Liferay Architect - Atlanta, GA

Position ID: NAL-1406-26

Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6months
Interview Type: Phone & F2F
( 60% travel to the location, 40% remote)

Job Descriopion:

Must have: Total 10+ years of experience with a minimum of 5 years of Liferay experience

Position Description:

• The role requires both broad and deep technology knowledge and the ability to architect client-side Web based solutions by mapping common customer business problems to end-to-end technology solutions. Demonstrated ability to engage in senior level technology decision maker discussions related to agility, business value, and architecture is a must.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture, preferably in the context of highly scalable, clustered Java web applications using Liferay
• Understanding of Liferay architecture and the components on which it is based 

Responsibilities:

• Develop project technology strategy by understanding key client objectives; diagnosing and mapping client requirements; articulating solution risks and barriers; recommending project approaches; preparing time and cost estimates; planning full project life cycle 
• Lead and facilitate information gathering sessions to validate business cases, gather and document business and functional objectives 
• Implement architecture by building components and custom designs; prototyping; data migration; maintaining technical integrity and consistency; documenting system 
• Design and implement Liferay-based web frameworks, libraries, or accelerators to be used as value-added product offerings
• Manage customer relationship by communicating Liferay architecture standards and frameworks; answering questions; resolving concerns and issues
• Recommend Liferay-based solutions, based upon existing products and/or custom work
• Establishing architectural and development standards around Liferay
• Validate system performance by developing and conducting test scripts; completing bug fixes

Required Skills:

Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in IT 
• 5+ years of experience working with Liferay with atleast 3 years on architecting / designing solutions on Liferay platform
• 3 + years of experience working with WSRP, SOA, REST, Java Spring MVC Framework, HTML, JS, CSS
• Experience with JSR 168, JSR 286, in particular is critical
• 5+ years in application architecture/enterprise architecture, systems integration and development, package implementation 
• Proven leadership and managerial skills to independently manage teams, during multiple phases of the project lifecycle
• Strong skills to effectively interface with client executives
• Good business analysis/redesign skills with architecture and implementation experience 
• Requirements analysis, conceptual, logical and detailed design skills
• Configuration planning, testing, change management and support experience
• Project management with complex projects and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of Web architectures including portals, application servers, security, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and .Net technologies is a plus 
• Knowledge of relational database technologies and data access patterns and frameworks is a plus
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field
• Exposure to other portal platforms like Vignette, Weblogic Portal, JBoss Portal, Websphere Portal
• Experience with software development methodologies (SDLC, agile, etc.) and supporting technologies (bug tracking, source control, change and configuration management, etc.)

Other Skills (desired): 

• Demonstrated consulting skills, including client relationships and team facilitation
• Well-developed organizational and interpersonal communications skills
• General understanding of the business environment, models and motivations 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, such as meeting facilitation, presentation and documentation 
• Have strong collaboration and influencing skills 
• Project management experience is a plus
• Consulting experience with a large multi-national is a plus
• Work experience in the Insurance, Banking, Financial Services, Healthcare, Communication industries is a plus. 
• Work with the Liferay community on open source extensions to the core product

Travel:

• Ability to apply for a visa – no prior visa rejections. 
• International travel to client location for short/long term as needed.

Interested candidates can send resumes to jobs@nallas.com with position ID in subject line