Candidate's must be willing to work on a W2 basis, no third party vendors please. A leading Financial Services client in Charlotte, NC is currently seeking a Java Architect for a long term opportunity. Targeted Skills & Competencies: J2EE, Oracle/BEA Weblogic, SOA, Web Services, Datastage ETL Job Responsibilities include - - Work closely with development teams and facilitate performance requirements during design phase and provide best practices for code profiling, tuning and optimizations for Java based applications. - Provide technical leadership in investigation, diagnosis and remediation of performance problems found in production operations and during project execution. - Partner with multiple development, infrastructure teams and software vendors to troubleshoot performance issues across technology stack of network, web tier, application tier and database tiers. - Assist in capacity planning of web applications hosted on virtualized infrastructure - Produce solution designs that adhere to solution architecture and enterprise strategy roadmaps. - Perform design reviews for all systems that are part of the end to end solution. - Collaborate with solution architecture during the creation and documentation of solution definition document. Tasks and Responsibilities: Design Reviews Test Case Reviews JAD Session Coordination across multiple techincal teams. Suggested Experience & Qualifications: Technical Leader to help lead and manage large channel delivery project technical resources (500K - 3 M range). Technology skills should include expertise in JEE frameworks, Oracle/BEA Weblogic suite of products, UCM and SOA. Must have worked collaboratively with program/project managers as well as infrastructure partners Join TEKsystems() and get your career on the fast track. As the leading technology staffing and services firm, we are passionate about deploying high-caliber IT and communications expertise. To satisfy our constant need for expertise, we actively seek talented Technical Professionals with all levels of information technology and communications skills. TEKsystems knows that every professional has different needs, so we'll work together to determine a suitable benefits package. We offer options to our Technical Professionals that could include: a health plan, 401k, provisions for vacation and holiday pay, and technical and professional training. With a foundation as the nation's largest IT staffing firm, we've become a billion-dollar services company by blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage talent to precise specifications, resulting in successful technology executions. Allegis Group and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. M/F/D/V