Backend Integration Consultant (Contract) – Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office rotation – ISB5201770
Location | Midrand-Menlyn-Rosslyn-Home-Office-rotation, South Africa |
Date Posted | October 5, 2022 |
Category |
IT / Information Technology
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Job Type |
Full-time
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Currency | ZAR |
Description
Our client requires the services of a Operations Consultant
POSITION: Contract until December 2022 (possible renewals)
COMMENCEMENT: ASAP
Duties & Responsibilities
Role
- The Group operates and maintains global services for integration solutions. This includes the messaging service based on IBM MQ to connect business applications and EAI brokers based on IIB/ACE. The service includes managing systems for monitoring, automation and customer self-services and interacts with central services like security, configuration management, compute etc. that are provided by interface partners.
- As IT Specialist Backend Integration, you are refining our MQ and/or EAI infrastructure service, adapting it to new requirements, steering the operations and maintenance provider and translating requirements into work packages/user stories that can be passed on to the provider. Furthermore, you are supporting the product architecture and security team with service- related topics.
- You are strong in communicating within international teams and large organizations, driving topics to a successful end using agile methodology.
Desired Experience & Qualification
Requirements
- 5 to 7 years of proven industry experience in information technology or related subjects
- Agile working experience advantageous
- Relevant IT / Business Degree
Technical/Functional Requirements
Knowledge and experience in at least 2 of the following core technologies:
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- MOM / Message oriented middleware based on IBM MQ
- EAI / enterprise application integration based on IIB/ACE
- Java application development and maintenance
Additional skills that are beneficial:
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- CI/CD pipeline
- Kubernetes / container management
- Public cloud providers (AWS/Azure)
- Linux Shell (bash)
- Service automation with Rundeck
- Interface technologies (ODBC/JDBC, SAP JCO, SOAP/REST)
- Mainframe technology (MQ on z/OS)
- Knowledge in IT security
- Knowledge in ITIL processes
- Experience in agile methods and tools
- Excellent communication skills with emphasis on English
- Ability to handle concurrent tasks
- Ability to steer and manage offshore provider teams
- Ability to understand and analyze requirements and problems quickly
- Applies advanced knowledge of area
- Managing projects / processes
- IT project management experience.
- Teamwork and communication skills.
- Assertiveness.
- Analytical thinking.
- Independent way of working.
- Knowledge in IT security
- Knowledge in ITIL processes
- Excellent communication skills with emphasis on English
- Ability to handle concurrent tasks
- Ability to steer and manage provider teams
- Ability to understand new topics quickly
- High quality awareness
- Self-dependent and goal-oriented thinking and acting
- Intercultural collaboration
- Understanding of integration between different technologies
- Coordination between development and support environments
- Assisting with the business case
- Planning and monitoring
- Eliciting requirements
- Requirement’s organisation
- Translating and simplifying requirements
- Requirements management and communication
- Requirement’s analysis
- Document requirements in appropriate format depending on methodology followed
Assist with identification and management of risks