Job Opportunities at Co-operative Bank of Kenya

Responsibilities for the Middleware/ESB Integrations Developer Job

• Analyze requests obtained from business to determine operational problems, define integration requirements, advice best way for integration and document the same.
• Develop new and manage existing ESB integrations depending on the need and requirements.
• Develop polices and processes around ESB systems, defining and executing lifecycle management compliance checkpoints and reviews, assistance with technology management of Service Oriented Infrastructure and ESB systems support for development, production and management of Middleware implementation.
• Develop and maintain SOA reference architecture and assist in the management of the Universal Description,
• Discovery and Integration (UDDI) services catalog, SOAP and REST, Web-services, and Web Services
• Description Language (WSDL) to streamline the process of managing the Middleware system uptime while ensuring optimum performance and efficient web services delivery through the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as part of the bank’s operating model.
• Support the UDDI services catalog in the development and management of ESB toolkits, reference architectures, and in the integration and deployment of Web Services provided by other vendors into the ESB.
• Provide hands on Performance Management of the SOA ESB products from TIBCO (TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS), TIBCO Business Works, Rendezvous (RV), TIBCO Hawk and TIBCO Spotfire) including WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere MQ and Oracle Tuxedo in development, test and production environments.
• Mentor and guide other developers on the implementation of web services to optimize resource utilization and also carry out technical user training as required to enable users interpret the reports.
• Provide test interfaces for users before go-live at the same time work with other vendors to configure and support middlware systems internally.
• Develop and maintain documentation/manuals on system configuration or setup.

Qualifications for the Middleware/ESB Integrations Developer Job

The successful jobholder will be required to possess the following qualifications: –

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software and Electronics Engineering, IT or related field from a recognized university.
• At least 2 years’ experience in implementing and supporting TIBCO products, Web-services, load balancing and ESB implementation in development, test and production environment.
• Knowledgeable in the Integration to other supporting systems (database, OS and networks) and skilled in configuration and deployment of TIBCO components.
• A broad and deep understanding of web services automation implementation and support of SOA best practices in agile banking environments.
• Experience in performance monitoring, load balancing, performance tuning/optimization, load testing, management of middleware systems and must be able to independently carry out these functions including capacity planning in TIBCO ESB products environments.
• Excellent understanding of programming languages and other programming tools particularly J2EE, XML.
• Strong analytical, presentation and troubleshooting skills with the ability to work through own initiative and as part of a team.
• Good knowledge and skills in configuration and deployment of TIBCO components.