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The client group in Java SE-land is looking for someone smart enough to automate themselves out of a good job — and into an even better one.

Some Background

Currently, whenever a client team (Swing, 2D, AWT, etc.) needs to integrate its changes into the main Java SE workspace, the team's integrator does the job. The integrator is just an engineer on the team — generally someone without any special skills pertaining to build automation and process improvement. I don't know about the other client teams, but on the Swing team the integration job traditionally is rotated through every engineer on the team (including leads), with each engineer having a 6-month stint as integrator. The Swing integrator is currently moi*.

* "Moi" means "me", as my 4-year-old French-American niece says it. Actually, she usually says "pas moi" ("not me"). For example: "Who hid Daddy's wallet?" "Pas moi."

The Position

The client group has opened a position for a person to do all the integrations for all the client teams. We're looking for someone who's smart, skilled, and enterprising enough to improve the current build procedures. Our hope is that the integrator will automate the process so much that they'll be able to transition to doing something else they're interested in, such as client-related development. In the end, we'd have a better, more reliable build process, plus we'd gain many engineer hours that were formerly spent on integrations.

If you look at the page for req # 543803, you can see that the experience level for the job is wide open. What we care about are the candidates' skills* — their ability to perform what the job page calls essential functions — and their capacity to contribute in other ways once integrations no longer take up all their time.

* Who has these skills? Pas moi.

Apply!

If you have what it takes to do this job, please submit your resume. Good luck!