Integration Specialist Team Lead at Proagrica

Integration Engineer

The candidate’s primary responsibilities will be to manage and lead a team of integration specialists. The candidate will perform expert technical work on integration and development projects. The candidate will be responsible for designing and developing new integration solutions or making enhancements to existing solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage team of Integrations specialists

• Set KPA for Integration team

• Help set and implement an integration strategy for the company

• Support management to create a high functioning, high delivery team

• Data mapping and development using XML / XSLT

• Providing creative and constructive feedback to other team members to improve products and processes, and to create new products and processes

• Consulting with customers to define integration architectures, solutions and requirements (sometimes required to assist the BA)

• Customer Integration (Development, Configuration and Installation)

• Customer Support (third line support)

• Creating custom component for existing external and internal frameworks

• Troubleshooting and detailed problem analysis

• Providing professional services to the best of his/her abilities and acting and behaving in a professional manner in all dealings relating to the Company

• Work within most aspects of the software development life cycle including requirements definition, functional and technical design, configuration, scripting, integration, data transformation and manipulation, testing and documentation.

• Understanding data integration-based practices, tools and technologies, security in the environment, data warehousing and dimensional modelling concepts and performance tuning.

• Workflow design, development, configuration, testing and implementation.

• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.

• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.

• Guiding/supervising implementation and development of the integration layer and ensuring that all services required are developed and end to end integration of applications is achieved.

• Perform code review and testing of other integration engineers and developers’ projects and changes.

Additional Responsibilities: 

• Becoming skilled on the company’s various integration platforms.

• Working with clients and team members to scope and successfully implement integration solutions.

• Extending skills to include a broad technology focus.

• Keeping up to date with the latest development technologies available.

• MQ, ESB and SOA related technologies.

• Support of developed/deployed solutions.

• Quality focus on building bug free/testable solutions.

• Reusable code/solutions.

• Personal Project Management/Time Management,  Personal project management of assigned projects within agreed time and resource constraints

Skills Requirements:

• Possess significant knowledge of XSLT, XML, XSD, JSON, JMS or similar Messaging Framework

• Proficiency in communication methods including but not limited to: FTP, SFTP, REST, SOAP and Sonic MQ.

• Data modelling and mapping, using user defined functions and XSLT mappings.

• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

• Understand complex IT systems and concepts as well as the implications of changes, upgrades and new project implementations.

• Seek and participate in development opportunities above and beyond required training.

• Actively contribute to corporate knowledge base.

• Working knowledge of version control systems.

• Experience with relational database systems including SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle.

• Ability to write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.

• Knowledge of software methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall).

• Ability to complete moderately complex bug fixes.

• Excellent general problem-solving ability and attention to detail.

• Working knowledge of both Windows and Linux operating systems.

• Working knowledge of Java.

Qualifications and Work Experience:

The successful candidate should have the following qualifications and experience:

• IT Degree, IT Diploma, COBIT, ITIL and TOGAF certification or other relevant qualification

• Minimum of 3 years relevant IT industry experience

• Must have SQL RDBMS and ETL experience

• Experience with the development of large-scale systems integration solutions

• 1+ years in general database development

• 4+ years of equivalent experience implementing integration services

• NET, C#, Java development language experience (advantageous)

• IEEE Certified Software Development Associate or Professional accreditation (advantageous)

Personal Profile:

• Excellent written and verbal communication, with good command of the English language.

• Flexible, team player, "get-it-done" personality.

• Able to seek and evaluate information from a variety of divisions, departments, services and business services teams.

• Ability to organize and plan work independently.

• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.

• Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and teams.

• Problem solving, analytical and communication abilities.

• Excellent planning/organisational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.

• Adaptable, positive and innovative.

• Ability to work in a team as well as independently.

• The ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.

• Ability to work overtime when required to do so.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact [email protected] or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on  1.855.833.5120.