Looking for a new, excellent long term contract opportunity in the financial services sector based in the cosmopolitan city of Paris?
Daily tasks:
- Contribute to establish and enhance the IT architecture;
- Design IT solutions that meet business requirements in line with the IT architectural principles;
- Participating in writing functional and technical specifications;
- Writing technical documentation for tender procedures;
- Work with colleagues and users to collect requirements, analyse and evaluate proposals, conduct negotiations and implement specifications according to defined architectural standards;
- Manage the test department for the applications under your responsibility;
- Deployment of applications into the test environment;
- Integrate applications, Middleware and components;
Core Knowledge and skills:
- Excellent JEE Skills (including Spring, JSP)
- Good Unix Scripting skills
- Good integration experience
- IT architecture methodologies
General Knowledge and skills:
- Good knowledge of SQL, XML, LDAP and SSO solutions;
- Strong knowledge of state-of-the-art IT methodologies and tools;
- Proven ability in translating technological issues in a business context;
- Identifying technical solutions for business requirements;
- Experience in team/group facilitation, project management and training would be an advantage;
- Excellent analytical skills;
- Ability to work under pressure and to deliver to agreed deadlines;
- Proven ability to generate a range of possible, also innovative, solutions and to assess the implications of these solutions;
- Good interpersonal skills, in particular communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to work in a team and co-ordinate own activities with others;
- Very good command of English. Knowledge of another European language