Integration Architect

Job Description Summary

Design and implement integration components like micro services. Manage Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing. Modernise and optimise the integration components while also delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives. This role includes technical, financial and resource development. Develop and promote IT and business partner relationships.

Collaborate in improving current integration technologies to be cloud-ready and continuously research, develop and implement cloud technologies.

Job Description

• Design and implement information systems and solutions to meet business needs and to support the enterprise infrastructure.
• Develop and regularly maintain future state integration designs and patterns in line with the organisations business and IT strategies as well as the roadmap for transforming between current and future infrastructure vision.
• Adopting a Cloud First Integration Architecture approach
• Define integration patterns, architecture standards, and reusable frameworks.
• Lead the development and implementation of APIs, microservices, and ESB solutions.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams to align integration architecture.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development and integration teams.
• Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot integration issues, and optimize system performance.
• Document architecture designs and maintain architectural governance.
• Designing the integration cloud environment from a holistic point of view, ensuring it meets all of the company's requirements
• Carrying out deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management tasks within this implemented cloud structure.
• Overseeing cloud security as prescribed by IT security
• Ensure group alignment on Cloud and Integration Strategies.
• Lead and perform stakeholder management associated and affected by the new and existing integration solutions/platforms.
• Maintain and analyse internal records of problem causes and resolutions, identify problems and modify the resolution actions to prevent recurrence.
• Develop solid integration architectural plans and deployment architectures for application development and infrastructure projects.
• Provide input into technical direction decisions in the area of infrastructure/application architecture.
• Maximise the use and re-use of integration standards and patterns that is already in place by determining to what extent parts of solutions already exist when new solutions are defined.
• Ensure that sustainability and impact of the administration of integration solutions are understood and taken into account when technical solutions are proposed.
• Develop and implement IT innovations or methodologies that achieve efficiencies and reduce costs based on time, risk and process.
• Identify new industry trends, products, technologies, practices and processes by selecting and using appropriate sources of information.
• Design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, and scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs.
• Perform the administration of technical solutions according to the agreed plans and processes and propose continuous enhancements to these processes where applicable.
• Ensure that solutions are built using the agreed tools, frameworks, processes and architectural principles.
• Develop and execute test plans to check integration and system inter-dependencies, technical performance, and functionality including post-production operational monitoring.
• Develop appropriate disaster recovery plans for critical business systems, including working with infrastructure, development and business teams to produce and sustain practical solutions.
• Lead, develop and implement Micro services with experience using JAX-RS and related technologies
• Object-Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Class loading, Memory Management, Transaction management)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2)
• Analyse and improve existing infrastructure and technology stack

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• TOGAF
• 8–12 years of experience in enterprise application and middleware integration.
• 8 – 10 years' experience in IT Integration implementation and support within the Insurance industry.
• 5-8 years of Java and J2EE/Java EE (including servlets, JSP, JSF, JDBC)
• Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes).
• 5+ years web application experience in developing customer facing high scale applications
• 5+ years building Micro services
• 5+ years building REST and SOAP web services using Java
• 5+ years SQL tuning, query optimization and capability to understand the complex queries.
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread safe code
• Solid understanding of JMS and related queueing technologies
• Experience with development tools like Eclipse, Git, SVN, Maven, Sonar, Jenkins, Jira
• Experience using and deploying to Enterprise Application Servers like Oracle Weblogic, Wildfly, IBM Websphere
• Strong Project and People Management skills
• Quality Assurance
• Documentation Control
• Knowledge of Security best Practices
• Scrum of Agile Methogologies Experience
• API Gateway knowledge