System Integrator at Companies & Intellectual Property Commission

Key performance areas:

• Planning, coordinating and overseeing activities related to integration of software programs and applications into the organization's information systems;
• Responsible for ensuring that the technical architecture is followed and that services necessary to meet the changing needs of the organization are implemented and maintained;
• Provide Input to the “blueprint” or technology architecture that drives the other services;
• Support the planning, implementation and maintenance of distributed internet architecture;
• Work with the Application Development Services and other Infrastructure Services groups to plan and execute integration strategies necessary for the integration of information or functions between key application services and systems;
• Support the integration strategy for the organization’s applications.
• Support of the performance monitoring of application platforms including the physical platforms and the services that support those applications. Technologies include Informix, Oracle, Microsoft and UNIX variants.
• Responsible for assessing and supporting the implementation of packaged application solutions.
• Liaison between the infrastructure, the data and the applications groups, supporting team dynamics through which the developers, infrastructure staff and network engineers can effectively communicate.

Requirements

Required minimum education/training:

• National Diploma in Information Technology (Software development) OR Computer Science Degree OR equivalent.

Required minimum work experience:

• 2 – 5 years’ experience in systems design, and/or software design desired.
• Experience in web applications support and maintenance, directing and evaluating complex operations
• Experience in the support of planning, directing and evaluating complex operations to accomplish long-term and short-term goals of the Business.
• Success in implementing real-time application and technology performance management solutions.
• Experience in code review, source code collaborative tools i.e. TFS and GitHub.
• Architecture analysis, Integration problem analysis and SQL queries.

A working knowledge of/experience with:

• A strong experience in Secured RESTful API, Web Services and Oracle REST Services Data Services.
• Payment gateway integration: new developments, applications maintenance and applications support.
• Database technologies (Oracle, MS SQL, Informix);
• SSRS reports integration.
• Good understanding of web and enterprise applications; Understanding of web & Oriented Architecture technologies and programming languages including .NET, C#.

Added Advantages

• Programming experience with Python.
• Experience in middleware technologies such as IBM MQ WebSphere Messaging Queue advantageous.
• K2 Five and Advanced.
• NET experience advantageous or Java; development/support/operations.
• Good understanding of distributed applications (Applications URL security).
• Integrating networks successfully, by implementing the latest industry codes and processes to negate problematic procedures, different operating systems, different programming languages and outdated legacy systems with no upgrades.
• Understanding of software engineering and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP);
• Understanding of SOLID Principles.