General Electric Work Values

Daily Duties at General Electric:

-Established the multi-year technology architecture road map and obtained a buy-in from seven separate business and IT decision makers including CIO and VP of Operations -Defined the SOA roadmap, technology blueprint,service SLA guidelines, service identification and governance process -Developed the System/portfolio, Application and Solution architecture. This system handles 100,000+ vehicle orders per year, transactions worth 3billion dollars, processes 50,000 vehicle configurations per year and transmits order automatically to Toyota, Ford, GM and other Vehicle manufacturers -Reduced the complexity of the legacy system by using SOA, Event Driven, Grid based architectures and open source technologies -Provided estimates for the project using top down and bottom up estimating techniques -Introduced new concepts and technologies to the enterprise(ex. TC Server, Complex Event Processing/CEP/Esper) -Defined the release and iteration plan for the product using Agile methodology -Researched and evaluated different Web Service Frameworks(Spring WS, AXIS2 and Xfire) -Led and facilitated JAD sessions, conducted Iterative design and code reviews -Provided estimates for the project using top down and bottom up estimating techniques -Consulted other projects as a Subject Matter Expert on Application Architecture best practices J2ee/Spring and Performance tuning -Partnered with cross-functional teams to provide technology direction on Security Architecture/Identity Management to other products -Participated in enterprise, portfolio and project level governance activities. -Assessed the J2EE Deployment Architecture for GE and recommended alternatives deployment topologies to alleviate performance bottlenecks - As part of GE’s enterprise architecture team developed and reviewed the architectural model of enterprise applications -Provided an assessment of the current Cloud environment and its applicability to GE’s business. Did a proof of concept in force.com and Amazon EC2 cloud platforms -Evaluated and introduced new tools and open source api’s to speed up development and reduce total cost

What they like about General Electric:

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Tags

Java, J2EE, SOA, Architecture, ESB, Spring, Hibernate, Agile, Scrum, RUP, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Architecture, Business Process, Application Architecture, Websphere, Weblogic, Tomcat, Security, Identity Management, Design Patterns, EAI, Integration Architecture, Subversion, WebService, Rest, Soap, Grid, Data Grid, Caching, Messaging, Technical architect, Enterprise architect, application architect, integration architect, portal, Domain Driven Design, Roadmap, Strategy, jsp, servlet, platform, uml, Federated Security, Single Sign on(SSO)

Skills

Ecommerce Strategy and digital marketing channels optimization - SEO, SEM, email, affiliates - for high-profile accounts., Leadership , Ability to define the As-Is and To-Be architectures of systems/products, assess gaps and create associated migration plan, Ability to effectively communicate with business users, C- level executives, middle management, domain architects and developers, Skilled in strategizing, applying tactics and defining technology road maps for complex systems to realize business objectives, Experience working in different type of products/programs (i.e. system replacement, integration and consolidation, SOA programs, new B2B and B2C applications) from concept to production, Experience in architecting large and complex enterprise system with Batch, Web, SOA, Extreme Transaction Processing(XTP)/High Performance Computing(HPC), Resource Oriented Architecture(ROA) and Event Driven architectural styles, Extensive experience and have deep skills in system architecture, design, implementation, security architecture, Identity and access management, federated security, pattern based design, object oriented analysis and design, performance tuning , architectu, Team player with strong organizational, analytical and problem solving skills as well as ability to lead technical projects and technical teams, Twelve years of system architecture, design and development experience in the architecture, design and development, of complex, high-volume, high-performance distributed software systems in finance, retail and healthcare sectors

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