Java Application Server Developer

Position: Java Application Server Developer
Location: Stockport, Cheshire
Salary: £ Competitive

CDL is a leading independent software house supplying systems to the insurance industry offering all major employer benefits along with excellent career progression prospects. They are currently looking for experienced and innovative Java developers to join a team of highly skilled software architects, developers, analysts and test technicians.

CDL embraces new technologies and uses agile methodology to create quality, industry leading solutions in support of their many prominent clients.

The Candidate:
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate excellent team and communication skills that will make him/her integrate quickly into this professional and passionate team where they will play a key part in meeting business challenges and delivering and supporting CDL’s high quality solutions.

Essential Skills and Experience:
•Java development experience within a commercial environment.
•Good grasp of OO principles.
•Software components development using Spring, EJB 3 and/or Messaging.
•Test Driven Development using JUnit.
•Mocking frameworks (e.g. Mockito).
•Database development using SQL with JDBC.

Desirable Skills and Experience:
Exposure to any or all of the following would be a definite advantage:
•Insurance knowledge.
•Agile process e.g. DSDM Atern, Scrum, XP and/or working on full development life cycle projects.
•Continuous Integration using Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Git and Gerrit.
•Web Development using Wicket Web Framework, HTML and JQuery.
•Web Services using JAX-WS, XML, JAXB, WSDL, XSLT and XPATH.
•Exposure to Oracle Databases and/or Hibernate.
•WebLogic, Tomcat.
•Eclipse IDE.
•Performance Tuning: Oracle SQL and/or Java.
•Unix/Linux experience.

Qualifications Required:
•Degree or HND in a relevant subject preferred or equivalent experience.
•Relevant specialist programming skills and knowledge gained in a commercial environment.

We can only accept applications from candidates who are entitled to live and work in the UK without restriction.

Please Note: Due to the nature of our business all successful candidates will be subject to Criminal Records and Credit Reference checks.

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