Technology Specialist – Integration

Key Responsibilities

• being an ambassador of the Digital Integration team to promote API-first and event-driven integration strategy
• partnering with architects, product owners and other team members
• actively participating in the intake of new requirements together with product owners, feature leads and product architects, and driving the refinements with the development team
• collaborating with fellow solution architects and SMEs to identify, define and maintain integration standards and best practices
• driving continuous improvement analysis on existing integration solutions and identifying architectural optimizations
• using user and stakeholder feedback to guide the development of new products and integration enhancements
• understanding business needs and collaborating with product architects and functional SMEs to propose and prepare solution designs
• delivering and owning highly scalable, reusable and future-ready integration solution designs aligned with integration architectural guardrails
• verifying the implementation of integration use cases to ensure consistency with the agreed design and requirements
• offering integration developers well-documented integration patterns to ensure high-quality design focused on reusability, scalability and security
• seeking innovation by learning from peer companies and market leaders to improve solution quality and time to market
• collaborating with scrum teams, fellow integration SMEs and architects, while offering coaching in relevant areas
• coordinating with product teams to deliver value through Agile Scrum and actively participating in Scrum events and portfolio ceremonies.

Qualification & Requirements

• bachelor or master’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or IT
• an IT industry recognized certification in the integration domain and architecture is a plus
• 7+ years of professional IT experience and demonstratable 5+ years of hands-on experience in the similar role that dealt with building, deploying, and maintaining enterprise integration solutions, within an international and multi-cultural environment
• 2+ years of work experience in the FMCG industry, as such in the functional domain – Commerce, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, etc.
• demonstratable hands on experience of various integration architecture designs & patterns such as microservices, event based and SOA amongst others
• solution architect level proven experience with MuleSoft and at least one of the following preferred platforms – Boomi, Azure API, SAP PO, SAP CPI, AWS, or similar industry leading platforms, both on premise and on cloud
• solid understanding of and exposure to the technical specifics on integration standard (XML, IDOC, JSON, PROXY, OAS) and concepts – event brokers, event driven architecture, data virtualization
• preferable experience in middleware monitoring solutions (e.g. Splunk, NewRelic, ELK stack)
• expert level ability to visualize and create high-level models to visualize how the business requirements will be translated into integration solutions; DFDs and business process diagrams
• ability to drive decisions and recommendation about which integration approach and patterns to use while leveraging existing and new technologies within the Digital Integration area
• agile mindset and practical experience in Agile delivery, Scrum experience is plus
• experience of working in a value and time driven environment with rapid release cycles and can deal with (occasionally) changing priorities
• demonstrate end-to-end ownership of work that you do, while dealing with some uncertainty in requirements & features to deliver MVP solutions
• reasonable knowledge and experience of DevOps and quality engineering, CI-CD pipelines, coding best practices and using tools such as – SonarQube, ELK stack, Azure DevOps, Splunk
• excellent communication skills (verbal and written), being able to translate technical language into a story that can be understood by less technical people and at different levels of seniority
• ability to work effectively with people of different cultures and backgrounds and at all levels of a product team, with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
• ability to identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and “truths”, build on the views of others while positively challenging them.

Benefits

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