Application Architect at Ebay

Primary Job Responsibilities
This individual is required to demonstrate Technical Architectural Leadership, playing a vital and strategic role in the design, operation, implementation, and maintenance of eBay's marketplace platform.
A 12 year history of technical preparedness for this role is required to provide guidance on the architecture of the world’s leading e-commerce web site serving a community of 200 millions users, accessing over 1 billion pages per day, and manipulating more than 2 Petabytes of data through applications totaling over 6 millions of lines of codes released to production every 2 weeks.

• Working closing with the Business Units, Systems Administrators, Network Engineers, Applications Developers, System Architects and Data Base Administrators. Determine system design, scalability characteristics, potential issues, and implementation costs of major business requirements.
• Interact with internal and external technical leaders to develop innovative solutions and implementation strategies that preserve the integrity, availability, stability, security, and scalability of eBay’s site.
• Review external technologies and products for their applicability to specific project requirements. Must be able to compare various solutions and select the one most appropriate for the project and company.
• Mentor team members on design and architecture guidelines and value to business.

Job Requirements

• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced work environment,
• Is customer and process oriented,
• Has excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, and is able to articulate business issues/concerns with staff, peers, superiors, and outside parties (e.g. vendors, partners).

• Very strong leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills, particularly as it relates to application and systems design.

Expertise breadth or depth in covering the following domains:

• Very strong OOA/OOD a must, Design Patterns, UML, O/R Mapping, Code Metrics
• Experience with Java and Java application servers required
• Experience in defining infrastructure frameworks or system layering and componentization
• SOA, Web services design especially on a large scale
• Experience with high volume Web systems or large transaction client-server systems with particular attention to security, scalability and high performance.
• Experience with HTTP/HTML, CSS, JSF, JSP, XML, SAX, Java Script

Expertise with the following technologies:

• Managing/Tuning Database servers; Database Design;
• Advanced Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM); VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS) or other High-availability service, especially in a SAN environment; design and operations of SAN environments
• High availability strategies
• TCP/IP and load balancing strategies
• Messaging and Queuing

Knowledge and experience using eBay's websites strongly preferred

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