Applications Architect (System/Integration) - Senior

Services and Deliverables

• Provide integration architecture expertise & leadership throughout the organization
• Architect design changes and enhancement requirements for interface development for systems integration
• Develop technical specifications related to systems design
• Design & develop end-to-end systems architecture
• Iterative design and development of interfaces as required
• Guiding system analysts and developers
• Creating work estimates and planning
• Systems analysis & mapping

Skills – For the work described above, the following skills have been deemed necessary or desirable:

Must Have Skills/Experience

• Architecture experience for integration and middleware implementation programs within the context of the business (OSC) environment, requirements, and resources
• Experience with ensuring that appropriate business specific (OSC) information services protocols are taken into account
• Handling large implementations around integration, fluency in web services standards and technologies (XML, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, XSD, UDDI, etc.)
• Estimate work effort and provide development plan to the project manager
• Hands-on design and development experience on any of major integration product/technology
• Experience with IBM Integration Bus/WebSphere
• Experience with preparing enterprise integration roadmap, SOA reference architecture, implementation of SOA governance principles and concepts, the definition of integration standards and principles in all phases of implementation
• Design, develop, analyze, code, configure, test, debug, maintain and refine business applications to fit customer requirements for complex projects
• Recommend improvements to business processes as supported by application systems
• Convert technical specifications into code using proprietary and non-proprietary tools
• Contribute to technical strategy, policy, and procedure
• Support the development and coordination of system and integration test plans; partner with quality assurance testing teams to identify errors and confirm business specifications have been achieved
• Support the transfer of software from the test environment to the production environment
• Integrate software components and 3rd party programs
• Experience with maximizing the productivity of the project team by installing an effective development environment, establishing programming, design, and other technical standards, training team members, and providing advisory and troubleshooting support
• Experience in designing and developing an application in Java
• Experience and knowledge of data mapping, exception handling, and integration of sources in an enterprise environment
• Must have knowledge in designing and developing source-to-target mappings
• Must have knowledge of Spring Component and Spring Framework
• Experience in building back-end application code that interfaces with other systems, services and APIs/RESTful APIs
• Experience in build and integration tools
• Experience with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI, SOA, ESB) and n-tier client-server architectures
• Experience with complex XML Schema Document (XSD) design practices including hands-on experience creating complex types and messages structures

Desirable Skills

• Working knowledge and experience utilizing the following technologies:
  • IBM Integration Bus
  • IBM Infosphere Information Server Enterprise Edition
  • IBM Case Manager
  • IBM Master Data Manager, Reference Data Manager and Identity Insights
  • Cognos, Tableau, SPSS, I2, SQL Server, DB2
• Business experience in regulatory/securities activities and knowledge of the Securities Act and other related compliance legislation is an asset