The Center of Open Middleware (COM) is a technology center created in October 2011 by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Banco de Santander, Isban, and Produban with the goal of becoming the incubator of an open ecosystem of middleware. The selected candidate will develop his/her work in this center in the context of the ALM iStack project, currently in its second year.

Work to be performed

The goals of the work to be performed are:

1. To develop open middleware for application integration.
2. To develop application integration demonstrators in the ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) domain.

Required profile

J2SE developer with experience in design and development of applications base don SOA and EAI.
Proficiency is required in the development of service-oriented applications using REST and the related specifications (WADL). The candidate should have knowledge in XML technologies (XML Schema, XSLT, XQuery, XPath), web service technologies both basic (WSDL 1.1, SOAP 1.1) and advanced (WS-I, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging, MTOM, XOP, WS-BPEL 2.0), and messaging (JMS). Additionally, expertise in semantic and Linked Data technologies will be relevant (RDF, RDF Schema, SPARQL).

From the development viewpoint, the candidate must have expertise in the development of web services with JAX-RS 1.1 and knowledge of other Java EE 6 technologies such as Java Servlet 3.0, Java Persistence 2.0 and Java Transaction API (JTA) 1.1. Technical knowledge in the following open source frameworks will be relevant (in the stated order):

• Apache CXF (REST web services)
• Apache TomEE (Java EE Web Profile container)
• SQL, MySQL, Hibernate, OpenJPA (Persistence via JPA 2.0)
• Sesame, Jean (RDF, RDF Schema and SPARQL)
• Message-oriented middleware (Active MQ)

Knowledge about Application Lifecycle Management will be valued, both in the theoretical and practical levels, and using open source tools such as Bugzilla, TestLink, Redmine, SVN, and GIT.

High proficiency in both written and spoken English is required.

Furthermore, the candidate is expected to be able to work collaboratively, to be proactive and flexible, and to have good communication skills in order to work as part of a multinational and multidisciplinary team.

Offer

The candidate will be part of a working group of the COM, as a member of the ALM iStack project team, collaborating with members of Isban and of the Ontology Engineering Group.

The contract will have an initial duration of one year, with a potential extension.

The income will depend on the candidate expertise; the minimum yearly gross income will be 32.000€.

Contact

Send cover letter and CV before January 10th to the email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , specifying as reference “Software Engineer for Application Integration in the ALM Domain”.

Candidates will be interviewed during the week from January 13th to 17th 2014. The commencement date of the contract will be February 1st 2014.