RQ09254 - Middleware Specialist - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provide planning consulting technical analysis design deployment development testing implementation maintenance upgrades and daily support of middleware products
  

General Skills:

• Experience with web and applications tier servers
  
• Experience with message brokers
  
• Experience with messaging services
  
• Experience with adapters
  
• Experience with development framework/technologies
  
• Experience in middleware software installation configuration tuning system optimization and administration as well as experience with application development
  
• Experience with change management and release management as processes supporting the implementation of large applications
  
• Experience with incident and problem management processes
  
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design development implementation and maintenance of applications
  
• Experience producing design artefacts code configurations scripts and test cases
  
• Ability to analyze the results from functional security loadandstress testing and resolve reported issues
  
• Ability to analyze and solve data integrity security configuration and recovery issues
  
• Assess and test Change Requests (CRQ) with technical content and updating as necessary
  
• Ability to participate in release promotions/implementations
  
• Experience with middleware and gateways
  
• Experience on application monitoring and support
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and
  
• Knowledge of portal services
  
• Knowledge of GOPKI Security or similar public/private key Infrastructure
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  
• Experience conducting system and application monitoring and performance and data integrity in accordance with ITIL standards
  
• Experience sustaining large application implementations based on the following technology products:
  

• Windows Internet Information Server (IIS)
  
• IBM HTTP Server Apache
  
• IBM WebSphere
  
• IBM Cognos Analytics
  
• IBM Business Automation Workflow
  
• Oracle Database 19c (and later)
  
• Oracle Director Server Enterprise Edition
  
• Oracle Siebel
  
• Oracle Identity Manager / Oracle Internet Directory
  
• Oracle Analytics Server
  
• Oracle Intelligent Advisor
  
• Informatica PowerCentre
  
• CTRLM Workload Automation
  
• Nagios Prometheus DynaTrace Grafana SiteScope and other monitoring tools
  
• ElasticSearch Logstash Kibana
  
• Solaris Windows AIX and Linux (e.g. Red Hat Ent Linux)
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 8 years experience with COTS based Business Automation and Case Management solutions (ie: IBM Cloud Pack for Business Automation)
  
• 8 years experience with business process management and case management automation software suites
  
• Experience in structured agile and DevOp methodologies for the development design implementation and maintenance of applications.
  
• Integration of service API s and microservices to existing or new web services.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Technical Skills:

• 8 years experience with COTS based Business Automation and Case Management solutions (ie: IBM Cloud Pack for Business Automation)
  
• 8 years experience with business process management and case management automation software suites
  
• 7 years experience in Java based development utilizing a combination of WebSphere JDBC Oracle DB2 DataPower and associated Web technologies including JavaScript and JSP
  
• 5 years experience in integration of Open Source Software (OSS) products into new and existing systems
  
• Experience in development and design of new midtier applications or enhancement to existing ones in a DevOPS focused environment
  
• Preparation of automated deployment builds (Jenkins)
  
• Experience in structured agile and DevOp methodologies for the development design implementation and maintenance of applications.
  
• Experience with one or more platforms including the operating system database technology communication protocols middleware and gateways
  
• Experience developing or maintaining large scale IT systems including highvolume public facing programs
  
• Development and design of new programs or enhancements to existing ones
  
• Integration of service API s and microservices to existing or new web services.
  
• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements and to design structured programs that efficiently satisfy these requirements
  
• Ability to write programs that are modular wellstructured and easy to maintain
  
• Demonstrated success writing system design and implementation documents
  
• Experience with and understanding of relational databases (DB2 Oracle MSSQL)
  
• Preparation of test plans test data and unittesting of programs
  
• Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of modules
  
• Participate in business requirements walkthroughs
  
• Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs
  
• Conduct/participate in testing walkthroughs
  

Analytical Skills:

• Analysis of business requirement documents and liaison with clients
  
• Experience adopting and adhering to unified I&IT project management methodologies (waterfall agile and DevOps) enterprise architecture and gating frameworks and standard systems development methodologies.
  
• Respond to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents with proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience
  

Communications Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
  
• Strong Interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  
• Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders.
  
• A demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
  
• Demonstrated success in working productively with business clients developers and technical specialists such as DBAs web administrators etc.