Job Opportunity - SW Architect - Ingenuity Systems, Redwood City

Interested parties please respond to: tofoi@mooreresources.com 

Tofoi Yandall-Moore
Moore Resources 
408-266-2962 phone
408-266-6986 fax


Software Architect - Ingenuity Systems
As a senior member of the Software Development team, you will be responsible for the architecture of Ingenuity development platform (used for developing enterprise knowledge management applications) and high-availability, high-volume, web-based scientific applications. With a well-designed architecture at the foundation, our agile development environment is highly collaborative and fast-paced with numerous iterative cycles. You will join a passionate and talented team committed to developing innovative solutions to enable scientists to model, analyze and understand complex biological systems foundational to human health and disease.




This challenging position will require a self-starter who can effectively work on multiple projects simultaneously, meet aggressive deadlines, and thrives in a dynamic environment. You will work closely with software engineers, usability engineers, biologists, quality assurance engineers, marketers, and product managers. Our Knowledge-Base is one of the largest in the world.




Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  a.. Architect, design, and implement the Ingenuity development (knowledge) platform and distributed web applications using J2EE, Spring Framework, XML, Web Services, JMS, RMI, Servlets, JSP, iBatis, and Hibernate

  b.. Architect, design, and implement Knowledge-Base persistence, Knowledge-Base server crash recovery, integration with external databases and other data sources, Knowledge-Base version management, logging and querying of Knowledge-Base concepts and edits, resolving concept references across Component Knowledge-Bases, etc.

  c.. Architect, design, and implement easy-to-use, high-performance, high-volume, high-quality hosted and enterprise web-applications

  d.. Architect, design, and implement development platform and complex applications with limited or no direct supervision

  e.. Gather complex business requirements and define architecture goals

  f.. Research for new ideas, new technologies and new methodologies to continuously improve development velocity

Education, Skills & Experience Required

  a.. 7+ years experience in OO analysis, design, and implementation

  b.. 5+ years experience as Software Architect for consumer-facing high-volume sites hosting complex applications

  c.. Familiarity with two or more of these: Frame-based systems, Ontologies, Knowledge-Representation, Semantic-Web, Expert Systems / Rule-based Systems, RDF, LISP, Prolog

  d.. 5+ years experience architecting and implementing n-tier, distributed, enterprise applications

  e.. Extensive experience with J2EE framework and technologies

  f.. Strong analytical skills and attention to detail

  g.. 5+ years experience in industry-standard software development methodologies, e.g. use case-driven and test-driven iterative software
  development methodologies (RUP, XP)

  h.. 5+ years experience in debugging, code-reviewing, code-refactoring, performance tuning

  i.. Master of Science in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent

  j.. Excellent writing and communication skills, with a particular emphasis on the ability to communicate to non-technical personnel

  k.. Expertise in database design and programming

  l.. Flexible and works well as part of a fast-paced interdisciplinary product development team