Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Great-West - Senior Java Developer, Web Developer

Great-West is currently hiring a software systems engineer to join the Individual Markets Systems team of application software professionals. Candidate will provide research, analysis, design, coding and unit testing in support of various in-house developed systems.
Requirements:
5 years Java coding experience, including Java 5
3 years JSP/Struts or Java Servlets
3 years Object Oriented analysis and design
3 years Oracle RDBMS, PL/SQL and stored procedures
3 years UNIX or Solaris
2 years EJBs using BEA Weblogic Application Server
XML
Eclipse
ANT
Web Services development
Subversion, VSS or TFS version control
Excellent communication skills working with business users
On-call production support on a periodic cycle
Other desirable experience:
SUN Java Certification
J2EE Web Application development
Hiberbate
Maven
JBoss Application Server, JBoss Seam, JBoss Drools, JBoss jBPM
JSF
AJAX
PDF Tools or iText
XSD, XHTML
Architecture or system design experience
Very good documentation or technical writing skills
Life Insurance or Financial industry experience

Education Required: Requires a related technical bachelor's degree (e.g. computer science, information systems, math, engineering, physics, etc.) or a non technical bachelor's degree (e.g. Business Administration) and equivalent applicable work experience.
With more than a century of experience in providing financial security for Americans, Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company serves millions of customers through a range of retirement savings products and services, life insurance, and annuities. Headquartered in metro Denver with offices around the country, Great-West is a leading provider of employer-sponsored retirement savings plans. It also provides annuity and life insurance products for individuals, families and corporate executives. Our corporate departments - including Corporate Administration, Financial Reporting, Human Resources, Investment Management, and Legal - support our business segments. Great-West has consistently received high industry ratings for financial strength.

For more information, please visit Great-West Life & Annuity at www.greatwest.com. We are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity. We are committed to providing a drug-free workplace.

You'll find good people at Great-West.
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Great-West is currently hiring a Senior Java Programmer/Developer (Senior Internet Developer) to join our Financial Services team of technical professionals. This individual will be responsible for development of business to customer Internet applications for use by external clients
Requirements:
Object-oriented analysis, design, and development abilities
3+ years general Java language experience
Previous experience with JSP/Struts
Experience with JSF (Java Server Pages)
Previous experience with a relational database query language such as Oracle SQL
Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required
Other desirable experience:
Development experience writing and debugging J2EE Web applications
Experience with web languages and standards including HTML, XML, CSS and JavaScript
BEA Weblogic Application server
UNIX operating systems (Sun Solaris), Tools & Utilities
Sun JAVA Certification
Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, Project)
This position requires a degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent applicable work experience.


For more than 100 years, Great-West's strength, commitment, and values have endured the instability of financial markets and industry turbulence, and it is with confidence we can say we will continue to provide health care, financial solutions and investment management to meet our customers' needs for years to come. Great-West is a solid organization backed by strong financial ratings and exceptional employees. We will continue to strive to provide excellent service and affordable health care and savings options to help secure the financial future of Americans across the country. Each year, we build on our past success. We stay focused. We take care of business, and we take care of our customers and our employees.