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We are always interested in talking to talented candidates. If you would like to pursue a challenging career with a growing company, please submit your resume for consideration.

Current Openings

• Principal Consultant
• Technical Consultant/Java Portal Developer
• Senior Technical Consultant
• Technical Consultant

• Principal Consultant

  • Responsibilities:

    • Lead Summa strategy engagements that drive the conception, architecture, planning and cost justification of new business applications
    • Lead and assist in the development and launch of new and existing practices and service offerings
    • Lead pre-sales solution strategy while collaborating with Summa sales and consulting staff
    • Lead large-scale projects through all phases of discovery, design, development and deployment
    • Apply broad application and system architecture and design capabilities over diverse technologies to implement secure, robust, transactional and service oriented architectures
    • Drive Summa and customers to implement industry and Summa best practices for the architecture, planning, design and implementation of enterprise applications
    • Quickly learn and apply new technologies
    • Recognize potential opportunities for new business models

  • Qualifications:

    • 15 + years of experience leading large, complex projects
    • Experience in leading application development teams
    • Experience in key industries to Summa, such as Financial Services and Manufacturing, with aligning technology solutions to customer business drivers
    • Work experience on projects with one or more of the following technologies:
      • SOA
      • BPM
      • Java EE
      • .NET
      • Portals
      • Content Management
    • Ability to operate in a multi-function role often consisting of elements of:
      • System Architect
      • Project Manager
      • Business Analyst
      • Facilitator
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills
    • Ability to assist with the marketing of Summa practices and offerings:
      • Develop and deliver presentations at Summa, partner and customer seminars and events
      • Develop white papers and other content for Summa practice areas
    • Experience in performing ROI and TCO financial analysis for business value justifications
    • Understanding of the full application lifecycle from inception through maintenance
    • Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly
    • Diverse work experience implementing or integrating with packaged application and legacy technologies is a plus
    • Travel flexibility and consulting experience a plus, but not required

• Technical Consultant/Java Portal Developer

  We are currently looking for a Technical Consultant with a proficiency in Java based portal development. We are looking for solid Java development skills, and a familiarity with JSR168. Work experience with the IBM WebSphere Suite and WebLogic experience is needed as well.

  • Other responsibilities will be to:

    • Apply advanced programming techniques to develop robust, medium-to-large applications
    • Work independently within the customer's environment
    • Demonstrate the ability to quickly and routinely solve complex problems independently
    • Understanding of the full application lifecycle from inception through maintenance

  • Qualifications:

    • 3+ years of experience in application development involving object oriented or J2EE technologies (JSP, EJB, Servlets, XML)
    • Work experience with one or more of the following:
      • J2EE
      • .NET
      • Web Portals
      • SOA
      • BPM
      • Enterprise Application Integration/Message Oriented Applications
      • Web content management
    • Work experience with relational databases and web application servers
    • Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly (recent examples include Hibernate, Spring, Ajax and AOP)
    • Willingness to learn fast with a "roll-up-the-sleeves" and "get the job done" attitude
    • Work well in a team environment
    • Capable of taking on the role of technical lead for a small team
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills
    • Travel flexibility and consulting experience a plus, but not required

• Senior Technical Consultant

  • Responsibilities:

    • Apply broad application and system architecture and design capabilities over many technologies to implement secure, robust, transactional and service oriented architectures
    • Understanding of the full application lifecycle from inception through maintenance
    • Communicate effectively with clients and interact with client's Senior Management Team
    • Work independently within the customer's environment
    • Understand and apply design and modeling concepts at the system level
    • Act as a technical lead for a team developing system-related components
    • Successfully mentor or advise other Summa consultants

  • Qualifications:

    • 7+ years of experience architecting and designing distributed middleware systems (Background as a technical lead preferred)
    • Work experience with one or more of the following:
      • J2EE
      • .NET
      • Web Portals
      • SOA
      • BPM
      • Enterprise Application Integration/Message Oriented Applications
      • Web content management
    • Work experience with IBM WebSphere Suite is a plus
    • Work experience with relational databases and web application servers
    • Demonstated ability to quickly and routinely solve complex problems independently
    • Ability to architect and design a system when presented with a business problem
    • Learn and apply new technologies quickly (recent examples include Hibernate, Spring, Ajax and AOP)
    • Work experience with mainframe, legacy and/or packaged application integration is a plus
    • Diverse work experience implementing legacy technologies is a plus
    • Willingness to learn fast with a "roll-up-the-sleeves" and "get the job done" attitude
    • Work well in a team environment
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills
    • Travel flexibility and consulting experience a plus, but not required
    • Successfully mentor or advise other Summa consultants

• Technical Consultant

  • Responsibilities:

    • Apply advanced programming techniques to develop robust, medium-to-large applications
    • Work independently within the customer's environment
    • Demonstrate the ability to quickly and routinely solve complex problems independently
    • Understanding of the full application lifecycle from inception through maintenance

  • Qualifications:

    • 3+ years of experience in application development involving object oriented or J2EE technologies (JSP, EJB, Servlets, XML)
    • Work experience with one or more of the following:
      • J2EE
      • .NET
      • Web Portals
      • SOA
      • BPM
      • Enterprise Application Integration/Message Oriented Applications
      • Web content management
    • Work experience with IBM WebSphere Suite is a plus
    • Work experience with relational databases and web application servers
    • Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly (recent examples include Hibernate, Spring, Ajax and AOP)
    • Willingness to learn fast with a "roll-up-the-sleeves" and "get the job done" attitude
    • Work well in a team environment
    • Capable of taking on the role of technical lead for a small team
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills
    • Travel flexibility and consulting experience a plus, but not required