Software Architect (Java)

Job ID: 624
City: San Diego
State: CA
Country: US
Job Category: Product Development

Description:
The Active Network, Inc. (NYSE:ACTV) is the leading provider of organization-based cloud computing applications--serving the business events, community activities, outdoors and sports markets-- with over 47,000 global business customers and 70 million annual transactions reported last year. Our technology platform, ActiveWorks(R), transforms the way organizers manage their activities and events by automating online registrations and streamlining other critical management functions, while also driving consumer participation to their events. Our flagship media property, Active.com(R), is the leading online community for people who want to discover, participate in, and share activities about which they are passionate.

Come join one of the most exciting, high growth companies in San Diego that combines an Active culture along with high tech environment utilizing the latest technologies. We are looking for the best and brightest for this role as they will be instrumental in helping to design the future of a highly configurable, high volume application platform that will support multiple market applications as well as core Business Intelligence functions.

This individual will play a vital role in Active's largest and most important projects through leadership, direction and mentoring to support several developers throughout the company. This is an exciting technical leadership role where coding expertise is needed and is an opportunity for growth for someone that wants to stay in a technical career path.

Responsibilities:
- Hands-on development, being able to deliver sophisticated, high-quality solutions in a timely fashion
- Ability to create architectural artifacts, documentation and training of architectural patterns and solutions
- Plan, lead and implement projects that span from a few days to six months
- Drive improvements and processes behind architectural consistency and software productivity

Required Skills:
- 10+ years of Java experience
- 2+ years experience as a team lead
- Experience with Java based frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, CXF)
- Previous experience building high-traffic web sites
- One or more Scripting language (python, ruby, etc.)
- UML (familiar with the majority of diagram types)
- Expert troubleshooter with a deep understanding of performance tuning of Java applications on Unix
- Familiar with architectural solutions that span or involve enterprise, Middleware, service buses, fat and Thin Client user interfaces, SOA, event driven, transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing and workflow
- Proven experience working on complex, mission-critical projects

Nice to have:
- Experience with Flex, AJAX, Scala and Oracle

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