POSITION OPEN AS OF AUGUST 13. Major entertainment company in Culver City has a contract to hire position open for a Senior Java Software Developer. The Software Developer is responsible for supporting the technological/functional aspects of the Sales and Distribution Applications which support the TV Line of Business globally. Each application currently has varying technologies involved based on the needs of that region. The Senior Developer is also responsible for the guiding the resolution of the day to day issues with the support team plus acting as an escalation point. The Developer will also give direction to the development teams on the best technologies to be used and how to maximize the existing design or latest technologies. Will also oversee all deliverables and resource loading working closely with his partner vendors on delivery. Responsibilities include: • Support internal and external resources to solve the technical challenges of a software project including the overall architecture of the desired system. • Leads geographically distributed development teams, including mentoring junior team developers and provide team leadership. • Leads technical teams in understanding non-functional requirements for availability, scalability, robustness, fault tolerance & security. • Provide Level 2 and/or 3 support in incident and problem resolution • Identify and work with appropriate teams, proactively, to resolve all technology issues with applications (infrastructure, performance, code etc.) • Support the selection/development and implementation of innovative, technology-based solutions that will result in a reliable, flexible, coherent and cost-effective global infrastructure for the benefit of all businesses worldwide • Develop and maintain expertise and leadership within IT for an assigned set of applications and/or infrastructure technologies, methodologies, analytical methods and/or processes ensuring that they operate to and meet or exceed the service level standards (SLAs) • Support enterprise infrastructure solutions and business application systems according to the IT technology policies and standards that meet the processing and information needs of clients (internal and/or external) and implement them on–time and on-budget • Collaborate with the teams to research third party products and solutions, and bring innovative, value-enriching technology-based solutions to the Company • Support the IT Audit requirements and the business continuity and disaster recovery standards and procedures • Understand and ensure compliance with various Information Security, Compliance, Legal and/or regulatory requirements as applicable • Support the Data Integrity, Process, Technology, Audit & Security architecture requirements of the company and ensure that software is developed according to the software development standards established by the IT organization. • Understand and leverage the use of enterprise standards, technologies and platforms such as content management, identity management, integration, reporting and others • Understand and leverage enterprise data repositories, business process re-use and/or master data within the company Key outputs include: • Document non-functional and technical requirements where required • High- and low-level design documents and technical specifications for development and enhancement work efforts • Contribute to Problem Management & Root cause analyses • Contribution of technical documentation to GSD knowledge database • Contribution of technical documentation to IT knowledge database Job Requirements: • At least 2 years in a Lead role • J2EE, JBoss, Oracle, MVC, Spring • Knowledgeable of enterprise-wide technology infrastructures in one of the following IT disciplines: Platform Services (desktop & mobile devices), Global Telecommunications, Data Stores and OLAP (data warehouses, data marts, data bases), Web Technologies, IT Architecture (Process and information, applications, technology architectures), application development methodologies, and/or application development tools/techniques/practices • Knowledgeable of technology infrastructure and in the applications layer with a track record for delivering business application systems on-time, on-budget, and functionally on-target • Experienced in translating business requirements into technical specifications and in developing prototypes and in launching pilot tests