Senior Java Developer - SRE

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

Senior Java Developer – SRE for My Business Portal App Support and development within the My Business team. You will be responsible for leading a team focused on delivering best-in-class customer experience for SMB, Enterprise, Federal/Government business customers. You will interact daily with business partners in marketing/ISO teams. You will guide IT team members for time boxed delivery of prioritized business functionality incorporating high quality.

Join our Information Technology team where you will work find ways to meet our customers’ needs and make it easy for them to do business with us. You will regularly lead multiple small to medium-size projects or one large project and perform project management activities such as planning, sizing, configuring, and scheduling. You will develop resolutions to complex problems creatively and make decisions that impact projects and staff members.

• Production rollout, validation and support: You will support production rollout of the enhancements with validation and post-production issue resolution for enterprise release and maintenance releases. You will track project metrics and drive self-serve utilization. You will assess project risk, proactively take remedial action, and ensure robust system performance and stability in production.
• You will collaborate with business partners, business analysts, and interfacing team to define user interface, screen navigation, and integration with interfacing systems for the system enhancements.
• You will participate in end-to-end application design review within the My Business Enterprise Portal and Mobile application. You will provide innovative/creative solutions for Mobility, Product and Services initiatives and deliver robust application design that provides intuitive user interface and easy navigation for the customer and thus drive self-service for B2B users.
• You will provide guidance to junior members, both onshore and offshore, to develop, unit test and integration test the application modules for My Business application. You will collaborate with interfacing teams, define target dates for unit testing and integration testing and ensure end to end robustness and scalability of code. You will participate in defining coding standards, ensure timely completion of code review and security scans with Fortify and technical debt assessment for the code enhancements and take steps to meet the standards for these elements.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's Degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant experience.
• Experience in monitoring tools such as New Relic or Kibana.
• Experience in Java, J2EE, Oracle DB, Web Services, and Unix Shell Scripting.
• Experience with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• A keen understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) aspects.
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure of deadlines.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changes in business requirements and technology.
• Strong strategic, analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Teamwork and collaboration skills to work across organizations and lead cross-functional teams.
• The ability to educate team members about integrating systems collaboratively and efficiently.
• The ability to assess system usage trends and identify potential performance constraints with inter-system designs.
• Able to work through issues independently.
• Problem solving skills to develop quick yet sound solutions to resolve complex production issues.
• The ability to clearly present to business and technical audiences.
• Strong knowledge of applicable methodologies, tools, standards, and procedures.
• Strong background in performance tuning of Java/J2EE applications.
• Strong background in Mobile application integration with RESTful/SOAP services.
• Teamwork and collaboration skills to work across organizations and lead cross-functional teams.
• Ability to effectively communicate with external vendors and stakeholder on urgent application issues.
• Ability to provide after-hours support on a rotation.
• Strong background in application design patterns and frameworks.
• Knowledge of NLP using customized Dialog Flow intents, AI/Machine learning and algorithms, Trained Predictive Modeling and Deep personalization on the UI using AEM.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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