Integrations Engineer at Believe Resourcing

About The Role

• As an IT’s integration team member, an integration engineer is a motivated person focused on working hand-in-hand with other technical support, application support, development support, implementation, business, and service teams. You will develop integrations supporting the business capabilities that provide core functionality in running the client business. You will analyze business requirements and ensure that implemented integrations (services and workflows) are effectively integrated into the current technology ecosystem. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving problems and helping development teams become more productive. This position is for you if you enjoy delivering professional working solutions, taking pride in the quality of the solutions you provide and maintain while having fun and being balanced.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain APIs.
• Design and develop with support and reusability in mind.
• Responsible for supporting and maintaining Middleware technology (WSO2) and integrated components in test and production environments.
• Support quality assurance (automated testing and supporting user testing when required).
• Participate during all stages of the software development life-cycle.
• Deploy, test, and maintain integration pipelines for workflows and services using CI/CD
• Improve and streamline processes (including application testing, deployment, and monitoring).
• Help with day-to-day queries from clients and Pepkor IT teams.
• Collaborate with the development teams on the integration middleware platform and provide recommendations and guidance on integration solutions.
• First level of support for all integration issues and manage incident resolution and problem management.
• Analyse the environment to detect deficiencies and recommend solutions for continuous improvement.
• Create detailed technical documentation.

Key Competencies And Qualifications

• Previous working experience as an Integration Engineer for 3+ years.
• 2-3 years of Java coding experience.
• Good understanding of industry standards technical adapters like SOAP, REST, FTP, etc.. and hands-on experience in XML, XSD, WSDL, JavaScript.
• Good SOA architecture understanding. Hands-on experience designing and developing inbound and outbound integration interfaces with API Web services (REST and SOAP service development skills).
• Knowledge and experience with XML-related technologies (XML, XSD, XPATH, XSLT)
• Knowledge and experience in HTTP, REST, SOAP, and JSON technologies
• Knowledge and experience with Software Version Control systems: GIT, SVN etc.
• Knowledge and experience in API lifecycle management (WSO2 API Manager or Mulesoft Anypoint platform or Google Apgiee)
• Knowledge of Integration frameworks offered by SaaS applications.
• Understanding of integration Security.
• Good analytical and debugging skills.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimum supervision
• Solid understanding of synchronous vs asynchronous messaging
• Strong leadership & mentoring skills
• Influential
• Ability to handle stressful situations

Not Required, But Nice To Have

• Experience development using Spring Boot, Java Streams, Spring Integration, Java Generics, JUnit, Maven, Message Queues (AMQP), and JPA/Hibernate
• Experience using version control systems, such as GIT
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform and G-Suite
• Knowledge of the use of container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of the ELK stack (Elastic Search/Kibana)
• Knowledge and experience in databases (SQL)
• Exposure to Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM and KANBAN

Desired Skills and Experience

• Java