
Senior WebSphere Developer
Latitude Inc
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $55 - $60 per hour
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
HibernateJ2EEJavaJavaScriptjQueryOracleSpringSQL
About the role
- Research, design, and document strategies for migrating legacy portlets and applications to modern frameworks (e.g., MyFaces, Spring MVC, or updated Struts versions) while preserving functionality.
- Assess current implementations of frameworks such as JSF, Struts, or similar MVC architectures to identify upgrade and migration needs.
- Develop proof-of-concept solutions for framework migrations, validating performance, stability, and compatibility.
- Review and analyze existing portal themes, skins, and user interface components.
- Design, develop, and test new portal themes and skins using modern web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript).
- Integrate migrated applications with new themes and skins to ensure a consistent user experience.
- Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot applications on enterprise portal platforms and application servers (such as WebSphere, JBoss, or Tomcat).
- Provide documentation and knowledge transfer for ongoing maintenance and support.
Requirements
- 8-10 years of experience in enterprise software development
- Strong technical design, development, programming, and problem-solving skills
- Proven experience as a Portal Developer with a focus on Portlets, Themes and Skins
- Experience designing and developing web applications using JSF, MyFaces, and Struts
- Experience designing and developing web applications using HCL Portal Server 9.5/ IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.x
- Experience in Web applications migration of Struts, JSF, and Portlets to the latest version
- Working knowledge of WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Content Management (WCM), and Portlets JSR168 & JSR286
- Excellent knowledge of Hibernate and Spring Framework
- Knowledge of Java and J2EE development using IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere (RAD)
- Excellent knowledge of SQL, PLSQL 7
- Proficiency in JavaScript; experience with JavaScript frameworks Dojo and JQuery
- Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, Ajax experience, including developing or working with services (RESTful or otherwise)
- SQL development experience (exposure to Oracle database development a plus)
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with peers, and management
- Strong commitment to high quality work and timely deliverables
- US Citizenship, ability to get US Public Trust Clearance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
JavaJ2EEJSFMyFacesStrutsHibernateSpring FrameworkSQLPLSQLJavaScript
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcommitment to qualitytimely deliverables