Friday, October 11, 2013

EchoStar - Developer

EchoStar delivers innovative products and services that power global communication, commerce and entertainment. Through our market-leading Digital Broadcast Centers across North America, we operate one the world’s largest and most advanced digital broadcast networks, serving over 17 million end users every day. Our historical pioneering development of market solutions such as satellite spot-beam technology, end-to-end MPEG4 video delivery, placeshifting, whole home DVR sharing and VSAT data network management have consistently set new standards in the industry.

Summary:

EchoStar is seeking a Principal Oracle EDI B2B Developer for our Englewood, CO headquarters who can be part of a large team in a dynamic and changing environment. Projects include a full lifecycle design, development, strong J2EE implementation maintenance for mission critical applications.

The Principal EDI B2B Developer reports directly into the Manager of Technical Development for the duration of the project. He will collaborate with a team of senior developers, and solution architects in defining the overall EDI/SOA solution and integration strategy for a brand new program area. The solution requires information exchange and implementation of distributed business processes with multiple external organizations using best of breed EDI/SOA components (ESB, Business Rules, Workflow, Messaging, etc.). The candidate will work with several partners and sub-contractors to maintain one cohesive architecture and develop and implement EDI/OA governance processes, design review process and code/software auditing processes. The candidate will be responsible for the design and implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture requiring information exchange and distributed business processes with multiple external organizations. The candidate should feel very comfortable rationalizing architecture decisions in clear/objective manner for the client and should have ability to work in a multi-vendor environment and achieve broad consensus.


Responsibilities:
              Provide expertise in the design, development and implementation of EDI integrations and software solutions that meet the business requirements of the organization.
               Develop, test, and install electronic transaction interfaces with customers, suppliers and 3rd party business partners. Interfaces include all EDI transactions and XML messages.
               Develop, test, and maintain EDI process flows, document maps and configurations.
              Work closely with multiple Oracle and SAP teams on EDI/SOA implementations.
               Assist in establishing processes for EDI/SOA activities within global environment.
              Work closely with internal and external customers, EDI partners, and other IT personnel to identify process gaps and define potential solutions.
               Responsible for creating application architecture and design documents in compliance with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
              Work with team of developers to develop a mission-critical, maintainable and achievable SOA based enterprise architecture.
               Architect with a balanced view of all key architectural quality metrics such as performance, scalability, reliability, availability, agility and interoperability. Develop pragmatic solution that balances strategic and tactical concerns.
               Create innovative and efficient technical applications by identifying products and/or technologies that need to be researched.
               Hands-on implementation of multiple JEE and SOA solution components, design and development of frameworks for multiple teams.
               Design and implement a reusable architectural framework and processes that enables various development teams to focus on creating business logic and not spend time on plumbing.
               Provide technical guidance to all members of the SOA Center of Excellence;
             Act as task leader for the implementation of the Oracle SOA Suite;
               Develop and implement SOA Governance plan



Basic Requirements:
               A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related degree
               4+ years of experience architecting, leading complicated integration and/or SOA based projects.
               5+ years of experience on B2B Integration with 2-3 years on Gentran Integration Suite (GIS) or Sterling Integrator (SI), GPM, BPML, trading partner configuration, map development and EDI standards
               3 + years of experience working with EDI systems design, development, and analysis, including knowledge of trading partner/scheduling agreements and configurations, mapping, connectivity (VAN, AS2, HTTP),ANSIX12 and XML standards.



Preferred Qualifications:
              Experience in GIS/SI patch installation and administration.
               Experience in all B2B protocols and web services.
               Strong knowledge of UNIX (Solaris, HPUX) and LINUX and shell script design.
               Strong Knowledge of Enterprise Application and Business-to-Business Integration.
               Experience in XPATH, XML, XSL, BPML, BPEL.
               Experience working with document transfer protocols: Connect:Direct, Connect:Enterprise, FTP/FTPs, HTTP/HTTPs, SFTP, SMTP,SOAP, SwiftNet, WebServices, AS1, AS2, AS3, etc.
               Experience configuring and managing IBM STERLING B2B INTEGRATOR in a High Availability Configuration.
               Experience with Java / J2EE preferred.
               Experience working with Oracle, SQL Server, mySQL databases: database sizing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and query design.
               Experience with Oracle SOA design and implementation.
               Hands-on experience as solution architecture for large-scale projects and communication skills to articulate, rationalize and document architectural decisions.
               Solid experience with “loosely-coupled” SOA architecture components including Enterprise Service Bus, Service Registry and Service Repository based architectures. Knowledge of service composition and orchestrations using ESB, BPEL and workflow components.
               Hands-on ability provisioning and integrating services using Enterprise Service Bus using a middleware SOA Platform like JBoss SOA Platform, Oracle SOA platform, etc. Ability to leverage ESB for service composition, mediation, routing and other cross-cutting concerns.
               Experience with Web Services, REST, WS-I compliance, WS-* standards, WS-Security standards, XML Schema authorizing, XPath, XQuery. Real world experience with messaging (JMS, MQ, Active MQ, etc.).
               Collaborative leadership skills, strong communications and team-building skills that optimize contributions from diverse, highly-skilled professionals. Ability to consider various view points and working with Technical manager to determine best solution.
               Solid understanding of deployment and infrastructure architecture principles and how to deploy SOA based architecture in a virtualized/cloud environment and design for scalability, performance and availability.
               Experience with portal products like JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Oracle Web Center or equivalent desirable. Ability to architect flexible and extensible Web UI
               Strong experience with Oracle products such as WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite 11g including the development and design of Mediator, Rules Engine and Proxy Services components.
               Strong troubleshooting and administrative skills using WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle Service Bus 11g in a highly available environment.
               Good Linux operating system skills

Benefits:
Medical, Health Savings Account, Dental and VBision Insurance
Flexible spending options and Employee Assistance Plan
401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition Reimbursement
Employee Referral Program
Training Opportunities
FREE DISH Network Satellite TV System and Programming
FREE Hughes Network Service
40% Discounts on Sling technology and service
Corporate discounts for retail and personal travel
Opportunity for a level of responsibility that could take years to reach in other companies

EchoStar is an EEO employer (M/F/D/V)