At Arc, you'll work with a team of smart marketers and gain global marketing insights, as we share our capabilities across 37 offices in 31 countries. And talk about our marquis list of clients! We partner with Disney, Kellogg, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, Purina, Visa, Whirlpool, and the list goes on...We're also part of Paris-based Publicis Groupe, the world's fourth-largest marketing and communications company.



As a member of the Arc Worldwide team, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact on a wide array of marketing practice areas, share ideas with some of the best minds in the business, and meet creative and professional challenges. Are you ready?



The Software Engineer is responsible for design and development of applications, and for owning their applications through QA, Production Deploy and Application Maintenance phases. Responsibilities include implementation and completion of assigned development tasks, and ensuring quality deliverables throughout the application lifecycle. The SE's other responsibilities include project estimation and providing detailed documentation. In addition to development responsibilities, this individual performs basic maintenance tasks on the departments development environment. This includes patching of servers, hardware replacement, monitoring backups, provisioning and de-provisioning of user rights, and acting as liaison to the IT department. The SE position reports directly to a Software Engineering Manager.



Essential Job Functions



Technical Skills and Experience

1.Intermediate knowledge of server administration on both Windows and UNIX platforms. Should be experience in applying security patches, setting up and monitoring backups, user administration, and basic hardware maintenance.

2.1-3 years of Java/J2EE and/or Microsoft.NET software programming experience, specializing in web applications

3.Familiarity with Object-oriented design concepts, and with Design Patterns (particularly relating to J2EE/Java or Microsoft.NET/C#).

4.Familiarity with relational database design concepts for OLTP systems, with specific experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 or Oracle 9.0i/10g.

5. Intermediate knowledge and understanding of J2EE technologies and implementations.

6.Experience with J2EE Application Servers (JBoss, Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic)

7. Experience using STRUTS framework Knowledgeable with application frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate

8.Intermediate knowledge of web interface programming, including HTML, CSS, and basic graphic optimization and slicing.

9.Past involvement in software applications throughout the full development lifecycle.

10.Proficiency with XML and knowledgeable of associated technologies such as schemas, XSLT, transformers and parsers.

11.Familiar with application development and deployment strategies (CVS, VSS & other source code control applications, Ant, CruiseControl, NUnit, JUnit etc.)

12.Knowledge of Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies (Macromedia Flex, Laszlo) a plus but not required.



Planning/Analysis

-Implements architectures and high-level designs for new applications and application features as specified by senior resources

-Enhances and re-factors existing application frameworks to develop more comprehensive development tools, to minimize future application development effort, and to foster greater code reuse.

-Collaborates in the writing of thorough, intuitive documentation for application components, frameworks, processes etc.

-Presents accurate technical information, in written and oral form.



Execution

-Follows the Arc World Wide development standards and guidelines.

-Attends status meetings which may include all members of the project team, including project managers, user-centered design specialists, designers, QA analysts, systems architects, and hosting operations team to ensure all functional requirements of the assigned development task have been considered and can be implemented according to plan.

-Ensures that development possibilities and realities are clearly communicated to project team.

-Develops reusable, flexible, accurate, well-documented code for broad user base.

-Works with QA Analysts as necessary to resolve issues.

-Clearly documents code, testing results, and application changes in a timely fashion.

-Provides maintenance of their own personal development environments.



Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

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