Enterprise Middleware Support Engineer at Equity Bank Kenya

Description

• This is a technical role with emphasis on integration technologies. In this role you will assist in the design, development, configuration, integration, implementation, support and maintenance of solutions for business and technical projects of small to large level of complexity. You will ensure integration solutions are based on enterprise middleware architectural standards, and are in alignment with enterprise integration strategy. The enterprise Middleware integration engineer will have indepth knowledge of the follwoing technologies and standards as used within the Enterprise Integration Team(includes those currently in use, and any that expands/replaces): Oracle/WebLogic, JBoss, WS02, APIs - Linux operationg systems and others as needed. Must have the ability to work with multi-disciplinary cross-funtional teams with members of different technical skills including XML and JSON encoding – MS SQL/Oracle database

Qualifications
 
Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

• Collaborate solutions with functional requirements from a business analyst, and strong grasp of technical capabilities of integration software, APIs and other systems including core banking.
• Develop code and Interfaces in WS02, Oracle APIs, SOA and BPEL
• Estimate efforts and work in a structured manner leveraging design patterns and code recipes
• Support applications team in their system implementations and ongoing requests
• Assist in troubleshooting and root cause analysis for environmental issues as they arise.
• Communicate with development manager and other IT leadership team members about production roll-outs and issues
• Ongoing continuous improvement for service availability and uptime
• Maintenance and management of the middleware environment including installation, performance tuning, patching, and vulnerability remediation
• Migration and upgrade of existing platforms to desired environment as per the software life cycle management

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or similar discipline.
• 4+ years experience in Software Implementation and Integration that includes Architecture, Analysis, Design and Development..
• Experience managing operational requirements such as patching, capacity planning, security vulnerability remediation, DR execution, access reviews, audit compliance and change management.
• Expertise in middleware tools such as Oracle SOA, Oracle OSB, BPEL, 12C experience.
• Expertise in designing and building BPEL workflows using JDeveloper 12c.
• Expertise in using SOA technology adapters such as Web Services Adapter, REST Adapter, Database Adapter, EBS Adapter, JMS Adapter and File Adapter for integration and development of custom business processes, service components using Oracle BPEL.
• Experience in development of complex Data Structures (XSD and XML)
• Experience in development of medium to complex integration mapping using XSL, XLST technology.
• Experience in designing robust error handling, auditing and logging frameworks.
• Testing integration interfaces using SOAUP UI and other testing tools.
• Experience in SQL and PL/SQL programming.
• Experience in writing technical design documents and operational guides.
• Experience with UNIX systems (Solaris and Linux), Shell scripting.
• Good knowledge in configuration, Parameter Tuning, Performance monitoring and troubleshooting of Oracle SOA and OSB 12c.
• Experience in configuring WebLogic admin console and Enterprise management console.
• Experience with Oracle high-availability environment.
• Experience as WebLogic Administrator with knowledge in clustering, JMS, Connection Pools, J2EE Deployments, Thread Dump Analysis