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J2EE Application Engineer
at EA
Bucharest, Romania
ENTERTAINING IS OUR PASSION
EA was founded over 25 years ago by individuals with a deep passion for making games. Many things have changed over the years as the gaming industry—and the company—has expanded immensely, but we are still driven by the same passion for developing, publishing, and distributing the world’s best games. Our history has been one of great success, and our future looks even brighter. Gaming has come a long way from Pac-Man & Space Invaders to modern EA Favourites like Burnout, Battlefield, Mercenaries, Dead Space, Spore, FIFA, Madden, Need for Speed and the world’s most successful game franchise, The Sims. Fuelled by our talented staff at locations right across the Globe we are united in our passion to continue shaping the future of interactive entertainment. Together we can make a difference.
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Position Summary:
Develop and maintain EA world wide applications. Provide the technical domain leadership required to effectively deliver high-quality, timely solutions and services globally that meet the company’s business needs.
The ideal candidate must be able to function and thrive in a rapidly changing, agile development environment, and deliver high-quality, timely results without being micromanaged.
Key Responsibilities:
Solution Delivery and Support:
• Closely partners with business analysts and customers to assess feasibility, complexity, and scope of new capabilities and solutions
• Ensures that all capabilities delivered align with original business objectives, service levels, and design intent
• Participates in design, development, estimating, and scheduling
• Drives and leads technical designs, including requirements analysis, and documentation
• Manages and maintains appropriate development and test environments to support production and solution delivery
• Ensures technical documentation is kept up to date (use cases, process diagrams, system information, technical documents)
• Maintains overall responsibility for quality of production deployments
• Defines proactive activities and tasks required for optimization of stability, performance and architecture
• Understands worldwide, enterprise, distributed systems and system interactions
Team / Project Leadership:
• Demonstrates a sound understanding of EA functional / business objectives that drive and shape technology requirements and design deliverables
• Possesses, develops, and applies knowledge of trends, relevant system development technologies and methodologies
• Ensures quality and consistency of design, development, testing, and integration testing cycles and deliverables
• Drives continuous improvement; may include design, definition of roadmaps, standardization of processes and methodologies
Job Qualifications:
Essential:
• Experience with the J2EE stack, web services, and front-end frameworks (Tomcat, Struts, etc.)
• Experience designing/developing for web-based software applications
• Experience with complementing technologies such as XML, AJAX, and JavaScript
• Experience with UI design and Web 2.0 technology
• Experience with database development/programming: MS SQL (tSQL) and/or Oracle (PL/SQL)
• Extensive operating system knowledge in Windows 2008 R2 and Linux
• Experience building scalable, high availability, mission critical applications
• Extensive experience in application design, architecture, development and implementation of software projects using J2EE
• In-depth knowledge of advanced design techniques, specifically web application modeling
• Ability to conduct complex systems analysis and translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high volume, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a development team
Desirable:
• Experience with content or digital asset management systems, like Nuxeo, OpenText, etc.
• Experience with Business Process Management (BPM) applications, WebSphere Lombardi Edition in particular
• Past experience working in a distributed development team
• Experience developing using Agile methodologies
Educational Requirements:
• BS or MS in Computer Science or other related degree
• Fluency in written and spoken English
EA was founded over 25 years ago by individuals with a deep passion for making games. Many things have changed over the years as the gaming industry—and the company—has expanded immensely, but we are still driven by the same passion for developing, publishing, and distributing the world’s best games. Our history has been one of great success, and our future looks even brighter. Gaming has come a long way from Pac-Man & Space Invaders to modern EA Favourites like Burnout, Battlefield, Mercenaries, Dead Space, Spore, FIFA, Madden, Need for Speed and the world’s most successful game franchise, The Sims. Fuelled by our talented staff at locations right across the Globe we are united in our passion to continue shaping the future of interactive entertainment. Together we can make a difference.
.
Position Summary:
Develop and maintain EA world wide applications. Provide the technical domain leadership required to effectively deliver high-quality, timely solutions and services globally that meet the company’s business needs.
The ideal candidate must be able to function and thrive in a rapidly changing, agile development environment, and deliver high-quality, timely results without being micromanaged.
Key Responsibilities:
Solution Delivery and Support:
• Closely partners with business analysts and customers to assess feasibility, complexity, and scope of new capabilities and solutions
• Ensures that all capabilities delivered align with original business objectives, service levels, and design intent
• Participates in design, development, estimating, and scheduling
• Drives and leads technical designs, including requirements analysis, and documentation
• Manages and maintains appropriate development and test environments to support production and solution delivery
• Ensures technical documentation is kept up to date (use cases, process diagrams, system information, technical documents)
• Maintains overall responsibility for quality of production deployments
• Defines proactive activities and tasks required for optimization of stability, performance and architecture
• Understands worldwide, enterprise, distributed systems and system interactions
Team / Project Leadership:
• Demonstrates a sound understanding of EA functional / business objectives that drive and shape technology requirements and design deliverables
• Possesses, develops, and applies knowledge of trends, relevant system development technologies and methodologies
• Ensures quality and consistency of design, development, testing, and integration testing cycles and deliverables
• Drives continuous improvement; may include design, definition of roadmaps, standardization of processes and methodologies
Job Qualifications:
Essential:
• Experience with the J2EE stack, web services, and front-end frameworks (Tomcat, Struts, etc.)
• Experience designing/developing for web-based software applications
• Experience with complementing technologies such as XML, AJAX, and JavaScript
• Experience with UI design and Web 2.0 technology
• Experience with database development/programming: MS SQL (tSQL) and/or Oracle (PL/SQL)
• Extensive operating system knowledge in Windows 2008 R2 and Linux
• Experience building scalable, high availability, mission critical applications
• Extensive experience in application design, architecture, development and implementation of software projects using J2EE
• In-depth knowledge of advanced design techniques, specifically web application modeling
• Ability to conduct complex systems analysis and translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high volume, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a development team
Desirable:
• Experience with content or digital asset management systems, like Nuxeo, OpenText, etc.
• Experience with Business Process Management (BPM) applications, WebSphere Lombardi Edition in particular
• Past experience working in a distributed development team
• Experience developing using Agile methodologies
Educational Requirements:
• BS or MS in Computer Science or other related degree
• Fluency in written and spoken English