Opportunity with Sapient - Websphere Commerce

Sapient Corporation is a global services firm headquartered in Boston, MA (Massachusetts). Today we operate out of 24 offices across North America (USA, Canada), Europe (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands), and APAC (India, Singapore, Hong Kong). We are publicly traded company (traded on NASDAQ ) and reported $662million in revenues last year (2008). Over 7000 people work with us globally, nearly 2/3rd of them in India.
Sapeint has its own development center in India which is one of the worlds largest development center, holding top 10 fortune 500 compaines finest projects.
At Sapeint you will get to work on a complete life cycle of projects and gets exposed and global visibility to grow with Sapient. Our Sapient Culture is rated at the best practice in the world and we are proud to inform you that Sapient work culture is been taught at the Harverd University in London.
We have proven experience and capabilities in helping our clients realize measurable outcomes in their IT, Operations and Marketing initiatives. With strong industry depth, our representative client list includes
We are currently looking for Senior Associates on WCS (Websphere Commerce Server) and Java J2ee Technology:
Architecture & Design
• Drives the adoption and usage of Sapient (and/or client) Technology standards in delivery of their modules
• Independently drives the design of a module and uses the necessary artefacts, patterns and notations
• Works with Developer and Sr.Developers to create an approach and plan for design of the modules he/she is responsible for
• Provides inputs and directions to team members on the team for designing and creating design artefacts
• Participate in design reviews of other modules and provide insightful comments to improve the design quality and design conformance to standards

Development
• Establishes steps of doneness undertaken during Ear, maintenance and development phases of a project
• Monitors the adherence to development processes
• Depending on the size and complexity of the project, plays the role of a developer to write application code to meet expected quality standards
• Participates in technical walkthroughs/code reviews of other team member’s components.
• Works with members of his/her track, the Architect & QA team to come up with test plans for their modules

Planning, Tracking & Estimation
• Works with the Architect to define the boundaries of scope of the project
• Works with other Track leads or the Architect to create mid level and low level plans for the project
• Tracks the progress of his/her module/modules using standard tools
• Identifies & escalates issue that might delay the work.
• Report progress and issues to the Manager in a timely manner

Process Adherence
• Applies relevant methodology, processes, tools and technology standards depending on the project requirements
• Ensures process compliance.

Documentation
• Creates and maintains design documentation for the modules he/she owns
Client Interaction
• Interacts with the client (client senior developers and architects) to create technology specifications from business requirements for one or more of the modules within the project
• Works with and drives client developers who are part of the team working on a module of the project
• Raises and drives resolution for all technical design and implementation issues in the module with the client
• Works with clients at onsite locations and act as a liaison for a GDD team

Team Management
• Coaches a team of developers
• Helps resolve issues and dependencies within the team
• Clarifies and communicates track objectives and success criteria to the team members.
• Ensures key track roles and responsibilities are defined for the team
• Participates in, and assists with, company events such as hiring, training and internal initiatives.
• Actively shares knowledge and lessons learned from project experiences
• Communicates and disseminates company information and client requests to team

COMPETENCY PROFILE
J2EE - Application Servers, Java – ORM, Java - Spring Framework, Core Java, J2EE, SQL Development Languages, AJAX, Java - Web Presentation Frameworks, Java - Messaging Implementation, Java Web Services, Planning/ Execution & Tracking,
Scoping and Estimating, High Availability and Failover Applications, Logical Architecture Design, OOAD and UML, Package / Vendor Selection, Performance / Capacity Planning
• Industry Expertise required (in relevant industry) - 5 - 7 years
• Worked on IT projects (in technologies mentioned below), managed tracks or modules of 3 people or more, been part of lifecycle of a project and has been in a client facing role
• Lead the Business and the Technical Design for a module AND
• Participated in one or more implementation projects AND
• Participated in one or more AM projects
• Lead a module in implementation or application management

Technology Competencies - WCS
• Proficient-Excels in one or more technologies, including but not limited to
J2EE, .NET, XML, SOAP, JavaScript, Java, PL/SQL, C/C++, C#, Perl, TCL, COM/DCOM OR
• Proficient-Excels in one or more packages, including but not limited to Interwoven, Vignette, Oracle, SQLServer, Weblogic, iPlanet, WebSphere, TIBCO, MQSI, BizTalk, Vitria
• Proficient in UML
• Abstracts detail into larger (repeatable) patterns, familiarity with user-centered analysis and evaluation techniques
• Proficient in business and technical design of a module
• Should have worked on WebSphere Commerce project for at least 15-24 months
• Proficient-Excels in understanding of online e-commerce concepts (i.e. shop, browse, order, B2B/B2C etc.)
• Proficient-Excels in understanding of WCS Programming Model and WCS Architecture
• Should have worked (design and development) on at least 2 or more of the following WCS sub-systems: member, shopping-cart, catalog, order-fullfillment
• Understanding of WCS Integration with Taxware, Payment providers

Do let me know if you are interested to be a part of Sapient Family and also be a part of the finest WCS Project.
Send across your updated resume in word format to psingh28@sapeint.com