastering advanced fundamental software development concepts, practices, and procedures, and having the ability to analyze and solve problems in existing systems.
Must have the ability to concentrate on a strictly technical focus, project management or a combination of the two depending on interests and project load of the work unit.
Technical Focus -
- Expert in at least one discipline (database, performance, etc.) on a single product or research project.
- Has successfully implemented multiple major areas of functionality.