J2EE Architect - (US-GA-Atlanta - 39901)

Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
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Middleware Solutions Architect needed in the following cities:
Boston, DC, Raleigh, Ohio, Dallas, Atlanta, NYC, Phoenix and LA
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Middleware Solutions Architects have broad experience in the design, development, deployment, and support of enterprise Java applications.
JBoss SAs have a deep understanding of J2EE/JEE and supporting technologies with experience applying those technologies to solve real-world problems.
The Solutions Architect works with the sales team to provide deep technical insight for the JBoss product suite. You will be in front of
customers on a daily basis (both on the phone/web meeting and in person) and will sometimes travel to client sites.
JBoss Solutions Architects can listen to customers' technical challenges and can suggest various solution paths, understanding that "one size does not fit all."

In the evangelist part of the role, you will speak to Java User Groups and others about JBoss and J2EE/JEE technologies. The Product Management, Consulting/Training, Support, and Core R&D teams will collaborate with you as needed based upon your interactions with customers. This job requires constant learning about new technologies and how they can be applied to enterprises.
We are looking for consultants and developers who either have some presales experience or have a natural talent for talking and presenting to different groups of people.

Primary Responsibilities will include:
• Providing technical credibility to JBoss sales team
• Answer technical questions given to sales team by prospective customers (possibly in the form of RFPs or RFIs)
• Develop and conduct live demonstrations of JBoss products
• Conduct live demonstrations of JBoss software products
• Educate prospects on the capabilities of JBoss software products
• Identifying the appropriate technologies to solve client problems
• Collect and provide boilerplate responses to competitive FUD
• Form relationships with clients technical staff to identify new opportunities
• Contribute to JBoss products via documentation (wiki, quick-start guides, whitepapers) or development (example usage code, bug fixes, enhancements, suggestions)
• Provide feedback to Product Management on product direction and feature usefulness (customer applicability)

Required Skills:
• Standard Java Programming (J2SE/JSE APIs like JDBC, JNDI, JAXP, JAAS, etc.)
• Enterprise Java Programming (J2EE/JEE APIs like EJB, Servlet/JSP/JSF, JMS, JAXRPC/WS, JPA, JTA, JCA, etc.)
• Development/Deployment on J2EE/JEE appservers (JBoss AS, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, etc.)
• Real World Enterprise Architecture (Deploying an application to production with significant usage/criticality to the business)
• Communication (Listening, speaking, "knowing your audience", transmission of concepts with/without examples, etc.)
• Knowledge of standard design patterns and enterprise integration patterns
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise architectures and multi-tiered applications
• Ability to work as part of a geographically dispersed team
• Ability to constantly learn about new technologies and apply those concepts to customers

Preferred Skills:
• Database design
• Consulting
• Pre-Sales/Sales Engineering
• Technical writing
• Training (especially teaching J2EE/JEE subjects)
• Multilingualism (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese)

Job Requirements: (standard - senior)
• 4-7+ years Standard Java Development
• 3-5+ years Enterprise Java Development (J2EE/JEE)
• 3-5+ years System Architecture