DESCRIPTION The qualified candidate will perform engineering, deployment and support activities on various SOA Technologies listed below. This consultant will be required to work in a team environment and must possess excellent communication skills as well as the ability to work in a collaborative environment with ease. Knowledge in the installation, configuration, maintenance and governance of Middleware/SOA technologies listed below is required, and this consultant must be able to problem solve in a triage environment and perform root cause analysis using an analytical method. Qualifications: Strong communication skills ? Ability to work with application developers, systems engineers and partners Strong working knowledge (Minimum 2 to 3 Years) of at least one product in each of the following technology areas: UDDI Registry & Repository (HP Systinet) Federated SOA Governance Platform (HP Systinet) Diagnostics (HP Diagnostics) SOA Manager (HP) SOA Concepts (Exposure to Webservices) J2EE skills (EJB, Hibernate, Spring and JMS) XML Message Processing & Transformation Databases (Oracle) Application Servers (WebLogic and JBOSS) Platforms: PA-Risc/AMD64, Unix (HP-UX) and/or Linux (SuSe/RedHat) Strong, hands-on experience with Web Services Technologies and Standards (specifically syntactical expertise SOAP, WSDL 1.1, WSDL 2.0, XML Schemas) Strong knowledge of Scripting using Korn Shell Scripts, Perl, etc. Desired Skills ? Tibco Active Matrix, SOA Appliance Experience (IBM Data Power , VORDEL, Sonoa), WebSphere Message Broker, MQ Series, Tibco EMS or any JMS provider, BEA Tuxedo, JBOSS AS, Runway, DB2 Connect, Core Technologies (CTC) and Hardware Clustering (Veritas Clustering or MC/Service Guard) Support and administration background desired, including experience using performance tuning and optimization techniques SKILLS UDDI Registry & Repository (HP Systinet), Federated SOA Governance Platform (HP Systinet), Diagnostics (HP Diagnostics), SOA Manager (HP) , SOA Concepts (Exposure to Webservices), J2EE (EJB, Hibernate, Spring and JMS), XML, Web Services Technologies and Standards, Oracle, WebLogic, JBOSS, PA-Risc/AMD64, Unix (HP-UX) and/or Linux (SuSe/RedHat), Scripting Synectics offers competitive salaries and a full suite of benefits. EOE. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here