Integration Specialist

XPT Software; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software in Sydney is seeking an experienced Middleware and API Integration Architect to administer, configure, secure, and operate multiple middleware platforms, including Kong, to meet defined service level agreements.

You will lead design reviews, define API standards, govern CI/CD pipelines, automate repetitive tasks, and represent the team in gas and electricity industry forums to ensure interoperability and scalable, reliable integrations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing integration platforms and ensuring SLAs.
• Expertise with Kong API Gateway, Messaging middleware, and WebMethods suites.
• Experience configuring RESTful APIs and SOAP services across environments.
• Experience applying DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Review high level integration designs and provide technical leadership to project teams.
• Identify, assess and escalate risks; define alternative approaches per governance.
• Define, govern and approve API standards and processes for integration strategy.
• Represent the team in gas and electricity industry forums, ensuring interoperability with interfaces.

Skills

API integration

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Tools

Kong API Gateway

RabbitMQ

Web Methods

APIM

Job description

Role Summary

The role is responsible for administering, configuring, securing, and operating multiple middleware platforms, including Kong, to ensure critical business processes meet defined service level agreements.

Key Responsibilities

• Review high level integration solution designs and provide technical leadership to project teams, ensuring approved integration patterns and architectures are consistently applied throughout detailed design and implementation.
• Proactively identify, assess, and **escalate** technical and delivery risks, and define alternative technical or functional approaches where required, following established governance and approval processes.
• Define, govern, and approve API standards, frameworks, and processes, shaping the API strategy to align with Client broader corporate and technology strategy.
• Represent the team in gas and electricity industry forums, gathering feedback and ensuring external participants can effectively connect to and interoperate with Business‑to‑Business systems in accordance with interface specifications and architectural standards.
• Design and maintain dashboards and reports to track key operational metrics and business SLAs using enterprise application monitoring and observability tools.
• Identify repetitive operational and administrative tasks and develop a roadmap to automate processes, improving platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with enterprise and solution architecture teams to define and evolve integration standards, patterns, and best practices that meet current and future business needs.
• Support project teams in scaling and onboarding new integration environments, providing hands‑on assistance with setup, troubleshooting, and resolution of configuration issues to meet project timelines.

Position Requirements

• At least 7+ years of working experience in managing integration platforms including installation, configuration, patching, upgrading and working with vendor to resolve production incidents.
• Proven experience in managing middleware products in a Production active-passive or active-active configuration. This includes regular auditing of config files, backup and recovery, tuning of alerting framework as required and migrating applications across sites without loss of data to ensure KPIs are met.
• Demonstrate extensive experience in the configuration and operation of commercial Enterprise Integration Platforms, with strong expertise in Kong API Gateway, Managed File Transfers, messaging middleware and webMethods product suites.
• Apply DevOps principles and practices, implementation and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated build, test and deployment processes.
• Communicate effectively in both written and verbal contexts, enabling clear articulation of complex technical concepts and influencing outcomes with stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in operating Business‑to‑Business and Enterprise Application Integration solutions covering design, development and operational support (minimum of 7 years).
• Demonstrate practical experience integrating solutions with relational database platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL, supporting data access, persistence and optimisation.
• Experience managing the day-to-day operation, support, and continuous improvement of RESTful APIs and SOAP-based web services.
• Hands on experience using networking protocols like HTTPS, SMTP, LDAP and authentication protocols like OAuth, OIDC, JWT and TLS/SSL.
• Experience in system analysis, process design, technical documentation and ongoing production support activities.
• Proven experience responding to, coordinating, and resolving incidents to restore services within agreed SLAs.

Technical Skills

• Boomi (both in Cloud and hybrid)
• RabbitMQ
• Web Methods
• APIM (Deploy enterprise on prem capability)