Senior Specialist: Business Integration

MultiLead Consulting Services; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting service in South Africa seeks an experienced integration specialist to enhance service delivery through technical integration analysis. The ideal candidate will leverage their expertise in integration design and IT capabilities to align with business needs, ensuring effective support and sustainability in software systems. Strong experience in building integrations in an ESB environment is essential, as well as a commitment to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years' experience in Integration/ESB environment, 3-4 years at junior specialist level.
• 15 years' experience in Integration/ESB with Senior Certificate for alternative qualification.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and make recommendations for improvements to specialist systems.
• Develop and implement software integration and design activities.
• Ensure proper project planning and execution.

Skills

Integration

Education

B.Tech: Computer Systems (NQF7)

Senior Certificate (NQF 4)

Job description

About the Position

To identify, develop and implement effective integration designs that address business needs, by performing technical integration analysis tasks through specialization in understanding the business usage of information technology (IT) and helping technology add value to the business whilst understanding the technical architectures and platforms, as well as the IT capabilities and which applications in an organization deliver various capabilities, in order to continuously enhance service delivery.

Job Purpose

To provide expertise, advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics, by ensuring sustainability of software, systems and technologies, enabling a holistic business solution that support and sustain the business capability with minimal business risk, integrate and align architectures within the Enterprise Architecture, in order to enable tactical translation and operational implementation.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

B.Tech: Computer Systems (NQF7) AND 8-10 years' experience in an Integration/ Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) environment, of which 3-4 years at junior specialist level.

Alternative

Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years' experience in an Integration/ Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) experience of which 3-4 years at junior specialist level.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
• Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice & system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
• Translate top down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure proper project planning and execution as well as overall change control.
• Provide support to projects by applying the required specialised skills in terms of infrastructure, architecture, data, design, services, processes, monitoring and patterns.
• Design, plan and implement all the software, integration, design and development activities that relate to the portfolio of business integration in conjunction with all relevant stakeholders.
• Introduce best practises and influence the divisions to change and adopt accordingly.
• Contribute to IT business planning with regards to interface applications.

Desired Skills:

• Integration

Desired Qualification Level:

• Diploma

About The Employer:

Government