Job Description: As an Enterprise Development group responsible for driving the emerging and dynamic Business Intelligence and Analytics space, we design, code and manage critical applications and infrastructure and are currently looking for a solid and motivated Java programmer to join our team. The different services our group offers are allowing our business users to extract, transform, view, analyze and generate dynamic decision support artifacts from their data. As Business Intelligence comprises a large and interesting field that is increasing in importance for the firm, so is the profile of the group and the pressure to develop and deliver analytical capability. With our customer base rapidly growing and Business Intelligence driving more and more processes, we are expanding our Enterprise Business Intelligence Services (EBIS) Development and Engineering team. The team is fast paced, dynamic, results oriented and currently handles development matters related to Business Intelligence including in-house data warehouses, analytics and other emerging products in the space. The team evaluates and incorporates vendor and open source products for visualization, analytics of BigData and complex event processing like Hadoop and Mondrian. Developing these products for the required scale, throughput and availability as well as writing code for full custom backend implementations in Java, C# and C++ are within the team's responsibility. We are also responsible for developing applications for mobile devices like iPads. The team is located in New York, Montreal, London and Shanghai. We have many different projects the team is responsible for and encourage team members to mix things up and choose a variety of different projects to work on over time. Being a member of the team, would entail the following: + Design, Code and maintain new and existing applications and Infrastructure. + Working with the Business side to understand their needs and define how our products and infrastructure will meet those needs + Participate in design and coding activities with members of the team. + Research and assess new technologies, vendor and open source libraries, implement proof-of-concept prototypes + Investigate, locate and fix coding defects for existing applications. + Creating conceptual and detailed designs for the components being developed or integrated into the environment + Reviewing designs with team members + Balance time to market of new features with stability and performance + Working with other internal infrastructure teams to develop, build, manage and problem-solve + Participating in teams level 3 on-call rotation (including occasional weekend work) / Support is less than 10% + Problem management + Software release management Skills Required: + Strong programming background, Excellent problem solving, organizational and communications skills. + Good analytical and design skills + Java, J2EE, Spring + Multi Threading, Testing Frameworks (Junit, PowerMock etc) + Experience with Object Oriented Programming and design patterns + Good RDBMS skills + Experience working with Web Services, SOAP + Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Skills Desired: + Familiarity with Web Technologies: ExtJs, JQuery, Flex, Servlets, JSP, HTML/DHTML, JavaScript, CSS + Experience with DB2 and Sybase; knowledge of columnar, nosql databases, Hadoop, MDX is a plus. + Experience using messaging frameworks: MQ, JMS. + Experience using development tools: Eclipse, etc + Understanding of the Software development life cycle. + Familiarity with Unix/Linux shell + Familiarity with different storage technologies (SAN, NAS, NFS, CIFS, etc) + Familiarity with High Availability, Load Balancing concepts (F5, MQ) + Exposure to 64-bit operating systems Windows/Linux This is not an entry level position. Princeton Information is one of the nation's top five privately-held IT consulting firms, in business since 1985. Princeton Information services a clientele of primarily Fortune 500 companies nationwide. With annual revenues over $120 million, Princeton Information operates across the US from multiple regional offices. 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