Java Backend Consultant
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Expert Services
Company profile: We have created the world’s leading lean customer experience platform – its not just us that think that, Gartner does too. Backbase has been consistently placed in ‘Visionary’ quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Software and, in 2014, was recognized as the most visionary portal vendor.The Backbase Customer Experience Platform (CXP) has been designed to help organize, create, and manage deeply relevant customer experiences across all channels, on any device and combines the latest innovations in customer experience design (UX) with next generation technologies to deliver an unbeatable digital experience.The Backbase team is made up of more than 200 consultant, technology and usability professionals, with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Atlanta and Moscow. There’s plenty of more information about us as a company and our products on our website; please also view our “Working at Backbase” video which we have just published on YouTube.Check out the video hereIf you’d like to join us we’d love to hear from you. 
Description: The teamThe (Senior) Java Consultant is part of the Expert Services (ES) team. ES is a team of specialist with the right level of skills and experience to make sure that our product is implemented successfully at our customers. Additionally ES provides training and implementation support services to our customers and partners. You will report to the Operations Manager ES. Our consultants work with partners and customers to ensure our customers successfully achieve their goals. This will mean you will develop, teach, support and lead teams in delivering enterprise solutions.Additionally ES provides training and implementation support services to our customers and partners. You will report to the Operations Manager ES. The goalAs a hands-on java backend consultant you will be responsible for integrating our flagship portal products into the enterprise ICT environments of our international clients. During our pilot and implementation projects you will be part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team. You work closely with our clients, architects and frontend consultants to define the integration with the client’s back end systems, determine implementation details, and realize those implementations. You will also be responsible for integrating security layers, exposing relevant business data, configuring the Backbase portal, and when necessary develop custom extensions. In some cases Backbase uses implementation partners when doing full implementations of the product for customers. In your role and as member of Expert Services you are the expert back end developer responsible for the guidance and coaching of our partners’ back end developers and consultants.Most project work is done in the Backbase office; however, some project executions are done at the customer site. Therefore we offer the opportunity to work side by side with our customers worldwide and guide them to successful implementations with the Backbase product.
Requirements: We are looking for motivate candidates that show us:The ability to lead;Have good presentation skills;Experience in a consultancy role;Excellent communication skills in English;Willing to travel internationally.Technically were are looking for:A minimum of 5 years development experience within Java Web/Enterprise projects;Understanding Design patterns and N-Tiers architectures;Experience with Java EE, Maven;Experience with application servers such as Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere;Experience with Spring and other Java frameworks / open source libraries;Experience with Spring Security and SSO solutions;Experience with SOA and Web Services (REST/SOAP);Experience with database applications such as Oracle, MySql, DB2 as well as with SQL, JDBC and ORM tools;Experience with Web/Enterprise Content Management Systems;Experience providing sizing and scalability recommendations and solving connectivity and deployment issues;Experience deploying to application servers in enterprise environments;Experienced with using Agile development methodologies.​
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