Syniverse is the world’s most connected company. Whether we’re developing the technology that enables intelligent cars to safely react to traffic changes or freeing travelers to explore by keeping their devices online wherever they go, we believe in leading the world forward. Which is why we work with some of the world’s most recognized brands. Eight of the top 10 banks. Four of the top 5 global technology companies. Over 900 communications providers. And how we’re able to provide our incredible talent with an innovative culture and great benefits.

Who We're Looking For

An Advisory Systems Engineer has the responsibilities to develop new applications and perform lifecycle support for existing applications. The engineer must possess excellent knowledge of the overall application environment and the tools that support products and services. The engineer must also provide leadership in team meetings and lead application development teams from the concept stage through final implementation. In addition, the engineer must be completely accountable for all tasks assigned to the engineer individually or to the team / project that the engineer is leading. Finally, the engineer is required to adhere to all of the company’s software development procedures and processes while fulfilling the leadership role. Assist in the requirements phase for projects; apply current telecommunications knowledge and research current standards documents to keep up with the continuing changes in the industry.

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Some of What You'll Do

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create high-level design documents from requirements utilizing Object Oriented or Structured Methods that contain such items as use cases, flow diagrams, structure definitions and architecture diagrams.
• Create detailed design documents from high-level design documents utilizing Object Oriented or Structured Methods that contain items such as low-leveling state machine diagrams, common procedural definitions, and database design elements.
• Code an application from detailed design specifications.
• Integration testing across interfacing functional groups that may be involved.
• Document thorough release notes detailing the implementation process according to company procedures. Present the implementation plan in formal release planning walk-throughs.
• Assist operations with the actual implementation of an application.
• Perform post-implementation monitoring and testing to ensure the release is functioning as expected.
• Lead project teams through the entire development process. Assist engineers assigned to the project by providing technical guidance through the development phases of the project.
• Review design documents, code and test results to ensure accuracy and completeness and adherence to the requirements.
• Work with operations to identify, implement and refine proactive application and system monitoring techniques to enable the company to provide the highest quality of service possible.
• Research and recommend new technology, methodologies to help increase overall efficiencies.

Leadership

• Learning our existing applications and be the expert; “GO TO” resource for all aspects of the internal/external assigned subsystems.
• Capable of leading an application enhancement or project from requirements through implementation working with a team of engineers.
• Work closely with manager to create project plans for medium to large-scale efforts and host weekly meetings to track progress.
• Work with Product Managers and Business Development personnel on new initiatives leveraging telecommunications expertise.
• Capable of problem solving
• Capable of keeping a group on task to complete projects in a timely manner.
• Capable to stand alone in meetings and represent group with internal/external customers.
• Provide guidance to peers on appropriate technical methodologies and implementations.

Internal Support

• Create a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) of hours for projects.
• Create a Level of Effort (LOE) of hours for projects.
• Use Clarity to enter hours worked every week.
• Use the test tool to emulate transaction entities.
• Use our configuration management tool (Subversion).
• Use our ticketing tool for recording, tracking, analyzing and resolving software defects.

Job Requirements:

Knowledge Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or IT Related
• 10+ Years of J2EE and Core Java development.
• Expert knowledge
• Development environment – OS, editor, utilities, database
• Production runtime environment
• Object Oriented and Structured development methodologies
• Ownership/Accountability for tasks/projects.
• Work well within a team environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Independent work habits.
• Proven ability to deliver quality software on time
• Act with a sense of urgency
• Positive attitude
• Maintain composure in a stressful environment
• Encourage and promote a healthy team environment
• Support Project Management Process:
• Project time reporting.
• Estimate/Project risk analysis.
• Identification of tasks and associated hours.
• Progress tracking for projects/tasks
• Knowledge of J2EE Application Servers, WebLogic is preferred.
• Knowledge of Hibernate is preferred.
• Knowledge of Linux administration is a plus.
• Knowledge about Virtual Machines, especially VMware, is a plus.

Experience Requirements

• Able to analyze, design and develop pluggable code and to understand the existing server framework to work on enhancements.
• Solid Agile development experience in developing J2EE Applications using open source and commercial software.
• Extensive work with apache, Jboss, Spring frameworks.
• Work with multithreading, JDBC, AOP, messaging infrastructure and should be willing to adapt to new technologies.
• Worked with a RDBMS to write queries, stored procedures and packages and should know how to interact with different DataSources. Hands-on experience with Oracle is preferred.
• Linux/Unix experience in deploying and supporting Java code.
• Understanding of client code interactions with the server via different protocols like JMS, JMX, HTTP, socket and other communication protocols.
• Experience with build tools like Maven, source code control tools like SVN is needed.
• Experience with Web Services/REST is a plus.
• Work experience with C/C++ is a plus.

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Why You Should Join Us

Join us as we write a new chapter, guided by world-class leadership. Come be a part of an exciting and growing organization where we offer a competitive total compensation, flexible/remote work and with a leadership team committed to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and transparent organizational culture.

At Syniverse connectedness is at the core of our business. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion among our employees is crucial to our success as a global company as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people who want to help us connect the world.

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