Integration Developer

FirstRand Bank India; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

RMB in Johannesburg is seeking an experienced Integration Engineer to design and develop data and system integration solutions across all business units. The focus will be on the Tibco Platform stack (EMS, BusinessWorks and ActiveSpaces) and adherence to the bank’s integration standards.

Responsibilities include delivering technical solutions, reviewing designs for architecture conformance, planning data conversions, and supporting production issues.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years Integration experience across multiple Integration platforms and technology landscapes.
• 2 years server-side development experience.
• Technology related Bachelor’s degree.
• Demonstrate a clear and thorough understanding of Enterprise Integration Architecture patterns and best practices.
• Experience in EDI, ETL, batch architecture and frameworks.
• Knowledge of Tibco BusinessWorks and Middleware concepts.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Understand integration requirements underpinning application requirements.
• Deliver technical solutions to business requirements within timelines and guidelines.
• Review detailed integration designs for adherence to architecture.
• Plan and execute data conversion activities.
• Provide project progress reporting to team leader and management.
• Manage integration risk and project deliverables.
• Prepare architecture and design documents for review by architects and forum.
• Automate regression test packs for integration components.
• Provide production development support on a roster basis.
• Identify and solve production issues when required.

Skills

Enterprise Integration Architecture

Synchronous/Asynchronous messaging

Message Queuing

Distributed transactions

UML modelling

Communication skills

Leadership

Time management

Education

Technology related Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Tibco BusinessWorks

SQL Server

Oracle

XML/XSD/JSON

Git

Maven

SoapUI

Job description

Job Description

This role will involve designing and developing data and system integration solutions across all business units within RMB.

Solutions will largely be based on the Tibco Platform product stack within RMB, which include EMS, BusinessWorks and ActiveSpaces, and using Integration standards and methodologies as defined by the bank’s Enterprise Integration Architecture Forum.

Responsibilities include:

• Understanding integration requirements underpinning application requirements.
• Deliver technical solutions to business requirements, within the provided timelines, frameworks and guidelines.
• Review detailed integration functional design to ensure that they conform to “as-designed integration architecture”.
• Planning and executing data conversion activities (e.g., test data).
• Project progress reporting to team leader and management.
• Managing Integration risk and project deliverables.
• Prepare Integration architecture and design documents for review by the Project / Technical Architect and the bank’s Enterprise Integration Architecture Forum.
• Automation of regression test packs for Integration components, in line with agreed testing frameworks and standards.
• Provide production development support on a roster basis.
• Identify and solve production issues when required.

Essential Experience and Qualifications

• At least 3 years Integration experience across multiple Integration platforms and technology landscapes.
• 2 years server-side development experience.
• Technology related Bachelor’s degree.
• Able to work independently.
• Demonstrate a clear and thorough understanding of Enterprise Integration Architecture patterns and best practices. These include: Synchronous/Asynchronous messaging, Message queuing, guaranteed messaging, message correlation and sequencing, distributed transactions, etc.
• Data Integration: Understanding of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Extract Transform Load (ETL), batch architecture and frameworks.
• Middleware Knowledge: Understanding of Message Oriented Middleware (for example Tibco BusinessWorks).
• UML modelling.
• Working Operating System knowledge: Windows & Linux.
• Strong relational database experience (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle).
• An understanding of highly available, high performance, distributed architectures.
• A good understanding of Enterprise Data Modelling (Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, etc.). Prior experience with test automation.

Experience in the following is essential:

• Enterprise Information Integration
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Service Oriented Architecture: Web Services and related Web Service Standards (WS-Transaction, WS-Security etc.), WSDL, SOAP, REST, Enterprise Service,Buses, Business Process Engines (BPEL), Business Rules, Service Registries and Repositories.
• Event Driven Architectures.
• Microservices Architectures (MSA).
• XML, XSLT, XPath, XSD (and related technologies), JSON.
• Test tools: SOATest, SoapUI, etc..
• Multi-threaded programming.
• Database design (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase)
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills and the ability to lead and influence development within the team
• An understanding of key success factors in projects and IT environments
• Good time management skills
• Source control, build and deployment tools (GIT, TeamCity, Maven, Ant, etc.)
• Practical knowledge of AI.

Experience in the following is desired:

• Stored Procedures, Database Triggers, Database optimisation.
• Master Data Management.
• Data Warehousing.
• Federated Database Systems.
• Data Governance Principles.
• Understanding of Financial Markets.
• Event streaming platforms & technologies

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