Job Description:

About the Job

The Integration Specialist works with and manages the bank’s integration components, ensuring the smooth and efficient exchange of data between systems and the delivery of high-quality integration services. This role requires extensive experience in various integration services and technologies, with an emphasis on emerging and modern integration services. The job holder will be responsible for proactively reviewing the existing landscape and implementing measures to improve availability and throughput as per Service Level Objectives.

Responsibilities

Work with the technology integration teams to provide exceptional integration support.
Develop and maintain processes and procedures for the support and maintenance of the bank’s integration components.
Develop and maintain the bank’s technical documentation and procedures for integration support.
Collaborate with the bank’s technology and operations teams, development teams, architecture team, and channel support to ensure the smooth and efficient exchange of data between systems.
Ensure all integration components follow relevant regulations and standards, including cybersecurity and data privacy requirements.
Manage vendor relationships for integration components, negotiating service agreements and ensuring vendor performance meets the bank’s expectations.
Conduct regular preventive maintenance checks and routine health checks on integration components and implement observability of the integration landscape, putting in place a mechanism to proactively identify and escalate exceptions.
Develop and implement plans to upgrade and modernize the bank’s integration infrastructure, including the transition to an enterprise-grade design with practices built in to ensure operational efficiency.
Work collaboratively with other support teams to troubleshoot integration platforms, server performance issues, and tune the environment based on findings to achieve desired outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree IT/Computer Science or related field.
Professional Qualifications: Any Middleware/integration training/certification.
Master’s Degree: Technical or Business Related.
5 years progressive experience in Information Technology.
3 years’ experience in technical knowledge in specialty area Redhat Integrations, [ESB – SOA and web services concepts] and integration technologies coupled with complementary areas of knowledge.
2 years’ experience in strong fundamental knowledge agile, DevSecOps, and CI/CD automation tools such as Jenkins, JMeter, Git, Stash, SonarQube, GitOps.
2 years’ experience with messaging systems, preferably RedHat MQ, AMQ, IBM MQ and messaging concepts and technologies.
2 years’ RDBMS experience working with large and high-performance databases such as Oracle, Mongo DB etc.
2 years’ experience knowledge of Java, J2EE, XML, Redhat OpenShift.
2 years’ experience in proficient in scripting.