You must be results-oriented, self-motivated and have the ability to thrive in a fast-pace environment.  This role requires frequent interaction with project managers, developers, third-party application vendors, product managers, sales and helpdesk professionals in order to ensure that we deliver a quality-trading platform to our users.

Stressing the architecture both an application and system-wide level in order to ensure our systems meet management goals for reliability, scalability, capacity and performance. In addition you will be responsible for harvesting and reporting on business and technical metrics associated with our clearing platform.

·        Design effective component, application and enterprise level capacity, reliability, availability and performance tests

·        Designs should include establishment of repeatable procedures for data aging, test execution, baseline recording and trend development

·        Implement testing tools using custom scripts and Java

·        Analyze application behavior under load using best practice, J2SE/J2EE technology analysis techniques in particular relating to Java heap analysis.

·        Certify conceptually and via test execution, each components' reliability and failover capabilities

·        Analyze, troubleshoot and tune systems at the application, database and network level

Requirements

·        Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science

·        You must  have strong working knowledge of high-volume, transactional systems utilizing J2EE App Servers, JMS or other Messaging Implementations ( MQ or BEA JMS preferred), Transaction Management, JDBC and distributed architecture

·        Proficient in J2SE/J2EE technology to analyze code

·        Strong working knowledge is required in each of the following: Java, J2EE technologies, Java Servlets, JSP, JMS, JDBC and distributed computing

5+ years experience in the IT industry working in Java development and/or Performance Tuning;

Experience with Open-Source Technologies required(e.g.: Hibernate, Jakarta Commons, Spring Framework, Spring, JUnit, Eclipse, JMX, Ant);

Comfortable with database development concepts (SQL, PL/SQL, views, etc)

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment, and deliver production quality software within tight schedules;

Good verbal and written communication skills, with proven track record of producing and reviewing use cases, providing estimates, and organizing tasks.