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At OCLC, we believe you'll do the best work of your life when you're living the best life possible.

We work hard to build the technology that connects thousands of today's libraries. But we also work hard to make a job at OCLC a meaningful part of a balanced life- not a substitute for one.

Technology with a Purpose. OCLC supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. OCLC provides shared technology services, original research and community programs that help libraries meet the ever-evolving needs of their users, institutions, and communities. With office locations around the globe, OCLC employees are dedicated to offering premier services and software to help libraries.

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Discover. Innovative. Collaborate. Inform. A few words we use to describe a career at OCLC.

Technology with a Purpose. OCLC supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. OCLC provides shared technology services, original research and community programs that help libraries meet the ever-evolving needs of their users, institutions and communities. With office locations around the globe, OCLC employees are dedicated to offering premier services and software to help libraries cut costs while keeping pace with the demands of our information-driven society.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team!

Responsibilities

• Uses industry standard programming techniques to translate requirements and designs into code.
• Analyze and solve problems in existing systems.
• Design, code and test multiple modules of a system in a timely manner.
• Participates in unit, system and acceptance testing by designing tests, building test data, test execution and evaluation. Along with recommending/making improvements/fixes to the tested system.
• Assists in developing and interpreting requirements.
• Follows all OCLC ISO-9000 procedures and the SDLC, as they pertain to their work unit, and continually seeks improvements to development procedures.
• Leads the implementation of all relevant ISO and NISO standards within OCLC projects.
• Participates in major architectural reviews and plans.
• Participates in the analysis and implementation of 3rd party solutions for OCLC applications with the ability to understand the impact and analyze the risk.
• Plans and participates in load, capacity, and performance analysis and/or testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline required
• 5 years of software development, five years of JAVA programming required
• Experience with the following technologies is a must -- JAVA, Object Oriented Design (and UML notation and patterns), SOA based systems, Hessian, Servlets, Spring-loC, MVC (Struts or Spring), JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, FreeMarker (or JSP or similar), AspectJ
• Experience with Linux (or any UNIX for that matter) and some with Windows would be required
• Experience with MySQL, Oracle is desired.
• Familiarity with unit testing, integration testing and performance/stress testing
• Excellent communication skills is a must
• Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science related discipline required and skills usually represented by 3-6 years of software development or project management experience
• Ability to implement industry standard programming techniques by
  • Mastering advanced fundamental software development concepts, practices, and procedures, and having the ability to analyze and solve problems in existing systems.
• Must have the ability to concentrate on a strictly technical focus, project management or a combination of the two depending on interests and project load of the work unit.
• Technical Focus -
  • Expert in at least one discipline (UI, telecom, database, performance, etc.) on a single product or research project.
  • Has successfully implemented multiple major areas of functionality.