Specialist: IT Developer Integration Manager at BCX

Core Description
The main purpose of this position is to Design, Develop and Support Integration Solutions using Primarily the Tibco stack of Integration tools. Additional resposibilities include providing Technical assistance to Production and Testing support teams, participating in internal initiatives like continous improvement programs and performing limited after hours work where required.
Being a senior role, responsibilities also extend to mentoring junior team members, assisting in analysing and improving internal procedures and processes and taking responsibility on a technical level for complex integration solutions.

Key Deliverables / Primary Functions

• Develop and test Integration functional designs for business solution components and prototypes 
• Review integration functional designs to ensure that they conform to "as-designed integration architecture".
• Supervise Integration processes and functional design activities
• Supervise integration application build, test, and deploy activities 
• Produce specifications, architectural designs, interface specifications Interact with users to understand integration requirements underpinning application requirements
• Ensure provision of technical support through the project life cycle
• Functional Skills
• Incident Management
• General Consulting Skills
• Project Management
• Risk Management
• Integration Best Practices
• Data Communications Protocols/ Technologies including HTTP, JMS, EJB, SOAP REST etc.
• Service Oriented Architecture principles
• Strong mastery of the Java J2EE development framework.
• Core Technologies such as XML and XML Schema, Web Services, JSON etc
• Understanding and proficiency in RESTFul architecture principles.
• Understanding of B2B and API integration principles
• Integration Strategy

Behavioural Competencies

• Job Match
• Developing and implementing account plan or strategy
• Meeting customer expectations
• People / Team Leadership
• Decision Making
• Communication and Impact

Qualifications

• NQF 6: 3 year Degree/ Diploma/ National Diploma in Information Technology

Experience

• At least 5 years experience as a Java developer.
• 3 years relevant Development experience on the TIBCO software stack preferable.

Certifications / Professional Registration

• None

Special Requirements/ Employment Condition

• Valid Drivers license

Work Characteristics

• Client Based Position
• Billable