Java Developer with Groovy and Grails

Company Description

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Job Description

Top Three Skills:

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1. Groovy (3-4 years) and Grails

2. UNIX and PERL scripting experience

3. Core Java development and Java Script experience 

Job Description:

Oversees development of network management applications to monitor and maintain the T-Mobile network. These systems will be utilized to provide proactive management and reporting for the T-Mobile network. Create formal networks with other departments, vendors, and partners to provide network management solutions as required. Determines the appropriate programming languages and technologies, writes complex code, completes programming, and performs complex testing and debugging of applications. Code may be used in commercial or end-user applications, such as network fault, configuration, performance, and service quality management solutions. Primary responsibilities also include: translating business requirements into high and low level designs, analyzing business requirements and suggesting best implementation strategies, developing and testing performance oriented software code to realize design using best practice methods, and unit testing work. Responsible for managing collaboration with system engineers to define system requirements and necessary modifications. 

Enterprise Core Competencies

Requires competency in customer focus, change & innovation, strategic thinking, relationship building & influencing, talent management, results focus and inspirational leadership.

Essential Functions

• Utilizes programming skills to develop (code) and unit-test new system functionality per technical specifications, with deliverables to include code builds and documented unit test results.

• Acts as a subject matter expert for specific applications. Leads vendor calls and manages software defects for those applications. Participates in enhancement requests.

• Leads and manages reviews (walkthroughs) of technical specifications and program code with other members of the technical team, communicating design, requirements, feature set, functionality and limitations of systems/applications to team.

• Translates complex business and functional requirements into documented technical and architectural specifications.

• Responsible for managing and building production deployment packages and implementation plans for scheduled systems enhancements. Applies patches, updates and upgrades for network management applications as required. 

• Agile Methodology programming experience is a plus

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Required

• Advanced knowledge in the support and development of network management software

• Advanced UNIX and Windows OS skills

• 4-5 Years Java or automation or experience in top NMS Tools in industry (Using Resolve tool for automation).

• Strong understanding of HTML and XML design and programming

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Products

• 5-8+ years Software Development experience

• 5-8+ years Professional experience using 3 or more development languages or tools

• 5+ years Network Management development experience in a large scale Operations environment

• 5+ years Designing and developing applications on one RDBMS (Oracle or SQL 2000)

• 5-8+ years scripting experience required - Unix Shell, Perl, Expect, JavaScript, etc.

• 5-7 years Groovy Development experience and 2-4 years of Grail experience

- Must be able to perform code reviews and be successful at leading projects

- Experience working in customized environments 

Education

Minimum Required 

• Bachelor’s Degree. Technical Discipline 

• In lieu of a degree experience within the telecom industry may be considered 

Additional Information

GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS

CONTRACT 

H1B, GC and USC

DURATION: 12+ MONTHS