Cogniance is a professional software development consultancy that works with startups and sustainable high tech companies on the development of Web 2.0 and Mobile products.

Cogniance is building a world-class company on a strong foundation of world-class people. Cogniance is a brand new company with a big vision where each successful employee has the possibility to influence the shape of the company and new products.

Project:

Our team is developing mGage - an online, fully integrated mobile marketing and advertising platform. It is built on a modular architecture designed to handle the full life cycle of mobile marketing and advertising. We are looking for Software Architect with significant Java experience.

Major responsibilities for the role are:

• Create and modfiy architecture of a complex enterprise applications against requirements
• Provide overall design and structure of the application. Identify and address architectural challenges
• Prepare architectural documents and presentations
• Choose the right technologies, frameworks, 3-d party components and tools for the development, testing and deployment of the application
• Focus on the standards and technologies for enabling systems performance qualities, such as availability, scalability, recoverability, etc
• Define patterns, coding & design guidelines and best practices to achieve the architectural vision
• Identify and mitigate technical risks during the development of products
• Mentor project team members

The successful candidate should meet the following requirements:

• Good analytical/problem solving skills
• Solid software development experience
• Solid experience in design and implementation of multi-tier J2EE web-based applications
• Deep understanding of OOA, OOD, Design patterns (including J2EE patterns)
• Successful experience in creating project architecture from scratch as well as good understanding of reengineering and refactoring processes and approaches
• Practical experience with J2EE application servers (preferably JBoss, Tomcat)
• Expertise in J2EE server technologies: EJB, JMS, JTA, JPA, Web Services
• Good exposure to Spring, Hibernate
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• noSQL knowledge will be a plus
• Experience with Hadoop or any other Map/Reduce will be a plus
• Being an active code writer/reviewer is a must.

Personal skills:

• Possess good communication skills and team player abilities
• Fluent spoken and written English

Company offers:

• Competitive salary offer, payments according to CrossBank course
• Extensive career plan
• Flexible working hours
• English language courses
• Coverage of medical insurance or sports activities
• Paid vacation (24 working days)
• Great team and challenging projects
• Chance for international travel

http://cogniance.com/vacancies