Principal Consultant Liferay, Inc
Diamond Bar, CA

Job Description

What if there was a hybrid job that pushed you to learn cutting-edge technologies, gave you opportunities to provide innovative solutions to clients like Cisco, Sesame Street, AutoZone, and Volkswagen, and equipped you to train the growing population of Liferay users? Enter stage left our Consultant position. We're looking for people who love open source and want to grow with a company that's bursting at the seams. Apply now and tell us why you'd like to join the Liferay family.

Major Objectives:

* Develop new features, customizations and enhancements to the core product during a client engagement
* Work with engagement manager and/or clients to scope work, produce estimates and help define deliverables
* As project technical lead, help manage workload and task assignment with project manager to project resources
* Will be assigned direct reports that need career guidance
* Will be asked to mentor other consultants who are not as experienced
* Will be asked to help establish operational processes of the department
* Provide technical leadership and guidance in the installation, configuration, and implementation of Liferay's Java-based technologies
* Work directly with the customer to clarify requirements, identify risks with an accompanying mitigation strategy and obtain feedback on deliverables
* Demonstrate a deep knowledge of the platform and recommend new features and modifications drawing on experience with past clients
* Deliver projects quickly, cost-effectively, and with the highest quality
* Conduct engaging Liferay trainings for key customers
* Manage a team of mid-level Consultant - Software Engineers

Minimum Required Qualifications:

* Experience with Enterprise Java development
* Technical Bachelor's degree plus 5 years work experience or Master's degree plus 2 years work experience



Preferred Qualifications:

* 5 years of experience with web based technologies (HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript)
* Experience working within an agile software development lifecycle with testing, continuous integration and deployment
* 4 years of experience working in deeply technical projects on client sites
* Excellent programming and analytical skills and a solid foundation in Java and Java Servlets
* 3 years with Java and JEE
* Experience with mentoring others
* Experience with the full project lifecycle, including business requirements gathering, technical specifications, development, testing, and deployment
* Experience with multiple databases, and application servers including Tomcat and at least others such as JBoss, WebLogic or WebSphere
* Excellent prioritization, organization, and time management skills and ability to work with minimal supervision
* Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate complex business solution concepts clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences
* Ability to consistently deliver projects and customer value
* Zeal for learning + love of open source
* 3-5 years of experience with relational databases
* Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
* Experience with tuning JVMs and application servers a plus
* Experience with portal development for Liferay, WebLogic or WebSphere a plus
* Ability to travel 30-50% of the time to customer sites