Senior Integration Developer at The 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 and team utilities applications.

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

• To act as 1st line support for Web Service & Data Flows Integrations
• To troubleshoot errors and investigate queries in the integration systems
• To manage & action assigned incidents and requests
• Capture & Review SOA governance information in an 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, Postman etc)
• Develop Broadcom Layer7 service policies and configurations
• Develop Message Flows e.g. for IBM Integration Bus Applications
• Develop cloud solutions & applications i.e. AWS, AZURE, Google

3. Troubleshooting and Identifying root cause:

• 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 queries 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 setup 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 3rd party integrations

8. Mentoring junior developers

• To assist in the mentoring of the junior developers in the team
• Code reviews and guidance on best practices

9. Publishing documentation

• Assist in defining and publishing standards
• General documentation (knowledge sharing, tips, best practices)

Qualifications    

• Matric / Grade 12
• IT-related tertiary qualification

Experience    

• Minimum 5 years of SQL competency writing queries and developing stored procedures
• Minimum 5 years (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML, ODATA, OAUTH, WADL, WSDL)
• Minimum 5 years Java EE
• Minimum 5 years Web Development, Performed support function and Software Design Patterns
• Minimum 5 years Software development (Java, C#/.NET, SDLC etc.)
• Minimum 3 years Cyber Security and Secure
• SDLC(OWASP, NIST, CIS, PCI DSS)

Knowledge and Skills    

• Software Development
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Production Systems Support(DevOps)
• Enterprise Integration
• Cloud Operations