Integration Engineer at Proagrica

Integration Engineer – Proagrica SA (Fourways, Johannesburg) 

Ref. R9935

Proagrica, part of Reed Business Information (RBI). We are the trusted partner for global agriculture and animal health. Through our integrated network, workflow solutions and actionable insights, our customers are better connected to make more informed decisions, growing productivity and profitability 

Summary

• The job holder’s primary responsibilities will be to perform expert technical work on integration and development projects
• They will also be responsible for designing and developing new integration solutions or making enhancements to existing solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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 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 as part of troubleshooting with other integration engineers and developers

Additional Responsibilities

• Becoming skilled on the company’s various integration platforms
• Working with clients and team members to scope and successfully implement of integration solutions
•  Identifying and advising clients of additional solutions and benefits to be achieved
• 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

Required Skills & Experience

• 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