Enterprise Applications Architect

Apria Healthcare is the nation’s leading provider of integrated home healthcare products and clinical services, with 500+ branch locations and over 10,000 employees in all 50 states. A rapidly-expanding $1.5 billion organization, Apria includes information technology as an integral component of our business strategy. We are seeking an IT professional for this exceptional opportunity at our Corporate Headquarters in LAKE FOREST, CA.

Selected candidate will utilize skills across a broad spectrum of applications architectures to design and implement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) across an enterprise; define system and application architecture; develop, recommend and execute strategic plans by mapping IT capabilities to business needs; assist in developing policies, guidelines, standards and procedures; and document relationships between business rules and IT solutions.

Submit your resume with salary history to: Apria Healthcare, Attn: Senior Staffing Specialist, 26220 Enterprise Court, Lake Forest, CA 92630-8400. E-mail: [Click here for email]. FAX: (949) 639-6258. Visit our website at: www.Apria.com. EOE m/f/d/v.
REQUIREMENTS
Requirements include 8+ years experience in multi-tier applications and data architecture disciplines; strong knowledge, demonstrated through project experience, of architectural description techniques; fluency in SOA and web services standards, technologies and tools (XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) and working knowledge of second generation and emerging standards (WS-*, BPEL4WS); and experience in heterogeneous distributed applications architectures across multiple operating systems, languages and middleware technologies. Programming experience must include Java, ETL tools (Informatica, Ascential); SQL; J2EE, EJB, JSP/JSF, JDBS, JMS, XML, JNDI, HTML, DHTML and AJAX; Web Services; and experience using industry standard UML modeling tools. Preferred skills include ERP functional or technical interface experience (IDoc, RFC, BAPI); messaging architectures (EAI, JMS, BizTalk, SAP XI, Websphere MQ); experience with rules engine commercial products (ILOG JRules, Blaze, ADvisor); and excellent communication, presentation and reasoning skills, with the ability to work well in a team oriented, collaborative environment.