Integration Developer I at Shoprite Group of Companies

Purpose of the Job    

• To work with the Integration Team in Functional & Non-Functional requirements, System Design, Development, and configuration of integration services and components. As well as assisting in performing DevOps functions within BroadCom Layer7, IBM MQ, IBM Integration Broker, IBM WAS, and team utilities applications.

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Job Category    

• IT

Job Objectives    
1. Perform day-to-day troubleshooting & support of integration systems.

• To act as 1st line support for Web Service & Data Flows Integration
• To troubleshoot errors and investigate queries in the integration systems
• To manage & action assigned incidents and requests
• Capture & Review SOA governance information in a EA Repository
• Configure BroadCom Layer7

2. Development of integration requirements to support business and internal projects

• Develop SQL queries, triggers & stored procedures
• Develop scripts on various operating systems
• Develop Java/javascript applications and libraries to be used by integrating clients.
• Design unit tests, testing, and use of testing tools(JMeter, SOAPUI etc)
• Develop BroadCom Layer7 service policies and configurations
• Develop Message Flows e.g. for IBM Integration Bus
• Develop cloud solutions & applications i.e. AWS, AZURE, Google

3. Troubleshooting and Identifying root causes

• Work with network teams (internal and external) to troubleshoot and resolve firewall and connectivity issues.
• Work with the different system administration teams to resolve issues e.g. permissions, disk space, AD users, and AD user groups.
• Assist internal business units and third parties with Integration problem resolutions.
• Investigate queries related to data movement (on Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems)
• Investigate queries related to service access
• Troubleshoot services exposed through BroadCom Layer7
• Escalate problems with Commercial Systems to the System Support for that System
• Investigate problems by writing SQL queries
• Investigates cloud infrastructure and application-related issues

4. Configure integration data flows

• To configure data flows in the Integration Web Interface
• To set up user accounts and permissions for the Integration Web Interface

5. Collaborate with the Integration Support team to smoothly transition new flows and configurations into relevant environments for deployments

• To successfully configure and/or generate changes for the DEV, QA,PRE_PROD & PROD environments

6. Improvement of systems and processes

• Develop processes to improve productivity
• Solve recurring problems by improving solutions & automation

7. Transition basic day-to-day administration and support tasks

• To manage & action assigned Remedy incidents and requests
• Support clients and 3 rd party integrations

Qualifications    

• Matric / Grade 12
• IT-related tertiary qualification

Experience    

• Min 1 Year SQL competency writing queries and developing stored procedures
• Min 1 Year SOA (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML, ODATA, OAUTH, WADL, WSDL
• Min 1 Year Java EE
• Min 1 Year Web Development - javascript
• Min 1 Year Performed support function
• Min 1 Year Software Design Patterns
• Min 1 Year Software development (Java, C#/.NET, SDLC, etc.)

Knowledge and Skills    

• Software Development
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Production Systems Support(DevOps)
• Enterprise Integration
• System administration (Microsoft/Linux)
• Cloud Operations
• Database administration (MSSQL, MySql)