Application Architect
Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Tallahassee, Florida)

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Citizens Property Insurance Corporation was created by Florida’s legislature in 2002 to serve property owners in high-risk areas and provide much-needed property coverage to Floridians who can’t obtain coverage in the voluntary market.    We are the largest P&C carrier in the State of Florida and we are growing!  Currently the following opportunity is available in our Tallahassee office:

 

POSITION SUMMARY:  The application architect core responsibilities are to develop and publish architecture standards for the areas responsible for, mentor functional development teams on standards and best practices, provide continuity for major application solution decisions and actively participate in pilot project architecture, design and development.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: THE FOLLOWING ARE THE USUAL, BASIC AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION.  THESE FUNCTIONS ARE NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF ALL RESPONSIBILITIES, DUTIES, AND SKILLS REQUIRED.

§         Architect enterprise wide application frameworks to promote reuse and maintainability in business applications.

§         Evangelize enterprise standards and frameworks through training boot camps for different development groups.

§         Participate/consult with initial phase development of new projects.

§         Document and publish standards, best practices and reference implementations.

§         Be able to balance varied tasks and projects and quickly shift focus amongst various systems and applications

§         Work effectively in a team environment

§         Will serve as “go to” person in one of the following specialties.

Persistence ArchitectureSpring transaction managementPersistence layer design/architecture (Spring JDBC and iBatis)Batch processingScheduling engine (FLUX)SQL OptimizationService Oriented ArchitectureEnterprise SOAEnterprise application integration, enterprise service bus, web services (CXF/XFire/JAX-WS).Cross cutting utilities, frameworks, and aspect oriented programming. Build process and continuous integrationPresentation ArchitectureSpring 2.5 MVC, and Spring Web Flow.Application security (Spring Security)Front edge server architecture, caching, reverse proxy, configuration and load balancing.jQuery, AJAX patterns, JavaScript, DHTML, and CSSEfficient and user friendly UI design.PerformanceEnterprise application architecture for performancePerformance evaluation and performance diagnostic of production applications Wily Introscope and JProfiler expertiseScalable application server architecture.

 

Knowledge, Skill(s), and Ability(ies) - List any required, entry-level knowledge, skill(s), or ability(ies) for this position and any other required Knowledge, Skill(s), and Ability(ies) which are not listed in the class specifications.

§         Strong analytical and problem solving skills are required in addition to excellent inter-personnel, written, and verbal communication skills.

§         High degree of leadership and people skills.

§         High level of integrity, positive attitude, commitment, toughness and people skills.

§         Ability to establish attainable goals, objectives, and work plans.

§         Ability to organize material, analyze a wide variety of facts and develop appropriate recommendations.

§         Ability to effectively communicate in non-technical terms with end users for application development and problem resolution tasks

 

Minimum Requirements:

§         Master’s Degree or equivalent experience.

§         Experience configuring and developing with SQL databases

§         At least 5 years of J2EE application development experience.

§         At least 3 years of SQL experience.

§         At least 2 years of experience with application development frameworks.

§         At least 2 years of experience with Spring Framework.

 

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

§         J2EE

§         Spring 2.0

§         iBatis

§         FLUX experience – strongly preferred.

 

Citizens offers a terrific working environment in beautiful northwest Florida. Tallahassee, which is Florida's capital, is close to the water, offers a family-oriented community, top-rated schools, many cultural activities, first rate college athletic events through Florida State University, and a pleasant change of seasons.

 

Citizens offers competitive compensation. In addition, we have benefits which begin on the first day of employment and include retirement savings with a very generous company match, medical, dental, group life, short term disability, professional development opportunities and educational reimbursement. 

 

For further details and to apply, please visit our website at http://www.citizensfla.com/jobs.asp

 

Equal opportunity employer